The End Is The Beginning

These 40 day challenge sessions give us a structured and extended practice to activate our authentic selves and a strengthening in the process. Our mind is more resilient during the span of the 40 days and our confidence grows. Our connection to our values intensifies, and we are reminded how easily we can lose track of them.

Keeping values like kindness, compassion, joy and positive indifference are part of what we can each do for the world. As within so be without, and having a rotting sense of our values is reflected in the messages we put into the world. It becomes an uglier place for our presence.

I would ask that you come away from this process with a greater commitment to what you truly value, and to understand why what is valuable is valuable. Value exists to be able to keep your focus in the midst of turbulence. That's why it is valuable. Live with values that make you improve as you pursue their ideal. You do not have to be perfect, just get a little better. 

Commit to the study and practice of nonlinear de escalation practice. It is easy, not hard to do. Simply slow your breathing, focus in your lower abdomen, notice subtlety, and say the phrase I AM. These small details will make you more resilient, and more likely to keep your head as others lose theirs.

Please remember that you may not even make it to the end of this paragraph. There is someone who was alive as I started it that did not make it all the way through. We are all connected and each is powerful. We have value as a human species, and our country is not just the sum of all of its long history with hatred. We are also a history of people who have overcome hatred. The end of the 40 days is just another beginning. There are people all over the world who want to love our families, our ethnic history and humanity. The end is the beginning, and to intend to love humanity is to succeed.