Resisting Violence Increases Violence

FOR too long my fellow countrymen and women have become content with fighting rape, murder, AIDS, drugs, violence, poverty, corruption; the list is endless.

We have the tendency to fight everything we don’t want, which in turn creates more unwanted events. Everything we focus on, we create more of. As we focus our rage and anger on rape and murder in Namibia, we are adding our energy to them. As a result we get even more women being raped and killed.
For some reason we believe that the strategy to eliminate rape and killing in our nation is to hold huge demonstrations and talk about it. Energy flows where attention goes, whether its negative or positive energy. “What you resist persists” said Carl Jung (1875-1961).
We need to educate and guide our nation to focus on how to love, how to have a good and healthy romantic love life, how to treat one’s partner in a relationship, how to trust, how to live in abundance of peace and in harmony.
It’s a taboo among us, especially blacks, to hold hands in public, to even kiss or show love towards one another through public displays of affection. Instead we wait until it’s dark to show love. That ought to change.
I believe that through focus on the positive solutions we can eliminate and obliterate all negatives in our society. Let’s join hands to manifest in what we want for Namibians rather than what we don’t want.

Sarah Apollus
Mariental

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