The Power of the Fifth Element

Live your life more towards your altruistic values. We’ve come so far away from where we used to be and altruism in many of the social justice movements. 

Though at the core of them many are trying to make changes for a better world, the sad truth is that a lot of the groups have lost one of the greatest aspects of these kinds of movements. 

The whole point of many social justice movements is inclusion and doing better for our world. But that message got lost in pride and even hatred in some groups where members began attacking those who did not agree with their perception of what the world should now be like. 

Though the intention is good, it got lost in their own repressed emotions of their own trauma. 

And this put a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths and ultimately pushed them away from wanting anything to do with these movements or organizations. 

And we have to wonder how we’re supposed to create inclusion with hatred when these groups have only demonstrated hypocrisy? When you use knowledge to burn other people this way, you actually do more harm for your cause than good. 

You end up losing your audience for your righteous pride and not helping people understand why your movement is important, too important to let pride get in the way of it, because you need every living soul on the planet to be on board with this to pull it off. 

What many people don’t realize is these tactics of forcing people to their will is exactly what created these problems with people, animals and the planet in the first place. 

Righteous pride and crusading one’s religious superiority is what fueled the tragedy with Native Americans. 

In order for us to get above this kind of thinking and approach is to get right with the power of our fire. Our passion. It can be used for good or for bad. 

There are good leaders and their are bad leaders who both used their fire in the same ways. What kind will you be in your life and with all the souls you touch before you die? 

In what ways can you examine your pride, anger, boldness, passion, rage, warrior-ship, leadership, energy, and other aspects of your fire element and decide what are you leading people in? 

Are you leading more self righteous acts of social justice, political or spiritual superiority? Or are you leading in ideals that shut others down, elevate your beliefs above theirs, and cast scorn upon them? 

Is this the kind of world you wish to live in? Is this ethical? Is it diplomatic? Does it truly stand for what you believe in, or have you gotten off track a little bit? Can you be honest with yourself and genuinely search your heart here to make sure? 

Fire power is dangerous when we don’t know how to understand power in the first place. 

When we don’t understand that it’s perfectly fine to be angry, raging even, just as long as you harm no one, even yourself, then it can be a very powerful tool of release. 

Taking action or being courageous when you’d normally be afraid is a positive outcome of anger used as courage. It can do many things for you if you can learn to understand it.  

Another aspect of fire is passion. Tapping into your passion really helps you to understand who you are and why you’re here. Through passion we understand what is important to us and what is not. 

When we get off the spoon-fed carnival shit show of mass media and actually start thinking for ourselves we learn we are these incredible beings with a zest and love for life that far extends beyond the Kardashians and what the latest fashion trend or tech toy is. 

We instead open up into expansive beings who look at the universe every time like it’s the first time and we fall in love with little things like ladybugs and caterpillars and appreciate them for what they are. 

We appreciate ourselves for what we are and what we can do. And we see the world differently. We see ourselves differently. And often times we see that we’re not actually in love with all the things the world told us to be, like Starbucks. 

That we have love for creativity and a passion to contribute back to humanity in beautiful and unique ways.

You learn instead of being bigger and better than someone else or groups of people, that we are all both similar and yet very unique. We all have a special purpose and place where we belong whether it is raising children or building homes or teaching. 

And you learn to pursue this with all of your heart and might in spite of what the rest of the world tells you. 

And this is very important to understand because it will hopefully teach you that confidence is not above or below another person or taking their power. It is actually understanding that we are all leaders and followers of each other, both learning and teaching as we grow as a species. 

We are reciprocal and already equal just as soon as we as the individual learn to work that hierarchal value system out of our psyche. 

When you learn that putting yourself down is part of this hierarchal value system, you want to do it less and love yourself more. You are equal and you do belong here. 

And anyone that tries to make you feel different, including yourself, is still stuck and blinded in that hierarchal system. Most likely we all have places where this is true, partly because we’re still healing, but also because the system forces us to to survive. 

For instance, you have to “beat out your competition to win” is a common attitude in business and corporations. We don’t even question it because in this kind of society that is very practical. 

You won’t survive with out it. And it’s difficult to be in both of these kinds of worlds at the same time because in one you’ll always be living a lie. 

But you can still be cognizant and continue to work on it and expand ideas that help all of us to bridge gaps to more egalitarian mindsets while still working in hierarchal ones. 

To learn how to work more on your fire, check out the Fire Element page.