Create Change in Your life (Part 1)

Part 1: Start with your thoughts

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Ghandi said" Be the change you wish to see in the world". I've heard the quote everywhere in my life. Not just from spiritual teachers but also in the workplace. Corporate leaders began hiring coaches to learn more about themselves so they could become better leaders. We began to hear this quote as a part of the public discourse. But what does it really mean to" be the change"? 

When I first heard the quote, I was on my spiritual path, beginning to learn more about myself and developing my spiritual beliefs. I took it at face value and started to work with the idea of how my choices impacted others. I started incorporating this philosophy into my life and focused on how I showed up in the world. Be the change - if you don't like a particular experience, then use your own actions to inspire change, to influence how others behave by setting a good example. Seems simple enough. I practiced living with integrity and taking accountability for my actions in the hopes of leading others to do the same. It felt noble and I saw some success, but I didn't really see the change in others. I kept experiencing people with a lack of integrity or authenticity and there were a lot of folks opting out of accountability. 

As time has gone on, and I have continued to learn and grow on my spiritual path, I began to gain a greater understanding of how the world works on an energetic level. I began to learn that everything we experience in the physical world is energy in motion. The science of physics has a principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed, simply altered or changed. As human beings, we not only have a physical body, we also have an energy body. This energy body exists within our physical structure with different energy centers and extends out beyond our physical body to radiate into our environment. The energy centers, or chakras, help to generate and circulate energy throughout the body. Chinese medicine works with this same energy, called Chi, at a much finer level where there are various meridians of energy flowing between organs and structures in the body. This energy carries the information from our thoughts and beliefs and is what is used to create our experience. Some call this synchronicity, where we think of something and it begins showing up in our experience. Like when we are thinking of a friend and the next moment they text us. We have the ability to create our experience through this energy that stems from our thoughts and beliefs. This means the experience we have in the outer world is simply a reflection of our inner world. 

This discovery changed the meaning of "be the change" to become something even more powerful. If I didn't like what was in my experience, and I wanted to change it, I needed to understand the thoughts and beliefs I held that contributed to creating that experience. This also empowered me to approach life from a perspective of choice rather than a perspective of fate. I can choose my thoughts and beliefs if I become aware of them. This awareness allows me to notice when I'm choosing to be influenced by the world around me or by the thoughts and beliefs of others. Now I can really understand that I'm not just changing behaviour, but also the thoughts and beliefs underneath that behaviour. I am embodying even more the change I want to see. 

The other lesson I began to incorporate into my life was the law of attraction. This stems from another concept from the science of physics related to resonance. Energy has an attribute of vibration that can be measured. This vibration is influenced by resonance. Where two different sources of energy meet, they will come into resonance, meaning vibrate at the same frequency. Energy also has an attribute of magnetism whereby like attracts like. So the energy we emit will attract energy of the same vibration and frequency. This means that we co-create our experience by attracting energy that is the same frequency of the thoughts and beliefs we are putting out into the world. So, to "be the change" we need to vibrate our energy body at the same frequency of that which we want to see, attract and experience. How do we know what that frequency is? The answer is through a third layer called the emotional body. Emotions help us to translate our energy frequency into something we can understand and actively work with to influence and ultimately create our experience. 

So now, I have learned to be intentional about the thoughts I choose and the beliefs I hold to focus on and create the change I want to see in my life, and ultimately in the world. I don’t know about you, but to me, this is pretty powerful stuff!

Stay tuned for my next article where we’ll dive into the energy of emotions and discover how we can learn to use our emotions as clues to the state of our thoughts and beliefs.

Next article: Part 2: the energy of emotions.