Be the change you want to see in the world

 

"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