When we get to a point on our paths when our awareness is increasing, it’s common to feel a sense of overwhelm about the state of the world in which we find ourselves. War, poverty, hunger, corruption. It can be an even harder pill to swallow when we figure out that most of these problems were deliberately created to put more money, power and control in the hands of the few.

We ask ourselves — what can I do to make a difference? Should I take up activism? Give to charity? Research and expose deception?

While all of those things are important and have their place — they’re also reactionary. They might help a few individuals, but they probably won’t make a dent in the source of these problems. In order for real change to take place on a wider scale, there needs to be a shift in consciousness — a fundamental change in the way that people operate and relate to each other. How can we help bring this shift into being at an individual level?

“Change yourself, and everything changes.”

This isn’t just a New Age cliche. We are all part of a vast network, connected at the energetic level. When we change something about ourselves, the energy we’re putting out changes accordingly. At the subconscious level, everyone connected to us then has a choice to make: either they find our new direction agreeable and it gives them a boost toward making their own change, so that they remain compatible with us. Or, they choose to stay where they are, and most likely drift out of our lives.

It can be hard to see this in action since most of the time when we change, we do so gradually, often unconsciously, in response to other people and circumstances. When we change in a reactionary way, we are part of the effect rather than the cause. When we’re against something, we negate our own best intentions because the subconscious, the collective unconscious and the universe itself don’t register negatives. When we’re for something, when we decide in advance what we’d like to see more of in our lives and change ourselves to reflect that, is when we become part of the solution.

My approach involves a combination of learning who I am and deciding what kind of person I will be, and using techniques I’ve developed to affect changes in myself quickly, at deep levels. This has been known to produce rapid, even volatile shifts in my life circumstances. While this can be initially jarring, it has also given me the opportunity to learn how the “network” operates by witnessing it firsthand, often in startling ways. One of the things I have learned is that when we change, we send out a ripple effect that compels change in those we’re connected to. Or, if they choose not to change with us, they drift out of our lives. More than once I have made sudden significant changes in my life, only to begin seeing a wave of people in my sphere of influence making similar changes in their own — regardless of whether we were in direct contact, or even whether they knew what was going on with me. Needless to say my experience with this phenomenon really opened my eyes to the power of a single individual to bring about real change. It’s not hard to imagine how this principle would play out in the world if more people stopped being reactionary, stopped trying to control external circumstances and people, and instead focused on being masters of themselves. When it comes down to it, controlling other people and outcomes is ultimately futile. Our own selves are the one thing we are able to have control over — but therein lies the source of our personal power, and our ability to be a force for positive change.

Our ideal world will not be created by one group forcing its will on others, much less by force of arms. Each of us can begin helping to create our ideal world now, by striving to BE the kind of person who would populate it.

–Palehorse

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