Most important to you and to the world is how you feel in your heart right this moment. Without exception, this is your gift to the world. Whether you hide what is in your heart or talk about it all the time, the truth of what you feel gets out there and stirs the world clockwise or counterclockwise. It is as if you are a telegram that goes over the wires. Your wire doesn’t have to be seen and read for it to be broadcast. It just has to be typed, and its message reaches everywhere. Like moisture in the air, it is just there. You don’t have to think about it. It’s just there, and it affects you whatever is written. You don’t have to be conscious of it for it to affect you.

There are many messages going around over the airwaves.

You also send subconscious messages to yourself. You don’t even have to know you’re sending them. And you read them, and the messages sink in. You may meet someone who is hard for you to tolerate for even one minute. Perhaps the person reminds you of someone from the past, and you stiffen. You don’t know precisely why you stiffen. All you know is that you are not comfortable with this person.

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Transformation is the essence of all things. There is nothing in this universe that doesn’t undergo transformation. All things change, all things adapt, all thing re-form themselves. It is an immutable law of the universe, a dance that has been taking place since the beginning of time, and will last to its end.

Yet most people hate change. As humans, it seems each of us has an aversion, in one way or another, to this most fundamental law. Yet so few of us are living the lives we feel we should be, that we know we could be. Far from being something that the world has done — and continues — to do to us, it is rather a case of what we have failed to do, and what we have failed to be. If you can change yourself, you can change the world, simple as that. And where does all of this ‘change’ start? In the mind, of course.

By Carolanne Wright

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

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By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

I enjoy writing reports about enlightenment, but some of the advice we’ve been given by spiritual teachers from the past isn’t quite relevant to the present.

Depending on which teacher you listen to, the veil was much thicker when they shared their teachings with the world. We’re capable of achieving a lot more in terms of consciousness exploration than when a lot of spiritual teachers were in their prime, and this is a liberating thing to realize.

The veil’s a lot thinner than it used to be, and all it takes is a small meditation to realize that we can glimpse a higher state of consciousness pretty easily.

Exploring our consciousness gets easier with every year that passes, and all we need to do is show a little effort to glimpse things that might’ve been unheard of in some spiritual teachers’ heyday.