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“The entire universe is inside you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

This blog is about how to create positive change within ourselves and the world.

It can be hard for some of us to acknowledge but the world we see “out there” is ultimately the product of our collective creation. How can it be any other way?

We may protest “but I’m not a part of child trafficking or deforestation or a greedy conglomerate” – yet indirectly most of us have likely still played a part – perhaps by not speaking up against injustice, or by buying from that exploitative company. Or maybe we’ve found ourselves helplessly thinking “well, there’s nothing that little me can do on my own, so the only choice is to accept the way things are.” Said 8 billion people!

You may be asking yourself though “well, if we accept that we have played a part in ‘choosing’ the world that we see today, why would those of us who consider ourselves overall ok / good people ‘choose’ to create and allow a world that is full of suffering, sickness, hunger, exploitation and inequality?” Firstly if we look closely at this planet, it is by nature one of duality – this is an inescapable fact and the means by which we learn. There can’t be light without dark, satisfaction without hunger, health without sickness, pleasure without pain, love without loss, life without death. Despite these natural laws, we have also been given free will to choose how to spend our time and what to create during our time on planet earth. We have also been gifted with advanced brains and emotional intelligence that give us an ability to choose how to react and respond to life’s experiences. The way in which we choose to respond (and the meaning we give to these life experiences) comes down to our level of consciousness – the lens through which we understand our life.

My personal understanding is that we are spiritual beings here to learn, grow and evolve though experiencing life (probably multiple lives) in a human body. We have to go through different stages in our learning, gradually moving from a ‘self’ centered consciousness (with the tendency to see ourselves as victims of a harsh and unfair world), towards a more expansive and spiritual state of being where we learn that we have the power to create our own reality.

In the early stages of our development, we tend to project our pain onto the world around us. This is what we are currently seeing in the world now. The particular themes of abuse of power and greed are those that we have collectively agreed to address on a soul level at this time in history and great healing is possible if we go through these tumultuous times with awareness, trust, and the willingness to evolve.

– It takes a person who is experiencing incredible hurt, anger or fear to cause hurt to another. (Who hasn’t been there at some point in their life, even if only in a minor way?)

– It takes someone with a lot of fear-based mental programmes to feel the need to overly control other people or events to ‘feel safe’. (Can you relate? I certainly can.)

– An unhealed person who experienced a dangerous sense of ‘powerlessness’ in childhood may seek abusive ‘power over’ another (if it is the only way they can find to alleviate their own terror). This doesn’t make such behaviour ‘right’ but we can certainly understand the ‘why’.

– Someone who is lost in their own pain and suffering may also perhaps struggle with having much leftover energy to give to or empathise with others, to see beyond their own struggles. (This was me for a very long time.)

Our early childhood and mental programming shape the way that we perceive ourselves and the world. Wounded parents often transfer their own wounds and limiting beliefs onto their children, often inadvertently, who then transfer them onto their own children (if they haven’t yet healed themselves). We also bring these wounds into our closest relationships (and if we are not aware, can blame them on our partners for ‘causing’ them all over again) and also our relationships with work colleagues, friends, neighbours and the people we encounter throughout our lives.

If we would like to see positive change in the world, one of the best things we can do is to look at what we still need to heal and resolve within ourselves – at what we are projecting outwards into the world. We need to commit to gently, lovingly, healing our wounds from within, to giving ourselves all the things that we felt were missing, to make peace with the past and find meaning in our experiences.

Let’s take this journey together…