First Responder

      

See the big picture. In every type of emergency training for first responders, you begin with "situational awareness." Whatever your emergency may be, put some space around it. Before you react, stop. Look. See the big picture.

The smaller the picture, the more stress, division, and polarity you feel. The bigger the picture, the more you forgive, the more you harmonize, the more your heart unfolds the fragrance of compassion. Does the very word "compassion" not also mean "encompassing"?

You cannot change what is happening right now. But you can choose how you see it. And how you see what is happening now has a great deal to do with what happens in your future.

See the big picture. Even bigger. Now, even bigger. Until you see that all will be well, and a vast stillness encompasses even the most furious battle.

Photo: from Surfer Today