Fight for Peace

On the difference between fighting for peace and standing up for love

A few month ago I started to write an Essay about the absurdity and the contraditory meaning of the phrase „fight for peace“

For a long time now I was asking myself if fighting for peace could ever be the answere? Don’t fights just create other fights? And then we’re stuck in a never ending loop, thinking we’re changing something, when in reality we’re just creating new fights, new storms.

And these storms animate other people to stand up and fight against them which creates new storms again and so forth an so on..you get where I’m going right?

I know it’s important to stand up for oneself, to stand up for change, or like Ghandi said

-Be the change you want to see in the world-

But why is everyone talking about fighting? Fighting against cancer, fighting against climate change.. fighting for peace..

Coming out of a household where fighting was on the daily menu, not always physical fights, but more mental, psychologial fights that cut very, very deep. The first reaction that my nervoussystem is sending out when there are situations that are challenging, or people raise their voices and I feel their anger is to run away as fast as I can. It’s almost impossible to bare. Even when I thought that I worked through so much and I’ve gotten stronger over the years, it’s still pushing some buttons. I’m learning to manage with time, every situation helps me to grow and master self regulation and I also learn to witness these situations with a different attitude.

And even if I think it takes a lot for me to stand up against someone that is in that energy, I know its important to not let oneself be pushed to the ground. Because setting boundaries is also loving oneself.

But we all know what happens. when we mirror the same explosive energy that someone throws at us and throw it back at them. It can only result in an explosion or an implosion depending on the state the individual is currently in.

So I realized that fighting against someone who’s fighting against themselv and therefore the world is a hopeless and draining thing. 

But developing the courage to stand up for yourself and for what you believe in is another thing.

On the last Podcast Episode of the True Essence Podcast with a dear Friend of mine Emily Hayward, she said something that hit me deeply in a very positive way.

She said something like‘ the highly sensitive people are the people that the world needs and being a spiritual warrior doesn’t necessarily mean to identify with being a warrior in that sense, but more as though to STAND UP FOR LOVE‘

And every time I listen to what she said It moves me so deeply, and than I was like was this the answere to the question that was roaming through my mind all along? Is this the answere I was looking for ?

But now the new question is:

Is fighting for peace, standing up for love?

I do resonate with this perspective at this moment in time and space. I wonder how many layers are popping up with time in terms of this topic.

I never resonated with the word „fight“ it rings the alarm bells in my being

But I do love the phrase – standing up for love

How do you feel about it?

And how do we stand up for love, without coming into the „toxic“ fighting energy that some situations or people may throw at us?

I realized that everything hast to do with the heart…

when we’re in our hearts, we cannot hurt a single soul

there is that phrase that also got stuck in my being

-only hurt people, hurt people-

But the thing I also noticed through activating and embodying the heart energy is that, even if people try to hurt you, intentionally or unintentionally, you always have the choice to how to handle a situation.

It takes a certain state of awareness but deep down you alway have the choice to respond in a different frequency.

One of my favourite authors Paolo Coelho, who wrote „the alchemist“ (which is one my favourite books and I highly recommend READING IT, it touched my heart in a very special way), he talks about „fighting the right fight“ in a lot of his books.

And I always asked myself „what is the right fight?“ Again that WORD!

But now I feel like I’m on the right path for some reason. I feel like I can discern between picking fights because there is a fight in oneself and standing up for love.

And I do feel that people who have a fight in themselves, the people who fight against the world and therefore themselves attract what they send out into this world. And that’s also fine because we live in a universe where we can have all kinds of different experiences.

So I choose to respect and honor that.

Even if something in me wishes for everyone to experience inner peace and of course I wish for the world to experience world peace.

But at the same time I’m asking myself how much of „the wrong fight“ is still in us? Is there even a thing like the „wrong fight“, cause in the end even the wrong fight may lead us to the realization what „the right fight“ means to us?

I mean when we look at the world, and believe that the world is showing us what is still inside of us one could think that there is still a tremendous amount of toxic fight energy, but still something in me is telling me that it is coming up for some reason.

Like a shadow shows up because it wants to be witnessed.. it needs to be witnessed .. and accepted.

I know it costs a lot of lifes ..it causes a lot of trauma..

and no one can ever return all the beautful souls that got lost within the process..

but I still hope with everything in me…that all of this isn’t for nothing.

I hope that it rang all the alarm bells that are meant to be heard at this point in time, so that we never make these mistakes again.

So that we choose to walk a different path.

And I do hope with all my heart, that all the souls that got lost in the chaos of all things alive or not, can find their way back home.

for you are loved, and you always will be.

I kiss your hearts beautiful beings,

-jn