According to Esther and Jerry Hicks, as long as you continue to beat the drum of injustice, unfairness or that which is unwanted, you will hold yourself apart from the improvement.

For months I tried to look for a solution to the traffic problem in Vito Cruz in front of Grand Towers where we live. I wrote 2 newspaper columnists to no avail. I wanted to let the vice mayor know of the problem through a colleague of my husband in a university but the meeting did not push through. I egged some administrators of our building to act on the problem. I asked some of the employees to post complaints on Facebook. Clearly my efforts were practically useless. The old FIGHT approach did not work.

I can no longer try the FLIGHT approach because relocating is not an option. At my age, moving to another home is unthinable. Besides it is not only the physical constraints we will have to deal with; it is much more the financial burden. It’s true what Martha Beck wrote about the “fight” or “flight” responses no longer being workable in the 21st century.

I decided to be positive about the problem and prayed the Ho’oponopono way. Once in a while, early in the morning traffic enforcement men would clear the area of side walk vendors and parked taxicabs. There would be raids against the countless pedicabs blocking the street.
I was no longer angry. I suppose Michael Tamura was right: Spirit as consciousness – energy transforms into the very atoms that make up the material world. Spirit changed me, not the situation I was in and still am.