| "If you can't say something nice, don't say | | | | It's literally our waste. Wasted energy that we |
| anything at all." I completely threw that out the | | | | toss out of our car window without a moment's |
| window the other day. I lapsed into talking about | | | | hesitation. We're all psychic litterbugs! |
| someone in a not-so-positive way. I proceeded to | | | | Think about how nonchalantly we throw physical |
| point out this person's faults and weaknesses, | | | | things away. When we're done with that little |
| what I thought they were doing wrong, how | | | | coffee cup, we put it in the garbage, and we |
| exasperating it was to try to get through to | | | | don't think about where it goes after it leaves our |
| them and show them the light. A few days later I | | | | house, or the damage it's doing to the |
| was meditating, and my behavior during this | | | | environment. All we know is Mr. Garbageman |
| conversation popped into my head as an example | | | | comes once a week to haul off our crap, and we |
| of a concept that my higher self has been | | | | completely absolve ourselves of responsibility as |
| schooling me on, and that is psychic ecology. I | | | | soon as it leaves our sight. But our trash, both |
| know that sounds very woo woo, but really it's | | | | physical and psychic, doesn't magically disappear, |
| quite simple. Ecology is the study of the | | | | nor does our responsibility, because our trash |
| relationships between organisms and their | | | | stays intact until somebody moves it, uses it, or |
| interactions with the environment, and psychic | | | | recycles it. |
| just means beyond the five senses. We're all | | | | So if we keep beating this analogy, maybe |
| psychic to a certain extent. It's just that some of | | | | individuals that do really terrible things are just |
| us are more conscious of that ability, and so we | | | | homeless people that gather our negative |
| can utilize it more effectively. So psychic ecology | | | | thoughts and impulses that we indifferently |
| is the relationships between organisms and their | | | | discard and reuse them in terrible, horrible ways. |
| interactions with the environment on a psychic | | | | Maybe all of the war zones and conflicts around |
| level. | | | | the world are just giant landfills that hold the |
| Everything is energy. Even our thoughts and | | | | collective psychic garbage that we all have |
| words are energy. Everything we think and say | | | | contributed to since the day we were born. Ouch. |
| are actual things that have substance and can | | | | I, for one, have decided to clean up my part of |
| affect the world around us. We mistakenly believe | | | | town and reown my responsibility for my trash. |
| that once that thought passes or those words | | | | There may not be much I can do about my |
| escape our lips, that it's gone with absolutely no | | | | physical trash outside of recycling as much as |
| consequence. But the law of conservation of | | | | possible, which I do, but I can do a lot about my |
| energy states that energy is neither created nor | | | | psychic trash. So, whenever I find myself on a |
| destroyed; it is just transformed from one state | | | | slippery thought slope of criticism about someone, |
| to another. So all those little nasty quips and | | | | I say to myself, "Michelle, that is none of your |
| zingers that we think and say have the same | | | | business." Because if it's not harming me, it really |
| affect in our psychic environment as dumping | | | | isn't. And then I cancel the thoughts that got |
| your trash out in the middle of the road has on | | | | through before I closed the hatch and send that |
| our physical environment. All of our criticisms and | | | | person a blessing. Just imagine the kind of world |
| complaints against other people are just | | | | we would live in if we all did that. |
| transformed insecurity and fear about ourselves. | | | | |