Do you get a headache watching news about world conflict every single day? Can you even imagine the horror of trying to be an effective world leader these days?
The solution for the rest of us is right in front of us. We have the option of resolving our own conflicts right here, right now. We can do that with our lovers, our children, our colleagues, and strangers.
It’s the Butterfly Effect, i.e., a single butterfly flaps his wings and thereby has a small role incontributing to the creation of a hurricane on the other side of the world.
Our own efforts to make peace with everyone immediately around could very well have some effect in Lebanon or China or Ecuador.
With the tools and skills we get from the study of personality typing, we make the changes we want to see all around the world. For example, my ex-wife has been phoning with endless stories of the processes she is going through to cure her overly sensative intestinal system. When we were married, I had no patience for litanies of woes. I’ve discovered that this woman with such a clear Gold temperament is giving me now — again — an opportunity to make peace with her and all Gold people by being the listener she needs, the validator of her needs and values.
We often don’t recognize that our own values that we are born with may be inadvertently causing others stress — not only here and now, but all over the world in some kind of mysterious chain reaction. What I need to do — what we all need to do — is recognize what part of our natural type is causing conflict or reducing conflct. This recognition has to be deliberate. It requires that we step back and watch ourselves act and speak — and then edit what we say and do for world peace.
We don’t have megabucks. We don’t have powerful positions. But we have our own megapower every single time we do something or say something.
We are indeed World Peace.
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