MEBO PATM : Activism: a change in values, thinking and perception

RAISING AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

In order for an activist campaign such as our community’s Raising Awareness Campaign, to come together and to be successful, we first need to fully understand what it entails and why we should undertake such a task. Throughout the years, for centuries, sufferers have had to endure this condition in shame and isolation, with no hope of finding a solution.

It requires a solid foundation of an internationally organized community comprised of sufferers turned activists!

The primary focus of MEBO’s Raising Awareness Campaign is to promote and direct changes in the medical and scientific institution throughout the world. This Campaign calls for these institutions to learn how to actively listen to sufferers when presenting their symptoms, to then have the wherewithal at their disposal to prescribe the appropriate diagnostic tests in order to arrive at a proper treatment plan and a cure. It is also geared towards raising awareness in the public and political arena in order to obtain large research grants to support the scientific and medical fields in providing the proper medical care.

WHAT DOES THE RAISING AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
REQUIRE FOR SUCCESS?

IT REQUIRES A SOLID FOUNDATION OF AN INTERNATIONALLY ORGANIZED COMMUNITY COMPRISED OF SUFFERES TURNED ACTIVISTS!

This change in values, thinking and perceptions leads to a deepened sense of purpose and a richer network of support to draw from,
and the individual transforms from a victim position to an activist position –
bringing about change.

It requires that all sufferers around the world realize that a deeper personal change in values, thinking and perception about having this condition is fundamental. Each one individually has to stop and take a good look at himself or herself and ask if the approach one has been taking is productive or destructive – TO BELIEVE THAT ONE REMAINS NEUTRAL IS DELUSIONAL!. Either we change centuries of sufferers’ attitudes of shame and reclusive behavior and become part of the solution, or we promulgate the status quo by taking no action; the latter has proven to be very destructive throughout history.

HOW DO WE CHANGE FROM WITHIN?

The turning point involves a broadening of personal identity and a shift toward feeling more deeply connect with, and part of, life itself. We begin to feel alive by, instead of nurturing self-defeatism, developing a personal identity with being a member of an international community that is on a mission to “fix this problem” and to make life right for ourselves and our offspring.

It can also be viewed as a spiritual process, as many call it after attending a meetup. This change in values, thinking and perceptions leads to a deepened sense of purpose and a richer network of support to draw from, and the individual transforms from a victim position to an activist position – bringing about change. We can persist with this campaign in the most peaceful yet proactive manner, until we are finally taken seriously.

The following poem, by Joanna Macy, edited into verse by Tom Atlee, expresses the grace received when saying "yes" to being a part of the solution.

When you act on behalf
of something greater than yourself,
you begin
to feel it acting through you
with a power that is greater than your own.

This is grace.

Today, as we take risks
for the sake of something greater
than our separate, individual lives,
we are feeling graced
by other beings and by Earth itself.

Those with whom and on whose behalf we act
give us strength
and eloquence
and staying power
we didn't know we had.

We just need to practice knowing that
and remembering that we are sustained
by each other
in the web of life.
Our true power comes as a gift, like grace,
because in truth it is sustained by others.

If we practice drawing on the wisdom
and beauty
and strengths
of our fellow humans
and our fellow species
we can go into any situation
and trust
that the courage and intelligence required
will be supplied.

Poem taken from website at http://www.co-intelligence.org/Grace_Macy.html
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PLEASE BE PREPARED TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY'S EMAIL CAMPAIGN ON JULY 19TH, organized by Karen James aimed at the Medical Research Council (MRC) in protest of their rejection of the much needed research grant our experts put together in the UK. Thanks to all who participate.

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