LETTER: Change your mind-set and change world

There have been more than 350 shootings this last year in America in which at least four people were killed or wounded. That’s about one a day.

International terrorism. ISIS. Syria. Putin flexing his muscles. Trump marches on much to the consternation of a GOP totally baffled and without a cohesive platform or plan. Angry climate change deniers rejecting thorough and reliable scientific research. A world in chaos, no matter where you look and regardless of your nationality or your ethnic, political and religious background.

The list gets longer and will continue growing unless we humans are willing to address the source of the problems. The source of the problem involves mind-sets; mind-sets focused with fear and anger on retaliations.

It was Albert Einstein who said: “Problems cannot be solved with the same mind-set that created them.” This is absolutely true, yet as we look around our world today we can see how many times we are violating this truth.

The answer, as I and many others see it, is to replace the fear and anger mind-sets with mind-sets of love. Changing a mind-set from fear and anger to a mind-set of love does require inner work for each of us. And this love is not being a doormat. It involves demonstrations of great strength, resolve, compassion and cooperation.

This does not mean, of course, that we don’t presently deal appropriately with what we have created with our fear and anger mind-sets. And it may mean some more trauma and military type action. But, at the same time, we really need to get busy working on developing mind-sets involving the marvelous and healing qualities of our natural love nature.

 We need to feel comfortable talking about these love qualities and gaining the sense of love’s very powerful energy for overcoming problems created through fear and anger. It all begins with each of us; from one to another and another. It builds. It grows. It begins to be a way of life and the way of defeating the elements of the anger and fear mind-sets that will continue to exist in certain people and movements. —Bob McClellan, Polson