Powerful Encouragement Received Fresh This Morning For Survivors, Thrivers And Lovers Of Life!

This post presumes you are aware -- or at least sense a little bit -- that "things" in the world appear to be heading in the wrong direction. #understatement! ☠️ 🤖

By "wrong," I mean unnatural, unhealthy and unacceptable to the flourishing of genetically-intact life. As a biophiliac, I thankfully have an activated and automatic response of self-protection against predatory things. Vigilance is APPROPRIATE given the current, visible state of appalling affairs.

This morning, I was drenched in the refreshing knowledge that our destinies are defined by the decisions we make about the details of our day, each day.

That means your future is incrementally, actually, ultimately UP TO YOU! 

If you are a very needy and dependent person, that may stress you out.

If you are more of an actualized and self-governed person, that will confirm what you already deeply know. (You're not alone! Hello, there. 👋🏾 )

The video is meant to energize possibility within you!! It had me stompin' and punchin' all over my kitchen. Before you watch it -- can you believe it was released more than two decades ago, in 2001?! -- it is shared with these interpretations:

1. THE SONG LYRICS are catalyzed by a no-good man... but the interpretation I was shown this morning, is to receive the words as if they are singing about no-good "rulers" and NO-GOOD SYSTEMS that you thought you couldn't live without... but actually, cannot live with!!
   
   
2. THE HELICOPTER you hear in the beginning, and see at the end is not an outside entity (religious, political, or otherwise). *IT IS YOUR OWN SELF*. It is your own ingenuity, bravery and resilience that saves you. "Saving" is an inside job. All heroes are within. 👈🏾  Waking up to that and choosing accordingly, is how you "win" the game. Most of life seems to have been organized to keep us too distracted, wounded or stressed-out to initiate our liberation. How will you step into your own heroic activation, if you are expecting the hero to be someone other than you?? Realize it's you, and hear the first lock un-click.🔓 

To receive the fullness of this encouragement, please hear the song with the filter of those two points. Here are the (nearly prophetic) lyrics.:

"SURVIVOR" by Destiny's Child

Now that you're outta my life, I'm so much better
You thought that I'd be weak without ya, but I'm stronger
You thought that I'd be broke without ya, but I'm richer
You thought that I'd be sad without ya, I love harder
You thought I wouldn't grow without ya, now I'm wiser!
You thought that I'd be helpless without ya but I'm smarter
You thought that I'd be stressed without ya, but I'm chillin'
You thought I wouldn't sell without ya, sold nine million

CHORUS:
I'm a survivor (what), I'm not gon' give up (what)
I'm not gon' stop (what), I'm gon' work harder (what)
I'm a survivor (what), I'm gonna make it (what)
I will survive (what), keep on survivin' (what)
I'm a survivor (what), I'm not gon' give up (what)
I'm not gon' stop (what), I'm gon' work harder (what)
I'm a survivor (what), I'm gonna make it (what)
I will survive (what), keep on survivin' (what)

Thought I couldn't breathe without you, I'm inhaling
You thought I couldn't see without you, perfect vision
You thought I couldn't last without you, but I'm lastin'
You thought that I would die without you, but I'm livin'
Thought that I would fail without you, but I'm on top
Thought it would be over by now, but it won't stop
Thought that I would self-destruct, but I'm still here
Even in my years to come, I'm still gon' be here

CHORUS

Wishin' you the best, pray that you are blessed
Much success, no stress, and lots of happiness
(I'm better than that) I'm not gon' blast you on the radio
(I'm better than that) I'm not gon' lie on you and your family, oh
(I'm better than that) I'm not gon' hate on you in the magazines
(I'm better than that) I'm not gon' compromise my Christianity
(I'm better than that) you know I'm not gon' dis you on the internet
'Cause my momma taught me better than that!

CHORUS

Oh (Oh), oh (Oh), oh (Oh), oh (Oh), Oh-oh (Oh-oh)...

After all of the darkness and sadness, soon comes happiness
If I surround myself with positive things, I'll gain prosperity

CHORUS
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If you watch the "news," you are ingesting elaborated, hyper-repeated nightmares. Can't you feel the difference between what you are motivated to do with an internal mantra like, "I'm a survivor!" Versus one that says ridiculous, self-cancelling things like "I must accept poison and mutilation, in order to live." Makes zero sense.

STARVE UNWANTED NIGHTMARES. FEED DESIRED DREAMS.

​The lyrics I put in purple are to highlight ironic ways the pain of the past two years has helped to squeeze out our essence. If there are any parts of your essence that you see, and dislike/disown, THAT is the work that could productively benefit from your rapt attention and focus.

You become what you endlessly gaze at, so I hope you are choosing to stare at beautiful things. And if they seem in short supply, create beautiful things. Within you. And then around you. 💜

​A BIOPHILIC, NON-PARTISAN STANCE:

​It's of lesser importance, but still seems worth mentioning, that I align with NEITHER political party, as BOTH cause great harm and suffering to ALL natural life on beautiful, bountiful earth.

Labels limit, and that's why the more free you become, the fewer labels you wish to wear. But they serve a signifying purpose, so I do not at all mind being identified as a BIOPHILIAC.

At the moment, the word seems to be mostly used among designers who regard it more as a 'style' or 'trend'. I don't detect awe, transcendence or profundity of being in most content about biophilia, but I  celebrate its spark at any mention. If you also have deep thoughts and strong feelings about unmolested life, but haven't really found satisfying ways to talk about it... please consider the work of E.O. Wilson, who conceived "biophilia hypothesis."

The word came alive in me during a certification in permaculture ages ago. My operative definition of biophilia has become: I am oriented toward genetically-intact NATURAL LIFE and NATURAL LIFE SYSTEMS, which includes unmolested air, light, water, soil, seeds, herbs, plants, flowers, trees, fruits, vegetables, insects, animals, and humans. 👈🏾   I feel compelled to AROUSE PROTECTIVE CARE for the sanctity of these things.

All natural life forms have undergone tampering and hindering that is abominable. Natural life forms have been under precise, organized, patient attack. Biophilia makes it instantly obvious, because the love of something makes you more keen of its threats.

QUICK BOTTOMLINE FOR SHORT ATTENTION SPANS:   Biophilia is a harmless, dynamic and generative worldview that is simply TOO LIVELY to be ensnared in counter-productive poli-tricks. Biophilia advances natural wholeness and beauty, and intrinsically opposes engineered fragmentation and mutilation.