Issue 8, June 8, 2009
— Guy Finley, You Can Change the World
In this issue:FEATURE: Wayne W. Dyer, Excuses Begone! Part two Ask Caroline Sutherland Sharon Elaine, Affirmations For Life — Forgiveness Guy Finley, You Can Change the World Meryl Ann Butler, Armageddon or Quantum Leap? Dr Bill Path, Humanity's Pursuit of Purpose Cindy Ashton, Kiss Your Monsters Goodbye Anne Hartley, Creating Harmony WithinWider Screenings, James Bond, Partisan...EventsReviewsEarlier issues
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You Can Change the World by Guy Finley
A great secret rests inside the heart of every human being:
Each of us is created with the power to change the whole world.
Every
human being is born into this world with a nascent interior light. We
can think of this light as the power of higher conscience by whose
compassionate intelligence we learn to discern what is helpful from
what is harmful — to intuitively know the difference between what is
good and true, and what is dark and destructive.
When we do our
part to make this power active within us, we begin to realize the great
truth that nothing on Earth has the power hurt us. After all, how can
any negative force prevail if the light of conscience reveals its
unsavory character before it begins its punishing action? Just think of
the promise in such a power! Fear, stress, worry, anger, regret, and
resentment could hold no sway over our hearts and minds. We are
liberated to do what is right and loving in any moment we choose — no
matter the circumstances life brings our way.
Now, you may ask, “That’s a wonderful idea, but what does my own higher conscience have to do with changing the world?”
In
a word, everything! Consider this: Is there any spec speck
of light anywhere in the universe that isn’t part of all the light in
the universe? The answer is “no.” Our own common sense, ancient wise
philosophers, and modern Quantum physicists all agree: Light is
timeless and indivisible.Ancient wise philosophers, modern Quantum
physicists, and our own common sense all agree : Light is timeless and
indivisible.
Building on this truth, let’s ask another important
question: Is there any spec speck of darkness anywhere in the
universe that isn’t part of darkness everywhere in the universe? Again,
the answer is evident. For instance, is the dark hatred or fear that
consumes a soul in Britain any different in nature from a similar dark
state that consumes someone in Brazil — even though the two are
thousands of miles apart? We can clearly see that they are both part of
the same darkness.
Now, here’s why this idea is exciting to
those of us who truly wish to change the world: If we bring light into
any darkness anywhere, is not darkness everywhere made less? Mustn’t
even the tiniest bit of light added to even the greatest darkness leave
that same darkness not so impenetrable? The answer is a brilliant yes!
Once
we agree to actualize the Living Light in our own individual life,
everything around us, including those things beyond the sphere of our
awareness, is altered in its fundamental makeup. Negating even the
smallest negative positively changes the whole of reality. All that’s
required to realize this promising fact in our life, is that we first
understand the possibility of changing the world, and then make the
specialized interior effort to effect this grand transformation of
life. . . .
And here’s exactly how we do it: we no longer
allow ourselves to identify with any negative state, regardless of why
that state tells us we must embrace its painful presence. We must
become as ruthless in detecting and rejecting dark thoughts and
feelings as they have been ruthless in wrecking our lives.
Each
time we say “I” to what is destructive or corruptive in us, we actually
incorporate and reinforce that same dark state. For example, when we
say, “I am angry,” or “I am stressed out,” we literally give consent
for the dark force of anger or stress to live inside of us. We become
the embodiment of the negative state, and it strengthens its hold on
our heart and mind. I know this may seem like a radical idea, but if we
observe this process in action, we find that it’s absolutely true.
Whenever
we identify with negative forces, we unknowingly provide them with two
conditions they can’t otherwise have: First, we give these chaotic
states a place to appear within a plane of reality to which they
ordinarily have no other access. And second, at the same time, we lend
them the vital life energies they must have to sustain their
life-draining presence within our psychic system.
There is great
power contained in this new understanding, for when we refuse to supply
negative states with the vehicle and the life force they need to
survive, they cannot flourish. Withdraw water from where weeds grow,
and they will wither; it’s a natural law. So, if we wish to end the
relationship with what compromises us, we are only required to do one
thing: we must no longer lend ourselves to the will of any dark state
looking to use us as its vehicle.
This means that in moments of
trial, our first task is to wake up, become fully aware of ourselves,
and then dare to do the light thing. Here are five simple exercises
that you can use to prove this powerful universal principle to yourself:
1. Help make the life of someone else go a little easier in spite of it making yours go a little harder. 2. Refuse to criticize yourself — or anyone else — for not living up to your expectations. 3. Give no voice to any part of you that wants to complain about anything. 4.
Catch yourself in a dead run to get something done and voluntarily drop
out of the race by deliberately assuming a casual pace. 5. Take one difficult moment and use it as a place to start all over instead of a time to sink into self-pity.
By
practicing with these five exercises, you will discover the great power
behind the principle of not giving life to negative states. You will
begin to see how when we do the work to change ourselves, the whole of
life begins to the change for the better. Our health improves, our
relationships improve, and we begin to realize our part in the great
work of becoming a brighter and brighter embodiment of the light of the
world. ###
FEATURE: Wayne W. Dyer, Excuses Begone! Part two 
