Is the time right

When will we finally take responsibility?

When will we finally take responsibility for our lives?

...for our health, our successes and failures?

...for our failures, our happiness, our children, our environment.

...for our emotions, our resolved and unresolved conflicts?

When will we finally stop asking others to be responsible for our being, to put their health on the line for us?

When will we stop making our partner responsible for our own happiness?

When, the doctor for our health?

When will we finally stop looking outside for all the answers?

When are we going to stop looking at our own reflection in the mirror?

When, will we stop blaming our parents - for our failures?

When ?

People go to the doctor, to the therapist, because they have problems, but even there they don't want to take their part in what is happening.

They expect help from the outside, a diagnosis that finally explains why they feel the way they do. Finally everything has a name and again you can exclude your responsibility, you can give it a diagnosis instead.

Intervertebral discs are pressing - because we don't want to carry the burden of fast life anymore, but still we hurry on, accelerate even more - burn until burn-out.

Eating ourselves to death, but starving inside.

We numb ourselves with alcohol in order to endure our own lives.

WHY?

Digestion doesn't want to work because too much in life simply can't be processed, or we're not ready to let go of the old, allow change, or relinquish control.

As if life itself could be controlled, dominated.

Liver congestion - because too much unloved emotion cannot be held in the body in the long run. Saying yes too often when the soul demands a clear no is easier than standing by oneself.

Putting one's own life on the back burner in order to please everyone, to be a dear child, to be liked, yes, to be seen, makes us sick in the long run, the cells sour and degenerate cells have a party.

People forget, become demented...perhaps because this is often the only way to avoid having to face one's own history?

The question of all questions - then inevitably emerges at some point: "Why me?"

But do we really want to get to the bottom of the answer, or isn't it again easier to simply look for culprits?

To stuff ourselves with chemicals instead of looking for health?

"Why me?"

... maybe because it's exactly your life that needed you to get to this point?"

... maybe because the body has already sent so many little signals, first quiet, then getting louder and louder, that nobody wanted to hear?

... maybe because we shift the most important of all responsibilities - namely our health - to the outside, completely hand it over?

... perhaps because illness is nevertheless not a punishment, but a healing process, a cleaning up in the system.... Christmas cleaning, so to speak.

... maybe because one has already lost oneself far too long ago, somewhere - unspectacular along the way...quietly, but steadily.

... maybe because you can't overstrain your system endlessly and can't permanently drive at full throttle.

... but perhaps also because it is simply time to leave the playing field.

Whatever the answers to this question, they almost always entail action, change, taking RESPONSIBILITY...for all facets of life.

Because, even if we don't want to hear it, WE ALL ALONE, each one individually, are responsible for his or her happiness.

It's up to me all alone to take care of my health and sometimes that's not an easy path. It requires a lot of mindfulness and especially a sense of self.

It is up to me alone to take care of my happiness or unhappiness. This requires a recognition of one's own unconscious beliefs and spirals of thought.

This requires looking at oneself, because no one on the outside can make my innermost world visible to me if I am not willing to see it myself.

It is up to me alone to live my true self, to love myself with all positive and negative aspects, to be loving to myself.

This requires a forgiving, a stopping of judging.

It is up to me all alone to be absolutely honest with myself, because you can lie to the whole world, but not to yourself, at least not in the long run.

This requires a lot of courage, very little ego, pride and vanity.

It requires devotion to life and a lot of love for life.

When will we be ready to step into responsibility?

The body was given to us as an incredibly wonderful instrument and so many do not learn to play it all their lives.

When will we realize that every human being is beautiful, perfect, just as he comes into the world?

When will we realize that animals are just as beautiful, that they are not merely living beings who have to serve us?

When will we realize that the environment, plants, trees and everything that belongs to it, is one living miracle that must be respected and preserved?

When will we realize that we need all this to live healthy and not the other way around.

When will we see that life is a single play and that we ourselves assign the roles?

When will we realize that although we are all divine, we should not play God?

When will we finally realize our full potential and take responsibility for ourselves?

Is the time ripe for this?