you're going to make the decision of what you want to do with the information that you're being given i have no power over you you have the power and you need to know that we think so often that we are helpless but we're not helpless because we have our minds we have our minds and you shape and mold your life from moment to moment by your thoughts and your beliefs and your attitudes and you also want to know that you really are important to this world you might say well i really don't do anything but
you are just the fact that you're alive is important and your life has meaning it really does and you can contribute to the peace and the harmony of this planet just by using your mind now some people get involved politically and some people march and some people do peace corps and some people help feed the homeless and do all sorts of things and that's fine but you can also contribute to the peace and harmony of the planet just as much by how you use your mind and remember every time you think every time you're thinking
you're connecting with like-minded people think of that for a minute i heard a quote not long ago that i really like robert schuller who's with the un said that the human species needs to know that we deserve to have peace we have to accept it mentally see a lot of people believe that war is inevitable and that war is forever and that we're always going to have war and i think those people are contributing to it by their thinking contributing to the continuance of wars but if we know that we deserve to have peace and
that it is possible it can become true for us and as we begin by creating peace within us and then within our small circle of family or friends and at our workplaces and then we let this peacefulness ripple out we will find more and more peace on the planet so remember that practicing inner peace will help us to connect with like-minded peaceful people all over the world spirituality connects us all over this planet on a soul level and the sense of cosmic spirituality that is we're experiencing now is just wonderful when i talk about spirituality
i don't always mean religion you know religions have a tendency to separate us and religions often tell us who to love and how to love them and who's lovable and who isn't to me we're all lovable i really believe that we are all worthy of love for love to me is the only thing that's going to bring about lasting cha positive changes to our planet our spirituality is a direct connection with the ultimate higher source and we don't need a middleman for that begin to see our spirituality connecting us all over the planet on a
very deep soul level so what sort of like-minded people do you want to connect with every time you get into judgment and criticism you're connecting with like-minded people out there who are judgmental and critical and this will come back to you remember what we give out always comes back and every time you meditate you're connecting with like-minded people out there who are meditating and meditating to me really means just closing your eyes and going within and being quiet long enough to hear your own inner wisdom you really have the answers within you you have all
the answers within you and you need to quiet down long enough to hear them and that to me is the purpose of meditation it's a connection with yourself with your higher self so every time you do that you're also connecting with other people who are also doing that and every time you do a visualization for healing your body or for healing the planet you're also connecting with like-minded people who are doing the same thing and several times during the day you might stop and ask yourself what sort of people am i connecting with now just
sort of catch your thoughts where you are and are you sort of going oh grumble grumble grumble it's all your fault or are you thinking thoughts to create inner harmony and inner peace because if you create inner harmony you're going to have outer harmony too remember if we want to heal the world we really have to start with healing ourselves because the center of your world is where you are you are the center of your world and so are you and so are you each one of us we are all the center of our own
world so the world goes out from us like ripples in a pond and when we create harmony inside when we're peaceful within then that goes out into the world that harmony and that peacefulness radiates out touching people and places and things you know how it is somebody can walk into a room and they don't have to say a word and you can be attracted to them or you can be repelled by them we react to what they're giving out somehow we feel those vibrations we pick up what people have going on inside of them so
let's make sure that we are re radiating harmony and love i believe that in order to change the planet and to change other people in our lives we need to first change ourselves we need to love ourselves we need to be willing to contribute to our own inner peace and inner harmony and we also need to be honest with ourselves you know we're so good at hiding from ourselves but if we're going to make changes we need to have self-honesty and that doesn't mean putting ourselves down but it does mean being willing to see what
is within us that needs changing it's very self-destructive when we lie to ourselves it's not loving ourselves and it's not being nourishing at all we need to be honest with ourselves and we also need to be honest with other people and we need to learn how to say no in a loving way and not always yes and then do things that we don't want to do and then resent it because we weren't honest enough to say no and i don't think it's so easy to be honest with other people until we can become more honest
with ourselves and the main value of being honest is that whatever we give out in life we always get back and this works on all levels if we belittle or judge others then we too are going to be judged if we're always angry and blaming others then we encounter anger wherever we go if we steal someone's time or if we take away someone's self-respect or if we refuse to acknowledge someone else's good work we can expect these dishonest actions to boomerang back to us as negative experiences on the other hand every time we treat ourselves
with respect every time we nourish and support ourselves and others this also comes back to us as positive experiences no matter how we may try to justify it dishonest actions never work they never work and the more you get on the spiritual pathway the quicker it comes back to you when we take something that doesn't belong to us whether it's a paper clip at the office to major shoplifting or robbery we are in effect telling the universe that we don't feel worthy of earning our own and that we're not good enough that we believe that
there isn't enough to go around that we want to be stolen from or we may believe that we must be sneaky and grab to get our good you know if we believe that it's a dog-eat-dog world then we're going gonna get eaten because that's the way it works these beliefs prevent us from experiencing abundance because they put walls up around us and you don't get to experience the joy and the peace and love in your life if we take from life life will take from us it's that simple and these negative attitudes they're not the
truth of your being you are a divine magnificent expression of life and you deserve the very best you have to know and accept this our planet is abundantly plentiful and our good always comes to us by the right use of consciousness what we believe about ourselves and about our lives will become true for us if we want to change our circumstances we must change our belief systems ask yourself periodically you know what do i really believe about this and think about it and what do i feel and do i really want to do what they're
asking me and why am i doing this start examining your thoughts and what's going on inside of you be honest with yourself and find out what you're really thinking and believing don't just be on automatic pilot all the time you know and say oh well this is the way i am or this is what i do you know why do you do it and if it isn't a positive nourishing experience in your life see if you can figure out where you it came from where did you first do it was that something you were taught
as a child you know maybe it's time to let that one go you don't need that anymore if you have the you know oh this is just the way it is well then with that attitude you can't change it's not possible and also if you know everything if you're a person who knows it all who knows everything you can't change because you can't let a new idea get in we want to be willing to learn and to grow and what we're always working for is more understanding and awareness and knowledge so that we can do
and experience things differently that's all you don't want to berate yourself for what you used to do or where you are or what you don't know or you don't have just learn more study you know go to classes read books listen to tapes talk to other people there's so much stuff that we can learn now it's just wonderful learn about yourself learn about your beliefs learn about the way your particular mind works and is it working in a way that really enhances your life explore a lot of new avenues so that you can begin to
understand more allow new ideas in and expand your consciousness you know we hear so much these days about addictions and we think there are there are many many kinds of addictions besides just the chemical ones you know when we say addiction we immediately think oh the chemical thing but there's also pattern addictions and every one of us has some sort of addiction because they're really patterns that we adopt to keep ourselves from being in present time you know we don't want to deal with what's in front of us so we have some way of getting
away we don't allow ourselves to be where we are and to know what's really going on in our own lives so we each have an addiction i don't know what yours are we all have something whatever it is that we do for some people it's a food addiction for some people it's a chemical addiction and for other people it could be an emotional addiction remember you can even be addicted to finding fault in people a lot of people like that one you can be addicted to fear you know if you're somebody who's addicted to finding
fault in people then no matter what's going on you find somebody else to blame it's their fault they did it or maybe you're addicted to running up bills there are so many people that are so addicted to debt and you know they do everything they can to be over their heads in debt constantly and it doesn't seem to have a lot to do with whether they have any money or not the amount of money and so being in debt if you think of it is an addiction it's a pattern addiction that we do you can
be addicted to rejection to having people reject you and if that's one of your addictions then everywhere you go you're going to attract people who reject you you know who's watching me who's going to reject me who's not going to accept me however the rejection out there is always a mirror a reflection of the rejection that we have within us if you don't reject yourself nobody else is going to reject you or if they do it certainly isn't going to matter you won't pay any attention to it if you get upset because other people are
rejecting you you have to know that's because you're rejecting yourself and so ask yourself honestly how do i reject myself where am i not accepting so you might think about addictions and what addiction you have and could you change your addiction your negative addiction into a positive one if you're going to be addicted to something why don't you be addicted to loving yourself or addicted to doing positive affirmations or addicted to something that really supports you and loves you in this world mankind is connected to one another not by physical or verbal means rather by
something much deeper a spiritual link no matter how far or how different mankind is connected however people have a tendency to doubt themselves to have negative feelings but it doesn't have to be this way and that is because you have a mind and with that mind people can change all they need is the knowledge to know how to change people need to understand that with change or the will to change they can bring inner peace to themselves and as a result that inner peace can spread to the people around them thus affecting everyone one at
a time because only if you have inner peace only then it will spread to the world so never forget every person in this world is important well i hope you guys enjoyed the video and do make sure to share your thoughts with us in the comment section you
