“It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.”
— Vivienne Westwood
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One of things I want to do is help make a difference in my community. I love seeing happy, alive people, just getting on with their authentic lives with a spring in their step, unconcerned with what others might think of them.
(How about you? What do you want your life to be about? Do you ever take a moment to find out and/or remind yourself? Take the time. Something I saw recently: “Don’t get so busy making a living you forget to make a life”.)
Anyways – and perhaps this might not be the revelation/teaching point of the decade, but I’ve been seeing how a smile, a hello, a ‘how are you?’ goes such a long way.
Gandhi once wrote that famous line about being the change you want to see in the world. It’s so easy to wait for someone else to make a difference. Getting going in being a difference is making that difference without delay.
But, like all great advice, it’s so easy to ‘yeah yeah’ and put in the knowledge bank yet not actually practice. You want it to be embodied, part of your lived experience, not theoretical.
Experience over theory every time. Practice becomes you. Therefore! What are you practicing?
So –
I must walk past a hundred people on a school run. Probably more. I see bunches of people when I’m out for a run. Heading down to the post office, I pass so many people.
Just by lifting my chin and giving a smile with an optional “Good morning”, I stretch my own comfort zone, and I connect and send a little spark to all those people. Simply enjoying my trip speaks in an intangible yet obvious way.
I say people want joy. I say they want to dance through life. They want a brighter, lighter, happier, more meaningful life.
In this, a smile and shared happiness is super simple and yet speaks so powerfully to remind, especially when consistently done.
I get to go first.
The more I do it, the easier it gets. Waiting for others to be the kind of person I want them to be isn’t going to happen. I get to be the kind of person I want to be regardless of the people around me.
And somehow, with a grin and a hello, others get drawn in too. People respond. I’m doing it because it feels like a great way of having no barriers, of giving, of creating my own reality, but people saying hello back is a nice bonus.
Being a difference, giving it forward: It doesn’t have to be huge – and it’s a win/win.
That’s me this week …
Consider some small way of practicing being the kind of being you want to be. Progress not perfection. Small steps, consistently made is everything.
I’d say come and learn Ascension since that’s the most powerful thing I think you can do to be more You. It’s weird that we need a practice to do this, but there’s so much past history and programming that means it’s hard to authentically show up, it’s difficult to find balance and harmony and a life well-lived.
No longer. There are ways to a life you’re excited by and proud of, and Ascension is one of them. Let me know if you are interested in what it’ll do for you. We can even get on the phone if you like, and I can talk you through to see if it’s for you.
Talk soon!
Arjuna