"Be the change you want to see in the world”
If
you change yourself, you’ll inspire your loved ones to change. If you change
your loved ones, you will inspire your friends and others around them to change
and the whole city and the whole country can be changed. You will change your
world and its all starts with you. If you change your world, you change the way
that you perceive things around you. Not only because you are now viewing your
environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the
change within can allow you to tap into resources that you didn’t realise that
you had before. When we are stuck in our old thinking pattern and self pity we
won’t have any options but go in a loop of thought forms, and stuck in there.
The
problem with changing your outer world without changing yourself is that you
will still be you when you reach that change you have strived for. You will
still have your downs, negativity, self-sabotaging tendencies, excessive self
criticism, and all sorts of negative emotions including anger and sadness. So,
first we have to focus on our negative emotions, and all the old baggage that
we carry within us and get rid of them.
How
can we do that? Well, most of us don’t want to even go into their emotions and
analyse or do anything about it. We simply ignore it. Until we are pushed to
the edge most of us don’t want to take responsibility for their own problems.
It becomes much easier to blame others and carry on with our life with a victim
mentality. Most of us carry on with our life like that; it only takes away the
power from you and gives the power to someone else to control your
emotions. We can get rid of those
negative emotions by going back and learning the lessons from those events, understanding and accepting we are all
human and let go of the negative emotions and take the learning with you.
You
can also sit down and think about each and every emotion that you have and what
are the causes of it? Important part is,
not to blame anyone (including you), if you blame others for the cause you will
never move forward in your life and you will be stuck. But if you take
responsibility and say, okay this happened now I can look at the events from my
past and take the learning and let go of all the negative emotions. This will
give you the power to be in charge of your own emotions and in charge of you.
Our
ego likes to be tamed, and it uses our negative emotions as it’s’ lenses to see
the world. Our ego wants attention and if we don’t practice character building,
ego may grow more powerful. Your own ego is possessive of you, so it loves to
divide things, to find enemies and to create separation it may start to try to
create even more problems and conflicts in your life and world. And we then
start to believe what we see is the only reality and start arguments and
conflicts with others around.
Carl
Jung says “Perception is Projection”. He was saying that our perception about
things around us and the things that we see around us is only our Projection of
us. We are projecting to the world what is within us. I belief that is something to think about and consider.
If
we want to see a harmonious and peaceful world, then we must be the change that
we want to see in the world.
You
can read bit more about it on my previous blog post: http://aumcare.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/if-you-do-what-you-have-always-been.html
