Reformists and revolutionaries all believe they are bringing about progress and positive change. They hope to make the world a better place. Teachers, preachers, and politicians, I think start out hoping to have a positive influence on people and the world too.

It does not take a reform or a revolution to change the world. Major change is as simple a changing your mind, doing something you have never done before or trying a different way, befriending one person from a group, place, or party that you never thought you would. As long as we stay in our comfort zone, thinking the same old thoughts, doing the same old things, and with the same old folks nothing much is going to change in our world. I would never have learned how much I love seafood if I hadn’t taken a chance on a new friendship with someone who did and who shared that taste with me.

Shake your life up a bit. It is never too late. Entertain just one thought opposite to what you have always thought today and act on it. There is just no telling the difference that might make in you life and in the lives of so many others.

Change the conversation. Raise the vibration. So much of what you hear is a nagging, whining, groan of disapproval and disappointment. How are you? Often is responded to with a long list of aches and pains, a sad recounting of the recent death of a friend or loved one, or the trials and tribulations of a friend or relation or of even the person talking. Then there is the “bad mouthing” of a mate or in-law, some people’s favorite go to subject whenever the conversation lags. You always feel drained, sapped, completely worn out after a conversation with anyone like the above.

Worse even that what we say about things in general and others are the terrible things we say about ourselves: “I’m fat, I’m no good at…, I just can’t… Etc. Makes me want to smack them for talking about my good friend that way.

Some people believe that our vibration is a signal that attracts the like to us. Send out low vibrations low things come to you, trouble, problems, depressing people and situations. If that is in any way how it works we ought to do our best to raise the vibration and change the conversation. A great proverb says , “Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable.” Think and speak only what you are ready to continue accepting in your life.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White