Right Environment
Right Environment is an environment that supports Healing and Connection. In practice, right environments are environments that are safe, supportive, and in alignment with the Spiritual Ego[1] [2] Right environment one of the Three Rs of Alignment and is part of the LP's Alignment Rule Set.
The Three Rs of Alignment
Three Rs of Alignment > Right Action, Right Environment, Right Thought
The Three Ws of Misalignment
Three Ws of Mislignment > Wrong Action, Wrong Environment, Wrong Thought
Related Terms
Right Environment > Alignment, No-Violence Rule, Three Rs of Alignment
Notes
Safe environments are non-threatening, non-toxic, calm environments where there is absolutely no violence or threat of violence of any form. No violence here means no emotional, psychological, spiritual, or physical violence. Safe environments are important because they allow your bodily ego to recover, relax, reflect, let go, and grow. If you are constantly stressed out by toxicity, assault, and negativity, the bodily ego stays rigid and in control and you will struggle to make a connection.
Supportive environments are nurturing environments where all your Seven Essential Needs1 are met. Your home environment should certainly be a supportive environment, and so should your social environment, and your work place as well.
Aligned environments are environments where you are encouraged to, and where you can, act in alignment with your spiritual ego. Since your spiritual ego is an entity of light, life, love, creativity, compassion, empathy, and intelligence, right environments are environments where you can act with love, compassion, empathy, and intelligence.
Right Environment is one of the Three Rs of Alignment, (the others being Right Thought and Right Action) that, when taken together, provide the foundations of Healing and Connection. Taken together, right thought, action, and environment constitute the LPs Alignment Rule Set
Right environments are important for both Healing and Connection. One can neither heal nor connect when coping with Wrong Environment.
The isolation of temple and monastery are an attempt to provide Right Environment
Spiritual teachers [often] comment on the nature and establishment of right environment.
From the Christian Bible, Mathew 5: 21-22.
“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[b][c] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell. Note that Raca is an Aramaic term for contempt.
So, why would Jesus admonish his followers against anger and name-calling? Because such behaviours are out of Alignment and lead to the hellish experience of Disconnection. Right environment is an environment free of all forms of violence, including verbal violence. Even the negative energy of the angry voice is condemened by Jesus Christ.
Because most environments are toxic, right environment often requires the establishment of a cocoon, where we keep toxicity away.
Footnotes
- ↑ Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.
- ↑ Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/.
