The Bernie Way
Human to human emotional interactions can be thought of as fitting into four separate tiers; pity, sympathy, empathy and compassion. One of the keys to winning this contest and putting Bernie into the White House is for the movement to institute compassion both as one of it's cornerstones as well as part of the platform.
Part of the movement's strength is the high number of awakened people who are participating in it. There are many overlapping demographics that tend to support Bernie but the demographic made up of people who meditate once or twice a day, practice yoga regularly, are vegan/vegetarian and study the likes of Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer is possibly the highest per capita of all these demographics in terms of the percentage of people who follow Bernie. It's important for the movement's cause that the Bernie supporters don't allow the establishment Democrats to pull them down to their level.
The convention in Nevada is a useful example for progressives to use to be able to examine where they could have done better in terms of response. It's essential that over the next 10 weeks or so that they understand this because they're going to have to do a hell of a lot better. Roberta Lange's behavior didn't seem to be very enlightened and whatever karma she took on in Nevada is up for the Universe's to resolve, not for you. The question is; going forward how can Bernie supporters, individually and as a group, do a better responding energetically to behavior like Ms. Lange's. How has Bernie responded to these situations?
Pity is the lowest form of connecting emotionally and is to be absolutely avoided at all cost. Pity is arrogant, it's condescending and it implicitly carries with it a sense of separation between the sender and receiver. While feeling sorry for someone may seem like a good thing, in reality it's a way of people washing their hands of dealing authentically with a person, whom they see as lesser to them.
When we sympathize with someone, we connect emotionally with the other person by simulating in our minds what we thing the other person is going through and triggering and experiencing a similar emotional response. Sympathy is preferred to pity but it is still emphasizing and perpetuating a false sense of separation between the two people.
Empathy is an elevated level of being where one person actually feels the other person's emotions directly, not through inference or simulation. With empathy, the sense of separation is much less with sympathy but with empathy, you can also be in a position where you can't distinguish your emotions from there's. This is a problem if you're empathetic with an irrational person who is unable to regulate their emotions.
The highest level of energetic being with someone else is compassion. With compassion, you see the other person as an extension, as a part of yourself, and you can connect with them on a deep level and accept them as they are. Does the right hand need to forgive the left hand? Does one foot need to love the other? Compassion is a deep knowing that you and the other person you've got your awareness on are the same being.
Compassion is being the bigger person and not expecting the other to be as mature as you. Compassion is also the best way to bring about long-lasting and meaningful change. Rise above.
It may not be easy to empathize with Debbie Wasserman Schultz or Roberta Lange, or even sympathize with them but the one thing that we can do is be compassionate towards them and love them for who they are. They're just playing their roles in this drama and they're doing a damn good job of it.
That said, the Bernie Movement needs to own up to the fact that there was violence in Nevada. When you leave a foul-mouthed, nasty voice message or send someone a profanity laced text, that's extremely violent on an energetic level. But by that same token, if we're going to hold the progressives accountable for their egregious energetic behavior, we're also going to have to hold the DNC accountable for theirs. They need to understand that the way the they have been comporting themselves has been just as much, if not more, energetically violent than sending a relatively small number of toxic texts and voice messages.
When you start the convention earlier than scheduled, when you ratify rules changes in spite of a demand for a recount by an overwhelming majority, when you end the proceedings unilaterally and when you are basically cheating to win, you're committing energetic assault and battery against the entire Bernie Sanders movement. However, since there is no real separation between us, what you're doing is committing assault on yourselves.
How stupid are you to think that you can commit such a series of heinous attacks over the past 12 months, on the entire progressive wing of the party, and expect everyone to come to Philadelphia and sing Kumbaya?
Karma can be a bitch. Have compassion for those who haven't been able to understand this.
The best way to enhance our innate ability to be compassionate towards others is to learn how to meditate. Enjoy this short clip on meditation.
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Frank Huguenard holds a degree in science from Purdue University and spent decades in product development in Silicon Valley prior to embarking on a career in documentary film production, specializing in films bridging the gap between Science & Spirituality. He draws on his research in the fields of combination of psychology, physics, wisdom traditions, sociology and history. You can see his films at www.beyondmefilms.com.