We are now well-into the Time of Changes, and the dramas in our world (and lives) are deepening. Conflict is everywhere, and the struggle over who will set the course of our future is intense.

How can your expanding consciousness help you move through these challenges with more peace and ease while creating the future YOU want?

These are turbulent times. No one needs reminding that the extremes now seize the day, exacerbating their polarizing differences with every skirmish they fight.

However, despite the tug of such forces upon us, our peace -- and indeed our lives and the future of our world -- depend upon moving beyond them so we can all get where we want to go.

Perhaps it would be in order for us to take a moment to consider where that might be.

I want to apologize to all the Lightbearers around the world for my focus on U.S. politics in recent weeks. It is not my intention to be so provencial in my approach, but the health care fight offered me the chance to learn much more about myself and the energetic threads that make me who I am.

To summarize, I found within me support for some of both sides' arguments, as well as deep opposition to the methods and intentions of both that were so apparent in their battles.

Such inner conflicts exist within each of us. The outer mind dislikes ambiguity, so usually we try to emphasize one and squelch the others to give the appearance of a unified focus. But no matter which way we express ourselves, those conflicts keep eating us up inside -- just as I suspect the health care fight and others will continue to eat away at the American body politic for those who do not learn from them.

Congratulations to all those who supported the health care bill. Condolences to those who didn't. Why not call a truce and take a break before you resume your war?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're fighting an illusory fight, the product of beliefs and practices lodged within the mass consciousness that keep us perpetuating a drama of conflict to ameliorate the harshness of a system where some win while others lose.

I hate to break it to you, but it's a fight we can never win. Because we're like dogs chasing our tails, continually trying to catch something that always remains just beyond reach.

The biggest fights of the health care debate aren't going on in Congress. At least within my life, they're happening in me.

On the one hand, I am a freedom fighter for the rights of the individual. Each soul is vested with the right of self-determination, and I have never accepted the fact that a tyrannous majority can force their desires upon a dissenting minority and run roughshod over Constitutional protections.

On the other, I recognize the problems with our health care system, and shudder at many of the harsh policies followed by insurers regarding pre-existing conditions, dropping or denying coverage. After all, much of my legal career was spent fighting insurance companies to part them from their dollars to right wrongs. So there's little love lost when they do their best not to pay claims.

The ruckus over health care is calling "we the people" to awaken from our collective slumber and ask if this is the best we can do?