As we are finding out, truth is not in the black nor the white, it is in the gray area. People are a mixture and are always changing, growing, learning. People may be 100% convinced they are doing the right thing, but when we look at it months later, it may not be the case. Situations are complex and the world is changing at a rapid pace.
We are told, “To thine own self be true.” Which can be difficult if we are involved in group activities that requires us to follow instructions. If things go south, we can rely on that fact that we made the best decision at the time based on the knowledge that we had at the time. At a point further in time we may have new knowledge that puts a completely different light on the matter.
We may find ourselves in difficult lessons right now that are painful. They challenge us to declare who we are and what we stand for. To get to those answers we must go through a self assessment. The path of struggle sitting with ourselves until we reach an acceptance of our past words, behaviors, actions and decisions, clearing the shadows that follow us around. We win the internal battle of the shadow by surrendering, and reclaiming that part of ourselves that we were least proud. Forgiving and welcoming back the fragments we disowned and moving forward with all parts intact.
In this way, we can be resilient to attempts to dissuade our thinking or pull us into an emotional polarization and black and white thinking that may make us vulnerable to outside influence. When we disengage our emotions, and become the observer, we are better equipped to apply critical thinking skills. In this changing world, there is a battle to hold us back in the old paradigm, and we have to declare ourselves free by rising above pulling ourselves out of it. We can no longer blindly trust narratives given to us by internet and media. Old control systems that would like to keep us controlled employ the use of narrative warfare and narrative strategies.
In 5th Generation Warfare (5GW,) a person, situation or thing is painted or dressed in a certain light to make us automatically associate that person as threat or not, friend or foe. It makes a suggestion to us without our realizing it. Our defense is to train our mind to recognize and be aware of it. To keep our mind in the best shape it can possibly be.
One way to spot 5GW is to recognize when we are being emotionally triggered. Asking ourselves some questions… who is trying to trigger our emotions and what is the agenda? Can we pull out just the facts for ourselves? Remember, the agenda is for our mind, to influence our thinking. Critical thinking takes us out of the emotions that put us into black and white polarized thinking and get us looking at facts, information and data. Then draw our own conclusions and our own decisions. Most of us do this already. Most of us have been practicing discernment and honing critical thinking skills, with all we have been through in the past three years or so.
We are in an amazing time. The battle within overcoming the shadow, opening our hearts and integrating into wholeness, and the 5GW battle to control our thinking and influence our behavior in our outer world. It is all connected. As we heal within, we heal outside. It makes a difference if we surrender to the process and do the lesson and allow ourselves to be tested. This all important time is a bridge to greater things ahead, but we must go through this and do the best we possibly can right now.
