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Most of us vacillate between these two coins of the realm, (quiet desperation and joyous living) allowing outside circumstances to intrude on any inner-peace we may have eked out for ourselves.

Given all that is being written lately, regarding war mongering, there is much in our outer circumstances that is intruding.

It is an incredible time. On one hand, we are being called upon to stand and be counted...to let our voice be heard. On the other hand we are told that peace can never come from violence...that the very act of violence spreads its seeds to the wind, further propagating itself.

Recently, I have received communications from various groups who are opposed to this war on Iraq. (There was even one e-mail calling for Bush’s impeachment.) As I am very opposed to this proposed war, my sentiments in general were with these well-written, well-informed letters and e-mails.Then, as I began looking at their websites, I was taken back with the fanaticism of a few of the sites. I hope that we remember, in our rush to protest this thinly veiled bid-for-control-of-oil-war, that we can hold peace in our hearts while we stand for what we believe.

If anger rages within us, yea, even righteous anger, we are at once removed from our ability to think clearly. With anger, we go into sheep mode...either easily led by another more dominant, more persuasive voice, or by our own misplaced anger stuffed from another time and another place.

Anger is funny like that. It is not event specific. It lies there beneath the facade of civilized man/woman...waiting...waiting for any excuse to pour forth. After all, isn’t that one of the ideas we have drawn from psych classes and self-help books? If we are having an inappropriate response, we can bet that we have just had a button pushed, whose roots can be traced to a place in our past. We are admonished to sort through such feelings and clear them (Feelings buried alive never die). Few of us however take the time to root out all such feelings...and so they lie in wait.

We may be able to pull in the reigns of our feelings most of the time, but when the stakes are raised to war, to inappropriate war, to a war being touted by a man who almost single-handedly, in one year’s time, took America from being supported by the rest of the world, to alienating us from the rest of the world, something inside us rises to the surface.

We are at an important crossroad in history, where the choices we make in the coming months may be the most important of this millennium.

There is a belief that what we draw to us is a reflection of what is going on inside. So, if we do not resolve a challenge or problem while it is inside of us, it seems to move into our outer world for easier viewing.

This is definitely a time when each of us are being called upon to look into our hearts...what are we carrying there? What feelings are we harboring there? In my Yoga classes, at the end...when everyone is lying quietly and breathing deeply...one of the things I have participants do is to feel the PEACE within their bodies...within their hearts...and to project it, radiate it, outward into the world. It is a small thing, but remember to check your heart each day...take some slow, deep breaths...and feel the PEACE within you. Then radiate it outward into the world.

One conscious individual, who intentionally chooses and radiates PEACE, can change his or her environment. It’s something we can DO. Something that will not cause harm. And may very well help.

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