Like What You See In The World? BE THE CHANGE!!

My People - Are you happy with the world as you see it today? I have your reading assignment and I do not make it lightly. "With each sector reporting out the overwhelming challenges we were each facing from this perfect storm, we sought to... discern together what we were each to do. One glaring conclusion was that we had our ladders up against the wrong wall in a most dramatic way. With the global economy the dominant world institution, we all assumed that the environment was a subset of the global economy. In fact, the opposite is true. Common sense dictates that, since we are all supported physically by the earth’s air, water and soil, the global economy is actually a subset of the environment. Further, we realized, there is no way we 6 billion+ people can all get down from one ladder, get across the room and get up the other ladder without massive disruption. The transition is not going to be easy and will take every one of us to our limits…and probably past them! All we can do is each take personal responsibility for our lives and our families and start taking care of home….which is literally our own watershed. We each have to help create a ‘local, living economy’ wherever we live." This is an excerpt from "Trojan Horse of Love" by Susan Davis. It is freely available for download at http://www.capitalmissions.com/ (http://www.capitalmissions.com/THOL_Easter_2011.pdf) If you care about nothing more than your family, or you care about the whole of humanity in the coming times, get and read this. All you women in my network, get and read this. EVERYONE, get and read this. It is critically important. When you get done, or before you get done, pass it on, to EVERYONE.

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The SHIFT, Conscious Evolution, and You...

When we talk about the Shift in our world, it's easy for it to feel abstract and not particularly connected to our daily lives. However, it's an intimate and personal process that begins with you and people like us around the world linking into a potent transformational community.

We build momentum first as thousands and then millions of people begin to act as their own activation point for the larger Shift. And we create a ripple effect that resonates around the world as we each embody a new level of consciousness.

We become our own broadcast station, sending out signals to our family, friends and communities that a new, peaceful, loving and creative humanity IS possible. We serve as divine emissaries -- building bridges, healing wounds, evolving organizations and harmonizing troubled situations. And we all activate the Shift in millions of ways -- small, large, quiet, outward and everything in between.

Many of you feel called to be one of these activation points, and the Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Training has been created just for you, with the next cycle beginning August 9th.

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Among our 825 recent ACE graduates, there's a powerful and palpable sense that they have shifted the ground of their being, unleashing more joy, love, creativity and community than ever before. They have become nodes of light around the world - anchor points for a new pattern to come into being.

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Smokemaster

THE NATURE OF CHANGE

God give me the courage to change the things I can change,

The serenity to accept those things I can’t change,

And the wisdom to know the difference

THE NATURE OF CHANGE
When we are faced with the realities of life we recognize that, ultimately –

1. we cannot change other people,
2. we cannot change the nature of our world,
3. we cannot change the passage of time

What we CAN change is primarily our own attitudes, behaviors, and approaches to things. In essence our responsibility starts and ends with ourselves. Responsibility is an old concept but gets a refreshing revisit from H. Stephen Glenn when he breaks it apart into response-ability – our fundamental ability to respond effectively to the external stimulus and conditions that we encounter in our lives. This works – when you are functioning responsibly in the more conventional sense of the word, we are also functioning response-ably in the H. Stephen Glenn sense of the word. The opposite is also true. This plays back directly into the old saying that we are not defined by what happens to us but by how we respond to what happens to us.

What is it that prompts change? Essentially we reach a tipping point. In any life circumstance there is an inevitable sequence of events, or life cycle, from beginning to end. If that sequence can be anticipated in terms of it’s nature and scope, as well as its impact, the opportunity exists to make a preemptive assessment of one’s best interest in relation to the anticipated outcome. It is reasonable to note here that people tend to run away from things that are bad for them much more, and faster, than they run toward things that are good for them. That having been said, most of the motivation for change can be described as inspiration, no matter whether the catalyst for that inspiration is good or bad.

There are two faces of change – individual change and group change. Inevitably, group change is accomplished through the concerted efforts of a number of individuals working to effect the change in in concert with each other. Based on what we noted previously, this would mean that one or more individuals were inspired to accomplish the change, and then were able to convey this sense of inspiration to the others, until there was a majority in favor or a consensus to pursue the change.

PRECONDITIONS FOR CHANGE

There are preconditions that must be met for any successful change.

1. Recognition that there is a problem – suboptimal conditions, reduction in benevolent outcomes, or simply unhappiness, negative stress, and anxiety as prevalent mental conditions.
2. Determination that there is a better and achievable alternative state of affairs.
3. Determination that the process of change will not exceed the functional parameters for stable continuation of life. This can be a trade-off – if the current condition will ultimately result in untimely or unreasonable death, then the risk associated with a path of change that includes the possibility of death may not be as significant.
4. Necessary resources to effect the change are available.
5. Personal conviction and sense of direction necessary to work through the inevitable difficulties and complete the change.

THE PROCESS OF CHANGE

There is a sequential nature to change. Given that the preconditions have been met, that sequence starts with changing the way you think about the issue. Most conditions that are prevalent are because the people sustaining them have adopted a uniform and consistent pattern of thought in regard to those conditions. This may be a matter of benign tolerance or a matter of abject hopelessness, among other states, but whatever the state there is a sustaining nature to the mental condition of the people enduring the situation. The first requirement of change, then, is to change the way you think about the condition. Get outside the problem, breakdown the stereotypes, and create a new frame of reference. If you change the way you think, you change your beliefs.

Changing your beliefs is the next step in the process of change. If you change the way you think about something then almost as a matter of course you change the nature of what is possible and impossible. As you expand your possibility prospects, you inherently change what you believe.

Beliefs affect Expectations, Expectations affect Attitude, Attitude affects Behavior, and Behavior affects Performance. You get what you envision, what you focus on… or – What you “see” is what you get.