Changing the perception of being a victim

In the last post I shared a video from a TedTalk.  I so hope you watched that one!  He had one comment in the video about being a victim of circumstances as a child that he could not change.  Then he stopped and also said he was not a “victim”.  He even invited us to take note of the subtle difference.  Did you?

In learning to come out of my own victim story, I had to look at my story from so many perspectives.  Each one giving me a wider viewfinder than the small little one I had been in and used for a variety of reasons.

Notice even now what comes into your own mind/emotions as we begin to look at this subject.  So many of my own teachers throughout the years have pointed a finger in this direction to me.  This planet we live on carries for us all a lot of victim energy. Think about the political scene?  What about environment?  Insurance companies? Health care? People who have misused their power?So on the 3D level we have all experienced being a victim of one circumstance or another.  And yet, we can claim for ourselves we are not victims!

I have been a student of the Course in Miracles for many years!  It is a course of study designed to train your mind out of fear-based thinking into love -based thinking.  I like to think of it as a way of living that has taught me to see “everything comes in a way for me to grow”. Do I like all the lessons?  Not necessarily.  I have learned the longer I resist them, the more struggle I create 😉  That my mind projects things “out there” so I can see it in me.

The lessons that have helped me take back my power to love are “I give everything I see all the meaning it has for me”.  Think about this one for a moment.  Everything that is happening around me is neutral …until I give it meaning.  Now I can give it a loving meaning, or I can give it a fear based meaning.  I get to choose.

I remember the movie “life is beautiful”  about the holocaust , a dad and a little boy.  To protect his son from seeing being imprisoned as awful,  he told his son that this was a game.  Since his son had that “meaning” given to him, he was not traumatized.  Even the story of Nelson Mandela and Victor Frankl point this out.

Another lesson in the Course is “creation’s gentleness is all I see”.  This one goes on to say “I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw the looking back at me.  How fierce they seemed!  And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone.”……

Contemplate that one!  Freud and Jung and many others spoke of this in many different ways.  We project onto others that which is within us.

Back to the victim story…what if truly you had situations that did victimize you?  What if you knew that you truly weren’t a victim?  What if you were truly a magnificent being of love that decided to come and re-write the victim story?  What if we all chose to do this so this planet would be free of this victim story once and for all?

Where would that leave us?  Where would that leave you?

Perhaps free to love it all?