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KATRINA – LEARNING OPPORTUNITY FIVE: Allow the experiences of the suffering people in New Orleans, Texas, and the Gulf Coast and your experiences watching them to show you what you think of yourself. Do you think of yourself as someone who can make a difference in the world? Or do you think of yourself as someone who has no power in the world? Do you think of yourself as someone whom others listen to? Or as someone whom others do not see? In other words, use your emotional reactions to the experiences of people suffering to show you how you look at yourself because how you look at yourself did not come into being when you first saw them suffering. You saw yourself this way long before Katrina and Rita made landfall. You have looked at yourself this way all your life. Use your experiences of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita to let you see how you are looking at yourself and if you feel that your view of yourself is not a healthy one, you can change it. You can also consider the possibility that what you do in the world and what you say have impact whether or not you are willing to accept that. You can also realize that the great souls we admire, such as Mahatma Gandhi, such as Martin Luther King, such as those who are doing so much in their own ways to help are souls like you. The difference is that they do not allow themselves to be incapacitated by a self-perception as powerless. They assume that their efforts will benefit others and they make efforts to benefit others, each in their own way. You are in a position to observe whether you are a person who feels that you can contribute to the world or feels that you cannot. In fact, you can. It is only your perception that prevents you. Email us what you have learned from this Learning Opportunity so that we can share it on the web. Read what others have learned. Click here to see previous OPPORTUNITIES (it is never too late to learn from an OPPORTUNITY). With love,
Katrina – Learning OPPORTUNITY Number Five:
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