We Are All Fukushima

In my morning meditation the world crisis that is Fukushima's nuclear meltdown arose in my awareness. I was aware of both the intense fear that many people are experiencing as well as the amount of unconsciousness that exists about this real threat to everything on the planet.

Briefly, for readers who are not aware, here are the basic facts:

• On 11 March 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, followed by a tsunami that slammed the country’s eastern coast, destroying communities and taking the lives of tens of thousands of people. The event led to the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
• The earthquake caused the loss of external power at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a site with six reactors. The subsequent tsunami flooded the plant’s back-up diesel generators, causing complete loss of power and leading to a failure of the cooling systems. Due to the lack of cooling, the nuclear fuel was damaged and melted in reactors #1, #2 and #3. The build-up of hydrogen gas due to the damaged fuel resulted in hydrogen explosions in these three units and damaged the containment structure in reactor #4.
•  The nuclear disaster was rated Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), the highest rating. Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) estimated that the amount of radioactive caesium sent into the atmosphere by the explosions was equivalent to 168 Hiroshima bombs.
•  More than 150,000 people fled the contaminated areas up to 50km around the Fukushima plant.  The 20km evacuation zone is still off limits; experts expect it will be uninhabitable for decades. Most of those who evacuated from other areas have thus far chosen not to return, due to concerns about radiation, unemployment and fears of living in a ‘ghost town’.
• A study conducted by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Society called the Fukushima disaster ‘the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history’. In April 2011, oceanic levels of caesium-137 measured off the coast of the Fukushima Daiichi plant were 50 million times higher than before the disaster.
• It is reported that at this point, 300 tons of radiation (caesium, strontium, tritium) contaminated water is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.
• Misinformation, lies, and fear mongering have continued to flow from Japan and the rest of the web connected world since 2011.

While there is a very real threat to the Pacific Ocean's life (all that live in, on, and from) and the West Coast of North America, there is something we can each do to support the health of Mother Nature (which includes us humans).

In my meditation I saw that "we are all Fukushima".

Every day we pour our own version of 'tons of radiation' (toxins) into the emotional body (ocean) of our personal and global existence. Our minds are constantly creating thoughts, ideas, beliefs and perceptions that trigger fearful reactivity. This fear begets contraction. When many of us contract in fear we habitually come out fighting; defending ourselves against real or perceived danger.

While our world is plagued with the wars that result from such fearfully motivated violence against others, much of the time our communities, workplaces, and homes mirror this same inability to differentiate between our minds' fear thoughts and the truth of what is really happening.

We are perpetuating our own destruction in small and big ways. Fukushima is simply another frightening example of humanity's short-term fearful, greedy mind behavior. But we each do this, also in small and big ways.

We let the toxicity of our fears turn into violent reactivity that can no longer be contained. Our false identities (the faces we show the world that do not match our inner experiences) can no longer manage the toxic waste of our thoughts. Our minds (reactors) pour this toxicity into our emotional bodies (the ocean) and we become fearful, angry and strike out at others (meltdown).

Everything we think, feel, and do affects everyone and everything. This I know to be true. We are One, inseparable life force battling against itself.

We have choice.

We can continue to live in fear or we can choose to live in and from Love.

I know both 'fear' and 'Love' are words created by our minds, but they attempt to describe something important about our human existence. These are our only two motivators, fear or Love. We have the ability to choose in each moment from which of these energies we will move in our lives.

Let's get practical...

Higher than normal levels of radiation have been measured in the sand along the San Francisco coastline (most people have seen the youtube video of the geiger counter readings) and blue fin tuna, who travel the Pacific Ocean's currents that run between Fukushima, Japan and North America, are reportedly contaminated with radiation when they reach the West Coast of the U.S.

What can we do? Remembering that we are all Fukushima, the radiation, the danger... and the solution!

Dr. Emoto has, since 1994, been working with water and discovered that polluted water when photographed under a microscope looks like a deformed, dirty blob. And, simply put, when he labelled this water with the word 'Love' it transformed into a snowflake-like crystal. Change that label to 'Hate' and it changed back into a deformed, dirty blob. These tests have been replicated.

Simple. Yes, it is that simple. Change our attitudes, the energy we are directing at ourselves, others and the planet, and we change the molecular structure of all organisms.

Changing our minds is not easy (says our minds). There is truth in this. A habitually spinning wheel will, usually, take some time to slow down and eventually come to a stop. This is part of the reason we offer a weekly meditation gathering; to slow the wheels of our thoughts.

Be playful. How can I be playful when the world is in crisis?! your mind might say. Our minds do not want us to be vulnerable, but it is this playful vulnerability that brings us in touch with our innocence; that little child in each of us who knows it's all magical. The innocent child in each of us knows everything can be changed by changing our thoughts.

One or two simple practices to heal your mind, your body, your relationships, and your world:

1. Choose activities that nourish you (walks in nature, yoga, meditation, playtime with two-leggeds and four-leggeds)
2. Choose foods that nourish you (fruits, veggies, clean water, non-GMO products, when possible foods that are grown sustainably and healthily in your community)
3. Choose to relate to yourself and others in ways that nourish you (stop the fear thoughts, don't listen to fear thoughts of others, including the news, speak about what you love, risk being vulnerable and speak your truth, play)
4. Choose to change the deformed, dirty blob that your personality may be into the clear, crystal snowflake of your true Being
5. Label yourself with 'LOVE' (using white medical tape, write words such as LOVE, GRATITUDE, JOY etc on the tape and stick it to your body, your water container, your food dishes, your house, your car, your dog's collar, your fitness center's water fountain, your public buildings)
6. Finally, label a stone (with non-toxic vegetable based colour) with 'LOVE', or imagine doing so, and go to the ocean or your nearest body of water. With the intention of bringing LOVE to the emotional body of Mother Earth (the oceans, lakes and rivers) place this stone in the body of water with gentleness (do not throw it in, this is a violent act and may hurt a fish, bird, mammal, swimmer).
7. Offer your experience to your friends and bring LOVE to all our emotional bodies, spreading this intention and this energy all around the globe, and in particular to the Pacific Ocean and to the lands and people of Fukushima, Japan.
8. Sit together in Love. Pray together in Love. Chant together in Love. Heal together in Love.

Believe this is possible. It is.

Another thing I know for sure is that everything, being One, inseparable, is both light and dark, positive and negative, 'good' and 'bad'. Not one of us is 'better' or 'worse' than another. We each have the ability to choose Loving action, Loving Presence in each moment. Our minds will not agree with this, so don't listen to your fear-based mind.

Listen to your heart and let yourself be moved in Loving action. Now.

With Love,

Edward
Note: The image at the top is my beloved Kira's Healing the Waters of Fukushima and Beyond painting. Flowing out from Fukushima are the words: "We love you; You are beautiful; We delight in your magnificence." Surrounded by intergalactic symbols that Kira received in a dream - 'Written Language of Light' (?).