Locally or Globally? Raising Vibration
I was getting coffee the other day and had parked on the side of the building. After I came back with my cup of Joe, I saw that I had to back out into the drive-thru line to get out. Thankfully, someone was kind enough to let me back out, but I still had to wait for the line to progress until I could actually leave it to go toward the exit. Now there was one person ahead that watched the car ahead of them pull up twice and did not pull up to match. They sat there with two car lengths between them. Unfortunately, because they had not pulled up, there were a couple of us that could not leave until they did.
Now after the expected moment of road rage went through my mind, I started looking at this and a lot of other things differently. One could say that this person was self-centered, but I think a better term might be centered on self (which I believe is different). They were thinking very locally. They were focused on themselves and what they were doing, not anything else around them. Unfortunately, this is something I see a lot of.
Have you ever been in the grocery and noticed someone block the aisle with their cart while they look at the things on the shelf? This happens a lot, especially in the big warehouse stores. People are so focused on what they are doing, what they need, what they want, that they don’t realize that there are other people in the store (or on the road) with them.
One thing my mother always taught me was to pay attention to other people, and be kind. Let cars out in front of you. Don’t block the grocery aisle. Step out of the way and let others by. And while I didn’t realize it, she was teaching me to think globally.
Thinking globally, at the most basic level, is noticing things immediately around you. Who is around you? What is around you? What is going on around you? Noticing these things puts us in a position to act. To respond to situations. Moving so others can get by. Pulling up to the car in front of you because it will allow vehicles behind you to pull into that turn lane. It gives you the ability to give a kindness.
Moving out from there, global thinking expands to include the area around you, the climate, the mood. It allows you to do positive things in your local area, even if that is simply talking to a neighbor and calming them over something that happened. Or making a suggestion that motivates them to do something positive which will motivate someone else to do something positive.
Eventually, thinking globally effects the entire world. But it does not mean you have to be a leader of a country. It means you need to think of things you can make happen, like putting new ideas in people’s heads that eventually grow and spread that eventually make real positive change on a large level. In turn, you are raising the vibrations, of people, of areas, of situations. Raising the vibrations helps others think more positively, more centered on others.
I’m doing that right now as I think globally, and make suggestions to a large group of people hoping they will take it to heart and spread it. Maybe positive change will come from here as well as other areas. So, enlarge your area of perception. Look at what is around you. Do a kindness. After all, kindnesses eventually come back. That too is called Karma.