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Looking for a fresh perspective on conflict resolution? In this episode we journey through the intricate dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, avoiding the political blame game, and instead focus on the consciousness that kindles such disputes. We discuss how purging fear and steering our emotions can be instrumental in nurturing real, lasting change. By examining the conflict through a metaphysical lens, we hope to inspire you to consider your role in fostering global harmony.
The next part of our voyage focuses on trauma and how our emotional responses shape the outcomes of conflicts. By elevating our emotional intelligence, we can respond to such situations with compassion, rather than primal anger. We examine the possibilities of reacting to the current tensions in the Middle East with empathy, thus playing a part in promoting peace in the region. The key is understanding that our emotions drive our actions, and managing them effectively can alter the trajectory of conflicts.
Lastly, we reflect on the lessons from the discussion and emphasize the importance of thoughtful action. We dive into the power of spiritual approach in dealing with geopolitical situations, such as the Middle East conflict. We consider the deep-seated emotions that fuel these disputes and how addressing them is a crucial step towards resolution. Our aim is to inspire you to join us in envisioning a world where love and empathy eclipse anger and fear, ultimately fostering a more peaceful world. So, welcome aboard as we navigate this enlightening journey together.
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What We Explored This Episode
01:27 - Approaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Metaphysically
04:09 - Belief Systems and Thought Alignment
08:13 - Creating New Experiences Through Changed Perspective
13:49 - The Power of Pausing
22:33 - Creating Peace Through Changed Minds
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"Let’s go beyond the blame game and political one-upmanship to uncover the untapped power of personal transformation and spirituality."
"You cannot create a solution from the same consciousness that created it. Thoughts produce emotions, and emotions inform action."
"You really can create a change in the world if you soften your own heart and you put love and attention and completion towards a situation that is in the process of unfolding."
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Hey, it's David. Welcome back to A Changed Mind, a place where I will remind you each and every day of the certainty of the good in the future, a sanctuary for your human spirit. I'm your friend, your host, your guide. I don't know, dude, trying to make the world a better place. David Baer, I'm so grateful that you're here today. I'm gonna be talking about a difficult topic to discuss, which is what we're seeing right now in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I'll admit I have my own anxieties about talking about this because it's such a sensitive issue and it's so complex, but I have been asked by a number of people in our community, maybe you, to give my thoughts on what we can do as individuals to support the resolution conflict and how to be thinking about this conflict that's taking place in the Holy Land and a part of the world where the new consciousness was born through great teachers and a multi-generational, thousands of years, really, conflict between people where it just seems like nobody's right and everybody's wrong or everybody's right and nobody's wrong. I'm gonna be breaking that down for you today and I'm gonna be approaching this conversation just like I did on the last episode, through a metaphysical lens. And if you haven't listened to the last episode where I talked about the metaphysical approach to observing totalitarian control in the world, where I talked about what we can actually do to change the world, where I talked about how really the only solution is to purge ourselves of fear and we will become the instrument of spirit and world view, which will create a changed world. I highly recommend you listen to that episode. In my opinion, it's the most powerful episode I've recorded. This episode is gonna be had through that conversation as well. So it's not making a judgment around who's right or who's wrong. I am not a historical expert on a Palestinian-Israeli relationship, to be clear. I know that this goes back to the 40s, after World War II, where there were portions of that region that I believe under British dictate were given Jews as a homeland, became modern state of Israel and then there were a variety of changes over the last 60, 70 years, place in terms of land redistribution. What I wanna speak to is how we create change. And frankly, this may not be a very long conversation because the solution is so obvious, so simple, but oftentimes so difficult. Einstein said that you cannot create a solution from the same consciousness. And I think that the conflicts that we've been seeing between the Palestinians and the Israelis are a wonderful example. You cannot react from a place of anger and expect to do anything other than perpetuate a cycle of anger. And I'll give you an example of what I mean by it. We talk about this as a psycho-cybernetic loop, that we have belief systems. We all believe certain things. The people of Israel, although they may vary in their beliefs, right? Certainly the government has a killer belief system right now that they are Akpan. The Palestinians or Hamas have a particular, and I'm not associating to, by the way, I'm just saying different groups of people have different belief systems. And the way that the human being operating system works is that whatever it is that we believe, we have thought only in alignment with those beliefs. I taught this back, episode number two, where I provided fundamentals of understanding human evolution, personal growth 2.0. And I taught something called the five primary driver. It says that whatever it is you believe, you're gonna think, thought in alignment with the belief moment by moment. And so, for example, if you look at our own individual lives, many people have financial security. They have limited beliefs about money because they observe money struggles with their parents. Some people call it money trauma. But you may have a belief, for example, that money is hard. So if you have a belief that money is hard to make, you're only gonna have thought on a moment by moment basis that are in alignment with money being hard to make. And you're not gonna have thought that are in alignment with money being easy to make. Your thoughts, when you have, they're actually an electrical activation within the neural networks of your brain. They send signals to the rest of your body and your nervous system. So what you experience as a thought in your head, you experience as an emotion in your body. And so, for example, if you're having thoughts of financial insecurity that you're not gonna be able to pay your rent by the end of the month, then you're gonna experience some sort of stress or anxiety or overwhelmed fear. Thoughts produce emotions. Emotions inform action. So the action that you do or do not take is gonna be based on the emotion that you're experiencing. Kind of think about emotion as a quality of fuel in the engine of car, right, which is you. And then, boom, you take action based on what you're putting in tank. And so if you're putting things in, like anxiety and overwhelm and stress and fear, you're certainly not gonna be taking creative, inspired, abundant, producing, or orient action. And then your actions produce your result. And so the result is that you get to the end of the month. Maybe you just scrape by. You're experiencing financial insecurity. Maybe you can't pay your rent. Now you're delinquent on your rent. And then what's interesting is that experience or the result reinforces the original belief. Oh, see, I know money's hard to make and I'm financially incured. But the mistake that we make is thinking that the experience is what's creating these thoughts or emotions in us when in fact the belief is the cause. The experience is the effect through this chain of thoughts, emotions, action, and result. And so metaphysical principles understand that thoughts are things and create our reality. I'm just explaining to you one mechanism by which that happens, which is really an articulation of behavioral psychology. There's another mechanism, which is this vibration in your nervous system as you're experiencing these emotions begins to activate vibration, and energy, and intelligence everywhere. That's how we create synchronicities and coincidences in our life. And that your unconscious mind is also operating according to these belief systems. And so you're making these micro decisions throughout your day and throughout your life that create the fulfillment of your belief system. If it's a limiting belief, it creates what you don't want. If it's a power belief, it creates what you do want. And so that's the external mechanism. But these are metaphysical principles. Napoleon Hill in the bestselling business book of all time called Think and Grow Rich studied the 300 most successful people in the world and came to one conclusion, which was that thoughts are things and they create our reality. And so if we wanna change our reality, the key to it, the opportunity for transformation is when we actually experience something that we don't want that remember has been created out of our own consciousness. It's been created from our own belief system. We have to find a way to react differently to that experience than the reaction that created it. Otherwise we get caught in what's called a psychocybernetic loop and we just keep creating the same experiences over and over and over again, right? So you have to be able to, for example, get to the end of the month, pay your rent check, and rather than say, my God, I barely made it and when am I ever gonna have money and how come other people have money and I don't? You get to the end of the month, you pay your paycheck and you go, wow, abundance flows to me. I experience prosperity, more is on the way. You have to find a way in the midst of the conflict of your own life to think differently about it. Otherwise you will continue to create the same conflicts over and over and over again. And so this is true for our individual lives, but it's also true for the collective experience, for the experience of nations, for the experience of different tribal groups, right? For the experiences of humanity as a whole. What we're experiencing right now in the world is a materialization of what we've been holding in our own consciousness. And so what we're experiencing now in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a materialization of consciousness, right? It is the making matter, the matter-fying, the making physical of that which has been held in thought and emotion form for a long, long time. And in this case, for hundreds, if not thousands of years. And so it's built up a significant amount of momentum. And that's what can become challenging right now, is the momentum that's being built. Because if we were looking at our individual lives, just as we did with the situation with money, or for example, you could take chronic pain. The way that you transform a cycle or a chronic pain loop or an autoimmune condition is to actually experience the chronic pain differently, rather than experiencing the chronic pain, which you've created out of your own consciousness and reacting to it in a way that sounds something like, this is never gonna go away. What if this impacts the rest of my life? How come nobody can find a solution? And instead, you say, I'm gonna allow this discomfort. I know it's uncomfortable, but I know my body is healing. And as I release this dissonant energy from my body, I know that health is on the way. I know that my body can restore itself to health. If you react differently to the experience of that which you have created that you do not like, you can create a different experience in the next go around. So we know this to be true in our own lives. It's very easy. It's the fundamentals of personal growth and human evolution. The idea of a law of attraction as well, right? And metaphysical principles. So how would we apply it to what's happening now in Israel? Well, this is where it gets complex. And I think it's important to articulate, number one, that this is the way. One would respond, or we would want to respond if we wanted to change our circumstances, while also acknowledging, I don't know that I could do it. And so I think in that acknowledgement of how we would be in order for this change, and the difficulty in us being this way, we can actually start to move towards being differently with the solution. It's not gonna be a full spectrum adjustment because it's so challenging. You have Hamas coming across the border and murdering in horrific ways Israeli families. And so there needs to be an acknowledgement for a moment of what that must be like for the Israelis. Simultaneously, as Einstein said, we cannot create a solution from the same consciousness that we started with or something, right? You got to think differently. If the Israelis respond from a place of anger, whatever they do in response is going to simply set out another set of chickens that are gonna come home to roost. It's the fundamental nature of how reality works. These are first principled metaphysical properties. They are the physics of physics. They are the spiritual teachings that, by the way, you can find in the Torah, the Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, they all said basically the same thing, right? And so Christ, for example, articulated it as, when someone strikes you, you have to turn the other cheek. If they take your tunic, also give them your cloak. Because the greatest metaphysician of all time understood that you cannot create something different from a primal reaction, right? From the same emotional state of being that actually created the circumstance in the first. So you say, Dave, like, what do we do? Well, there's a solution, right? You can act with full anger immediately without taking time. And you can do that in your own life too. How well does that work out, right? You take no time to distance yourself from an experience that has triggered you and you react. Well, that is a perfect recipe for just creating more of the identity. Does it require restraint? Of course, again, that's why we have to acknowledge, like, you know, what happened in Israel was horrific. And it requires an incredible amount of restraint in order to respond in the most conscious way possible. Now, the question is whether or not the Israeli people or whether or not the government is willing to express that restraint, right? I mean, that's what leadership comes down. How do you communicate with your people? The one way to communicate is, this is a horrific experience and we're gonna make sure that everybody else suffers from this and do everything we can to squash what happened. Another way is to say, this is absolutely horrific and we need to think about the right type of response. You know, again, you think about the challenge, probably not politically convenient to say something like that. You look at what happened with 9-11 and, you know, part of what drove us into not taking the time and being rational, it drove us into a war that we didn't need to be in, which was Iraq, right? It allows, by the way, other interests that are not noble interests to insert the cell equation as well and make things even more complex. So what do we do? Well, we have to pause. Something happens and we don't respond immediately and we allow ourselves to feel everything that we're feeling from what happened. We allow that emotion process and to metabolize through our nervous system. That's what we do in our own individual lives, right? We are here to actually be metabolizers or digesters of the trauma of the past and to transform that bound primal energy into unbound loving energy. That's our role as spiritual warrior teacher and the reward for that is you get to have an extraordinary life because you're doing the work. So you have to pause. That's the first thing and it's very uncomfortable. It's much angrier, much easier to move into anger and immediate retaliation than it is to sit with true grief and devastation. And so there's a natural human tendency to want to respond. Again, look at our own individual lives. Someone says something to you you don't like, much easier to respond than to sit with what they said and how horrible it was before you responded. Step two is, well, can we elevate the energy? Is there a way that we can respond that is more loving and compassionate than the way that we would have responded if we took no time and no space to feel that, look, I'm not saying I have the solution, but there are ideas. Ideas are free. All ideas are worthless, especially in a situation. But I could certainly imagine a scenario where just as I would do with a friend, leadership in the United States to stand with leadership in Israel and says, hey, we are so sorry that this is horrific, that's devastating. We know what this, we went through something. Now a lot of people are drawing conclusions to the Holocaust. People can get in pairing traumas, just like we do in our, my trauma is bigger than yours. I'm just saying, one idea is we sit down and say, we're gonna support you in making sure that this is addressed properly. And that may be the eradication, but we're gonna need time to work within a global coalition in order to make sure that the Palestinian people, because if you go in and just enact incredible civilian casualties, this problem is gonna go on longer and big than we could have ever imagined, right? Someone needs to come in and be a spokesperson for intelligent, emotional intelligence, metaphysical principle. Hey, if we wanna create something different, we can't just react out of the immediate emotion that invokes in us, because that emotion that it's invoking in us immediately is actually what created this circumstance or situation. First, the accumulation of thousands of years of anger and resentment and separation and trauma has now culminated as a massive boil on the Israeli Gaza border. And we've gotta take a sec before we react to it, process some of this emotion. Otherwise, we're just gonna continue to perpetuate. And so sometimes you need a friend to come in and say that, because you're in the midst of your own crisis. Do we have that type of leadership? I don't know. I don't know what happens in back channel conversations, but it certainly seems to be reactive as well. You're sending over two aircraft carriers and beginning to weaponize the ocean around Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria. I don't know. I don't know that that's the best option for the emotion that are taking place, right? And so what we're looking to do and what we're wanting is to simply elevate our response above and beyond the core emotion that we experience immediately. Because if we're just reactive in the same way, as again, as I said before, it becomes a psychopsychic, it becomes a self. And so you can imagine taking a little bit more time, not backing off of the need to eradicate terrorist element that has proved to be an extraordinary threat to the Israeli people. But doing it in a way that honors the Palestinian people. And having a global conversation where we're able to say yes and. Yes to Israel wanting to retaliate. And yes to the Palestinian people needing to be supported and take care of. No, we can't cut off electrical and water, of over a million people in an area twice the size of Wash Sea. No, we can't from this place of anger go in on a ground before we're able to find a way to care of these refugees. If you displace a people, you will continue to be displaced. If you harm your neighbor, you will continue to be harmed by your neighbor. Whether someone likes it or not, those are fundamental law of how the universe taught to us by the great teacher. There is some irony here as well, right? I mean, we're talking about groups that have devout religious beliefs that are in many ways willing to set those beliefs aside. It's seen and to be overcome by anger, which again is understanding. So, you know, I don't think it's realistic to encourage a turn the other cheek type of bond based on what happened to Israel. But I do think that there's an opportunity for elevating the emotional base of the, through some of the ways that I've talked. You know, you can go in 30 days later and take care of Hamas. You can go in 90 days later and take care of Hamas. I'm not a political expert, but that area seems pretty locked down. I don't think perpetrators are going. And you could put it together a really effective solution. And you could win over the hearts and minds of many Palestinian people who say, oh my God, this horrific thing happened. Israel could have easily come in and just destroyed this entire region, but they operated with love and care and you would activate the love and care within your neighbor. And it would probably spill over into Lebanon, the Syrians, it would affect the hearts, soften the hearts, some of the Hezbollah. This is spiritual approach. This is using a spiritual technology versus a military technology, or at least a yes and to address the situation. What can we do? Well, as individuals who are awakening up to spiritual technology and understanding first principles and metaphysical principles and aligning our thoughts and reaction who we're becoming to that. Teachings tell us that we can hold a vision for this conflict being resolved already. Last night when I went to bed, I imagined street corner with cafe in the Gaza Reef, in Israel, in Lebanon, in Syria, and people enjoying them, having a cup of coffee, talking about anything other than conflicts going on, right? I hold a vision of that entire region being open, integrated, beautiful, where Jews, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, and are all collaborating and working together and sharing their ideas in that area of the world come rich in prosperity and innovation and ideation, where there's an integration of spiritual teachings. People are open-minded, willing to learn from each other because different prophets shared the wisdom in ways, intermarriages between groups of individuals where they never thought that would be possible. That feels good, doesn't it? And so that's the vision that we need to hold. You know, we're aware of problem, but we don't wanna entangle or attribute our energy to it. We wanna use the problem as a reflection to springboard into the vision we have for a desired solution. That's what the challenge is in our life to be. It's not meant for us to sit there and stare at the TV, watching the video footage, horrific events take place in a region. This is one of those things where the information will get to you. You don't have to seek it out, right? It's a big enough situation world. There's a massive trauma that is wanting to be worked out. And so you'll know about it. And now your job is to hold your attention a reality that exists right here, right now of a full resolution and an even more beautiful integration. Cultures and religions and peoples living at peace. And hold that in your mind because anything that you hold in your mind without resistance must find its way interior. It must become a reality. And oftentimes there is a transition from the current state to the desired state that has a lot of bumps, twists and turns and challenges. But the important thing is to hold the vision for what you'd like to see in that area of the world. Do it before you go to bed where you're programming your subconscious mind and your subconscious mind is connected to the clock. Maybe that'll soften some of the hearts in Israel. Maybe that'll soften some of the hearts in Hamas. Maybe that'll soften some of the hearts in the United States government. Maybe that'll soften some of the hearts of Hezbollah. Maybe that'll soften some of the hearts in Iran, right? You really can create a change in the world if you soften your own and you put love and attention and completion toward a situation that is a process. So I hope that's helped for you. I hope it gives you another way of looking at life through this lens of a changed mind. And I hope that we see peace and prosperity in that region of the world as soon as possible. So if you enjoyed this episode, do me a favor, click on that little subscribe button if you're watching on YouTube. Get subscribed to channel, leave a comment or question. I try to read and respond to all of them. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify or your podcast platform, do me a favor, leave me a review. And like I said, if you had not yet checked out the episode from last week where I really break down these metaphysical principles and how we can live powerfully amidst a world that feels like it's chaos, definitely check that episode out. And also, if you're new to the show, check out episode two and episode three. They're really foundational and I think are really good. So until the next episode, I love you, live powerfully, and be certain of the goodness of the future.
