Channel; Victoria Cochrane | Source
Imagine you are a flea, sitting on a dog. Although you are tine, when you feed on the dog’s blood, you make him itch. You lay your eggs in his hair and produce young, which in turn cause more itching and discomfort. Although you are tiny, the impact you have had on the dog is significant, albeit in a negative and unhelpful way.
Consider now a person, one individual living their life in the suburbs and coping with all the day-to-day drams that come with being a human on Earth. There os so much going on in the world that they feel powerless, not to mention the battle they have had lately with the local council to fix all of the issues with the roads in their area.
One day, this ordinary person meets a young, single mother in crisis. Her two children need school clothes and equipment, and she is three months behind in her rent, which has put her in danger of losing her home.
What can one individual, who is already struggling to keep up with their own bills, do to help this young mother? What impact can she have on a young family’s life?
The first thing they do is they show kindness, that they care. They spend time listening to her problems. Then they find people who are in a better position to help. They give the children treats and find good, second-hand clothes to dress them for school. They contact their local service club and arrange to fund-raise to help the young mother to catch up with her rent.
In the long term, their actions have not solved the problem, but in the short-term, their kindness has given hope to this young woman, and has empowered her to feel worthy enough of finding a way forward for herself.
“ A little kindness goes a long way” is a saying that rings true, now more than ever. In a world where many people are fighting to put food on the table and pay for the basic essentials, the impact that one small act of kindness can have on a person or family is significant, and could be the turning poing for them being able to change their perspective because someone showed them that they are important and that they care.
There are many communities, races, and even countries where human beings are in dire straits in many different ways. Globally, there are so many problems and disasters that it is possible for any individual to feel helpless.
However, if you think of the flea, whose presence has such a negative impact on a dog, consider the impact you, as one person, could have on another person if you just listened, took the time to engage and show that their lives matter. How can you make another person’s life that little bit better through showing kindness?
If every person helped one other person to feel better about themselves, imagine the ripple effect that would have on the world around them. When a person’s vibrations are raised above depression, doubt and despair, their consciousness is raised to another dimension. We cannot stress enough how powerful an effect that can have on the human collective consciousness! Like attracts like, so when one person is positive, they create an energy that multiplies around them and becomes a consciousness that is mirrored by others.
So, how can you make an impact on the world? It is the smallest act that can have the greatest impact on the life of another, whether it be human, plant, animal or insect. An even greater impact can be made when the intention is focused, pure and from the heart. One small act can be the difference between hope and despair and, even though you may never know how great the impact was, the deed in itself is the most important step.
Over history, many people have changed lives through their ground breaking discoveries and heroic deeds. However, so many more people change lives every day because they show kindness, tolerance and understanding to their fellow humans.
What can you do to make a difference? I AM AA Michael.
Here’s something else to ponder. Do you kill the fleas to keep the dog happy? The fleas do not know they are harming, they are just doing what they were born to do. Is that kind and helpful to the fleas?
This life is fully of complexities. Nothing is simple.
Once, years ago, someone disabled asked for my help (probably because I looked like a nice, safe, person). I immediately said, that I was simply happy to be of service! (I had pledged that service to J&M YEARS before… I had told them, don’t rush me, I’m so terribly ill). The jolt of energy between us was palpable… the lady in distress, clearly, hadn’t felt appreciated (in a big, busy, uncaring city) for a while. I hadn’t felt appreciated, in a while, either. It’s a beautiful memory, that brings a tear to my eye, from time to time. Love, to you ♥️, Tomorrow 😄
When angels help people in need, I think they just act with love.
Thank you for the service of love 🙏🏻✨
🥲, thank you, Aki, this was a brief, but special moment, for me.
I miss your energy when you don’t comment dear Diamond 😍😍
Best message I’ve read in a long time!! The fact plants and other animals were mentioned gives it much more credit. Most think it’s all about humans.
Alas, will people care? Will they read this and take the advice? I would think not. In my experience humans have fallen way too far to care outside themselves or their own circles.
I wonder if humans even know how to help in an appropriate way anymore. Some give because it makes themselves feel good when the other doesn’t want or need the help. Or, they give expecting something in return.
It’s a very tricky thing ‘giving/helping’. People can have the best intentions and truly believe they are doing good but it can create the opposite effect. One persons idea of kindness could be another persons idea of interference and over stepping boundaries. Or, their act of kindness could have dire consequences through lack of thought/seeing the bigger picture.
Here’s an example, I’ll use animals. Say you save a cat from a shelter. A kind loving action everyone would agree. But then you let the cat roam freely. The cat kills many birds and mice on its outings. You have no idea it is doing this. No excuse. You are responsible for those deaths by not being responsible for the animal you saved. You chose to be a pet owner that makes you responsible for that pet’s actions too. Not only did the cat kill a lot of other animals it destroyed the families and frienships those animals had. Such is the snowball effect from good to disasterous.
Here’s a human example. You have an elderly neighbour. You think the neighbour is lonely and would appreciate some home cooked meals and company. You regularly bring him some food without asking. He feels put on the spot; he doesn’t want to seem ungrateful and hurt ‘your’ feeling so he accepts the meals. He doesn’t even like what he’s being given and it just makes him angry and depressed that he’s had this situation forced on him. You also check in on him regularly to see if he’s okay. Little do you know that he likes his own company and you are driving him crazy coming over all the time. Did you think to ask if he wanted these things or just assumed? Result: You are making his life miserable…but….you have good intentions.
Absolutely kindness and caring is so so important but it only works in a positive way if done with a lot of thought.
No responses reuired. Thanks for the lovely post Victoria and thank you to all who read my response and got something from it also.
Thank you for the explanation in an easy to understand analogy.
In order to notice various coping methods, it is important to raise the vibration and increase the level of consciousness.
One of the way to increase the vibration is to acknowledge the value.
I can recognize my value even if I’m shown concern and compassion to others.
If the vibration rises, I can constantly recognize my value without going through others.
If vibration resonance occurs, I think high vibration will be a more desirable reality.
It’s great that being close to someone leads to increasing the vibration of many people 🕊️✨
Single mothers are a bad example because they choose thugs and lowlives to have kids with and then act surprised when they leave. The kind choice here is to leave them to deal with the consequences of their actions so that they learn, not to finance their stupidity.
Sadly, this is a terribly ignorant statement. Equating being a single parent family with stupidity is a flawed conclusion. What it is, is incredibly challenging, and 1 of the reasons that’s true is that some people still carry such limited perspectives as you’re displaying now.
That may be the right choice, the intelligent choice and even the charitable choice. But it’s definitely not ‘the kind choice’.