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The Old Paradigm  (Source: wanttoknow.info)

In order to give empowering suggestions for building a brighter future, we first need to speak candidly about what’s going on right now. It appears that there is a relatively small, powerful group of elites who desire to control as much of the world as possible. They exert control through manipulation of public perception and through using the ever-increasing power of huge multinational corporations. As these mega-corporations increasingly stretch their fingers into almost every aspect of our lives, the control group’s influence and power over us grows ever stronger. This allows them to use us for their own personal gain as our freedoms are increasing taken away, often without our even realizing it.

The means for establishing this control are through destroying purpose and creating fear and victimization in our lives. Television, radio, and movies are filled with greed, violence, and empty sex. Our educational system increasingly prioritizes passing tests over developing intelligence and creativity. Corporate control of the media limits what news we receive, and often shapes our decisions and the way we think. All this and more adds up to the “dumbing down” of America. Our attention is being diverted from our deeper purpose in life to the superficial attractions of sex, consumerism, and money. The control group is manipulating people all over the world into losing touch with their spiritual core as they subtly convince us that what they want is what we want.

The control group also manipulates us through keeping us in fear and in the role of victim. “America is under attack! Your job, savings, and retirement are no longer secure. The terrorists want to kill us all. You are either for us or against us. This war will never end.” All of these messages are designed to push us into fear. And by encouraging us to focus blame on terrorists and “evil” leaders, those in control push us towards the role of helpless victims, and away from feeling in control of our lives. The more we slip into fear and feeling like victims, the easier it is for us to be manipulated. Through continually weakening our sense of purpose in life, and through increasing our level of fear and victimization, the control group is increasingly able to manipulate us into doing just what they want us to do.

A New Paradigm

What can we do about all this? Several actions can help us to step away from being controlled and to step fully into our own creative energy and power. First, we can choose to live with full awareness of our purpose and intentions in life. To live full, rich lives in today’s world, it’s vitally important that we each find and develop our own, unique intentions and life purpose. We must then choose to live that purpose and to live our intentions as fully as we can. If we set aside time to deeply explore what is most meaningful in our lives, we can reclaim our power. Consider writing down your life purpose and intentions and reviewing them often. As we develop and live our life intentions, we are choosing to give less focus to the seduction of consumerism and media hype, which deaden our ability to create. Instead, we are choosing to build a brighter future filled with meaning and purpose for us.

Second, we can become conscious of when we slip into fear, and choose to transform our fear into love. When we notice ourselves being overtaken by fear, we can trace the roots of that fear, so that we are able to identify our core issues and deal more consciously with them. We can open to guidance from friends, teachers, and spiritual sources in moving from fear to love. We can also choose to open to the ever-present love of God, and to the love that lies always deep in our own hearts, and in the hearts of those close to us. In doing this, we begin to recognize fear as an invitation to growth.

We can also become aware of when we are playing the role of the helpless victim and choose to take responsibility for building a better future. When we blame “them” for our problems, we often avoid taking responsibility for how much we determine our reactions to what happens to us. Whenever we catch ourselves blaming others for everything that’s wrong in our lives, we can choose instead to look inside ourselves and find our role in what’s wrong. We can then do our best to improve our lives by working on ourselves. By taking more responsibility for the way we respond to everything that happens to us—by starting from the inside in making change—we can open to our own creative potential and choose to play a more active role in building a healthy, happy future both for us and for those around us.

In choosing love and personal responsibility over fear and victimization, we step out of the old paradigm of “good vs. evil,” of “us vs. them.” We open to the realization that every one of us, each in our own way, is doing what we believe to be right based upon our beliefs, circumstances, and upbringing. We focus less on judging ourselves and others, and more on loving and healing all of us. We begin to embrace a new paradigm where we recognize that deep down, all of us are divine beings worthy of love. By challenging ourselves to move beyond fear, blame, and judgment, and by challenging ourselves to live with a desire to love, to heal, and to empower the divine spark in all people, we are creating a new paradigm and a building a brighter future for us all.

And finally, we can come together in groups to support each other. In these groups, we share our life intentions and encourage each other to live these intentions. We support each other in transforming fear into love. We inspire each other to take responsibility for our lives and to develop our creative potential. We make a commitment, both in these groups and with those close to us, to love and support each other to the best of our ability. Invite groups you’re already involved in to use some of these ideas, and consider exploring global groups which have this focus. When we gather in groups to remind each other of our purpose and intentions in life, we join in building an inspiring network of love and support around the planet.

These suggestions are biased towards changing the world by starting inside of ourselves. By starting with change on the inside, we develop a solid foundation. This gives us more balance and strength to then work towards change outside of us. It is important to do what we can out in the world to stop the manipulating, destructive behaviors of the control group and others. Yet when we focus on trying to change the outside world without first having a solid internal foundation, it’s easy to fall into blaming others, and into the “us vs. them” ways of thinking of the old paradigm.
 
As we change ourselves from the inside out, we send ripples of inspiration and healing out into the world. By coming together to support each other in creating a new paradigm, those ripples become waves of love and empowerment which help to harmonize the entire fabric of the universe. If each of us is willing to make a commitment to focus on our unique purpose and intentions in life, on choosing love and personal responsibility, and on supporting all around us in doing the same, we will create a brighter future for us all.

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