How to Save the World

Posted on November 23, 2007 in Laws Of Attraction by byronb

Yes, the way to save the world is to save yourself.The way to bring joy and peace into the world is to bring joy and peace intoyour heart. The way to alleviate pain and suffering in the world is toalleviate it in your heart. There’s no mystery there, and if that was theend-all and be-all of this article, you might stop reading here, figuring weweren’t really going to get around to what you hoped we were, what the title ofthis article led you to believe we were: how to improve the situations going onin the larger world. You want to know what you can do about war, crime,poverty, and injustice, right? So let’s get into it.

For starters, let’s spend a moment discussing what not todo, what you may be shocked to realize that you’ve already been doing allalong. First, stop fighting. The War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, the War onPoverty, the War on AIDS: all this War consciousnessonly attracts more war consciousness - more thirst for war, more justificationfor it, more things to fight against.

By perceiving the situation as one that must be foughtagainst, you place yourself (and therefore the world) in a state of constantresistance. Your “fighting the good fight” only succeeds in creating more fight- more fighting and more things to fight against.

Secondly, stop dwelling on what’s wrong in the world. Globalwarming, racial intolerance, world hunger - all these things are part of ourshared present reality. And being aware of them is different from being fixatedon them. Being informed is okay; being inundated is not.

So are we advocating ignorance and inaction? Of course not!On the contrary, we’re advocating putting your attention where it can promoteactual change for the better rather than perpetuating and reinforcing aprevailing problem. The best way to illustrate this shift is with a statementmade by the beloved Mother Theresa who said she would never attend an anti-warrally, but would be happy to attend any peace rallies she was invited to.

Make your immediate world, starting from the inside, one ofpeace, tolerance, justice, abundance, etc. As your immediate reality startsshifting to accommodate your internal shift, it will start a chain-reaction,attracting more of that energy around you and, in so doing, expand that energyoutward into more and more of the larger world.

If you take action in the name of any of these larger,humanitarian, environmental or other causes, take positive, proactive action tonurture, foster, and create more of the world you want to live. In a world likethis, there’s no room for fighting, and the more you focus your consciousnesson better things, the more the fighting inside and out will simply fall away.