Love Yourself & Change the World

Love Yourself and Change the World

Even though there is a deep knowing inside of me that the world is changing for the better in a big way. I have moments of frustration and despair, when they pass, the next moment I am reminded, sometimes gently sometimes not so gently, I am human and when I embrace my humanness, and accept it, I regain my connection to my inner wisdom. It reminds of the power of gratitude and gratitude brings me to appreciation. This powerful feeling of appreciation of who I am and who I am is part of the whole, who I am is an Infinite Being.
In my ponderings, I wondered how many times I actually feel gratitude for the experiences I deem as negative. There has been much written about gratitude these days, and most of us are aware of its power. It is fairly easy to feel gratitude for the wonderful things in our lives, but it can feel impossible sometimes to feel gratitude for our challenging moments. When we are stuck with a disease or lose our job and can’t pay the bills, or someone we love dies. Is it possible to see what we have to be grateful for in these moments?
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I had realize that there is a fundamental perspective that has to be in place and that is all of life is intelligent. Think about that for a moment; take those five words into your being…’All of life is intelligent’. That would mean that every living thing knows exactly what it is supposed to do. Or another way to look at it is, every living thing moves with the flow of life. That would mean that everything that takes place in our life is exactly the way it is meant to be. It simply ‘Is what it is’. The sun rises every day; the moon goes through its cycles, the season’s change. Nature just flows and does its thing. We are part of that nature, and when we remember that, our lives flow.
For centuries, ‘man’ decided that nature needed improving and that we as humans knew how to improve it. Now we look back and see that maybe that wasn’t actually the best way to approach things. Now we are seeing that when we mess with nature, it creates huge problems. Every time we chop down a tree we are destroying a village, and our solution is to plant new trees. These new trees will eventually become villages for all kinds of life again. But the previous village that was destroyed is gone, and the damage that it caused can never be repaired. We have filled our waters and earth with our indestructible waste and polluted our air.
This is the human’s way of stuffing things down, burying things, because if we cannot see them they don’t exist right? If we don’t acknowledge them or take responsibility for it, it has nothing to do with us, right?
As most of you are feeling, we (the collective we) are at a breaking point. We cannot ignore any more. We cannot blame, we cannot deny, we cannot push down or cover up. This is our time to take responsibility and step up and the place to start is with us.
So, when we lose our job, or get sick or lose a loved one, a shift in perception can remind us of what we have to be grateful for. Stepping back and looking at the big picture will give us the perspective of connectedness. It will remind us we are not alone, and when we feel pain, we are feeling it because we are alive. We are part of the whole; we are a drop of water in the ocean. If I throw this plastic bag into the woods, it could cause harm. If I think that ‘I am only one person what can I do?’ think again. We’ve done that, been there. Let’s be grateful for our intelligence to learn from our mistakes. Let’s be grateful that our planet is still alive and we can do something about it.
We have proof of what one person at a time can do, one person at a time created the earth as it is now and one person at a time can change it back to the paradise we all know it once was.
It is much easier than we think. Our first step is to love ourselves, to see all that we have to be grateful for. Actually that is the only step, because once we truly see the beauty in ourselves, once we love ourselves completely as we are, the rest will follow. When we see our own beauty, we naturally see the beauty in everything else. It really is that simple. Love yourself and change the world.
Tuning into your gratitude, really seeing and appreciating what is, is the way to turn your human light switch on. Once yours is on, it can light someone else’s, and so on, and so on.
I honour the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honour the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, WE are one.

Namasté