Climate change: Are people really doing enough to make a difference?
There is much advice from politicians, green campaigners and pop stars alike telling us "to switch the TV off standby, recycle our plastic bags and boil less water" - but does focusing on the small, easy steps distract us from the bigger picture? Whilst commendable and necessary these steps maybe, are people being duped into thinking that's enough? At Openhand we believe only a radical change to the way we live our lives is really going to help and that our true path to salvation is found by going within...

Is there enough political will to really act about climate change? Lets be honest with ourselves, personal voluntary action alone is unlikely to be enough. Has the wonderful campaigning by people such as Al Gore with his "Inconvenient Truth" done any more than bring the subject to public awareness? Well I notice we're still building new motorways, (trying) to expand airports and still building non-sustainable housing on green belt land (just to name a few).

Were you aware that in the last 30 years we've released more carbon into the atmosphere than in the previous 250? Were you also aware that it takes approximately 30 years for the carbon released at ground level to rise into the atmosphere for it to have an effect? Just think about it for a moment: that means all the carbon we've released in the last 30 years is NOT YET EFFECTING US!

I could go on for hours in this vain but you'll be pleased to here I won't! The question is what can we spiritually awakening people do about it?

Well to me, the most important thing we can each do is to recognise the urgency of the situation. Do we carry on living our unsustainable lifestyles in the face of what would appear to be a looming crisis? If like me you conclude "no!" then there are some steps we can take. Here's what I would recommend:

1. recognise that this is all probably meant to happen. Why? Because finally it just might encourage enough people to step onto the internal superhighway of guided spiritual evolution - where else is there to go?
2. disconnect from the matrix of conditioned thinking - learn to tune into your soul by continually attuning to the natural joy and beauty of life. The simple pleasures of being, not those conditioned pleasures from buying and consuming.
3. become more self sustaining - question EVERY single pound/dollar/euro etc that you spend and ask "do I really need this?" This includes reducing your amount of personal debt even if that means selling your house - lets face it, there's going to be a house price crash anyway!
4. find out where you can buy locally grown food or better still, find a way of growing your own. With the amount of arable land that's being turned over to grow "green" fuels, food prices are set to rise radically.
5. above all, learn to follow your heart. In doing so, you'll find you're invited to become as one with mother earth. That means not harming or plundering our natural eco-systems but treasuring them and feeling love for them within.

If we follow these simple steps, we will learn how to tune into our intuition and ultimately have the courage to follow it. In so doing, we'll experience the magical synchronicity of guided evolution at work underneath the patterning of all events.

We'll see that this guidance is taking us to our ultimate liberation. We're being offered a window of opportunity into a magical new way of being. There is light at the end of the tunnel BUT in order to get there, we actually have to take the necessary steps. Now would seem like a good time to start. Is there likely to be another time?

Best wishes on your unfolding journey

Chris