Dear Angels: Could you give me guidance about how things are going at work – with this latest issue of the instructional designer revolt and the leadership issues we feel affect us so deeply?
Yes, we can help you understand the issues that seem to be swimming at work. What you have in your work environment is a conflict of egos. The egos are coming together in the center of the battlefield, as it were, and they are beginning to do their business on the battlefield.
Now, you can choose to enter this battlefield, or you can choose to stand on the sidelines, or you can walk the other way and stay in your own vortex of peaceful, reconciling energy. It is your choice.
But for now, you have chosen to engage. You have thrown down the gauntlet. Voila! Who will fight me today? Look at me! King of the hill. I dare you to come forward.
These are some of the battle cries of those who wish to do battle.
Do you want to do battle? You do not have to. You do not have to engage in fear and in power struggles. You can choose to soothe, choose to revere the peaceful heart of the adventurer and find only the gems that are beneath the surface – those gems that are freely given by the Universe to those who choose to be patient and to understand that their own vortex of loving energy is truly THE ONLY energy that matters. No other energy matters. No one can affect you unless you, in your energy domain, give them that power.
So perhaps there is some healing to be done at work. Perhaps you can muster the wherewithal to encourage this and to see the best in the others.
This is not to say that their behavior is acceptable, or that they do not have nefarious or selfish ends that they are trying to meet. Indeed, there is plenty of selfishness afoot. When we are in fear for our livelihoods, fear is the first and last emotion we feel. We are charged up with the vigor of a warrior in pursuit of a conquest, whether that conquest be a victory at the board table or a victory in the bedroom or a victory in a verbal battle or a victory of unseen proportion. Victory knows no bounds and it also knows no restraint in the making.
All victories are victories of battle because victory implies a winner and a loser. When you have winners and losers, you ultimately have all losers. To simply BE – in patience, in love, in courage, in quietude – THIS is the ultimate - not victory, but gain. GAIN. To gain is to set aside competition and to cooperate so that all who participate in the sequence come away with a sense of belonging, with a sense of peace, and with the knowing that all is right in the world.
Now, you have some work ahead to pave this way in your office. You see, you, too, have engaged in battle. You, too, have sought power and have sought to win and to take your victor spoils. This is – human, albeit not necessarily ultimately human, except as we learn from it. We are learning to be kind and patient and compassionate.
So with your supervisors, some patience and compassion may be in order so that they realize that your intention is to cooperate and not stand in the way of progress.
Granted, “progress” is relative to the mind of he or she who perceives the incidents at hand.
But you can gain more footing and more good will by cooperating rather than competing. This is ALWAYS a good thing.
Tomorrow, perhaps you can speak with SK and explain your position and your feelings. Speak from the heart, and his heart will hear. Speak from the wisdom that you have, and speak with the certainty that your job is to support the efforts of the group as a whole. This will be known for indeed it is the truth.
And your speaking of the truth can indeed be a trigger for the others to speak their truth as well. To speak truth is to open the heart and to become a greater being.
Remember, you can stay in your own vortex of loving energy, and no harm can truly befall you. You see, you are always, at all times, a being of love and a being of ALL ethical values that are wrapped in the gentle cocoon of your spirit. Your spirit IS you, and therefore to express the spirit and to express the good will of the soul is a blessing of great magnitude. You will always GAIN when you speak the words of truth – and consciously live them in your actions. Love is the living truth, and peace is the acceptance of All That Is.
So – you can set an example, and you can be all that you want to be in your office and elsewhere. This world is your playground of learning. Have fun with the learning, and never fear that your time of learning will be for naught. It cannot. All learning is a GAIN. All learning is a blessing. ALL learning is MEANT TO BE.
So, go in peace and know that this is an experience of learning for you – learning to cooperate, learning to speak truth – not fear but TRUTH – which is imbued with love, and learning to be the loving being that you are as you CHOOSE to BE that loving being in thought, word and deed.
Life is an exquisite playground. Now it is for you to have fun and to enjoy the learning in this experience.
God bless you, and be good to yourself. Reward your own self with words of good cheer. Make someone else’s day better with your smile and your love.
Good night.
