One of my favourite TV shows is National Geographic’s The Dog Whisperer, with Cesar Milan. In each episode Cesar works with dog owners whose pets are wreaking havoc in their lives. With few exceptions the actual problem and its resolution originates with the humans, not the dog. I resonate with Cesar’s focus on the emotional and spiritual inner work that is necessary before the dog handling techniques he teaches can be effectively implemented.
In the world of natural horsemanship, the same dynamic prevails: the human who wants to have a balanced relationship with horses must first attain their own inner balance, trust, calmness and relaxation. Again, from Abraham/Hicks and the Law of Attraction we learn that it is our inner feelings, thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that actually construct our experience of the universe.
So, how to create community? Can’t be done. You cannot create community. You can experience community, you can acknowledge community, you can allow community to blossom, but you cannot create it. You can nurture community, deny it, refuse it or fall in love with it, but cannot make it happen. You can regulate community, build walls around it, place it on a pedestal, write poems to it, study it and immerse yourself in it, but never can you force it to appear.
In that sense our community is who we are and there is no separation. I have no way of defining my ‘self’ without including the community I am embedded in. As we change our inner world, our experience of community will shift accordingly.
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