What If You Could Fix The World?

It feels like the world is off kilter. Global conflicts, seemingly unbelievable election results, escalating climate change and cost of living crises.

As each news event breaks, it can feel like we, as a society, are cast further and further adrift. Floating away from a safe harbour that offers peace, security, abundance and ease.

Over the last number of years, I’ve felt a range of emotions in response to current events. Anger, despair, outrage, confusion and disappointment. Mostly, a loss of control.

It can be hard to make sense of current times and easy to look outwardly to assign blame. That it’s other people who are creating this mess. Plus, there’s a tendency to assign labels – “I am the good person here, and they are the bad or misguided people doing these wrongs.”

But over the last year, I have come to see things differently.

The world is a mirror of our own suffering

What if the current events of the world are in fact a reflection of our collective inner being? And if there’s a collective, by correlation, the world must also be reflective of my own inner being.

Woah, that was a bitter pill to swallow!

It meant that my ‘good person’ persona needed to be dropped. If the outer state is reflecting my inner state, I am also responsible for the pain and suffering in the world.

It meant asking myself questions:

• Where am I at war with myself?
• Where am I not being a protector and custodian of my own inner nature?
• Where am I choosing fear over love?
• Where am I rejecting abundance?

This perspective not only offers insight, but also compassion, which is a bridge to unity and understanding. If I am at war within myself, I can understand someone else being at war within themselves.

The world is suffering – the land and oceans, plants and animals. Outwardly and inwardly, so are we. People are at war with one another, chronic disease is on the rise and mental health impacts one in four across the globe.

We’ve forgotten who we are. We are living our lives from our ego selves, not from our higher beings. We have forgotten our connection to systems outside of ourselves – the natural world, the animal world and human society.  

The external pain and suffering we witness is an invitation to go inwards.

When we heal our inner wounds, we can heal the world around us. When we live from a place of love, we send a ripple of energy to counter the collective fear. When we remember the interconnected place we came from in the natural world, we start to become custodians and nurturers of nature around us. When we express ourselves with authenticity, love and courage, we give permission to those around us to do the same.

There is a compass within us that helps us navigate back to a healthy, abundant and peaceful co-existence with each other and nature.

I invite you now to take a minute or two to go within. Switch off your phone, close your eyes, breathe deeply in and out. Shut out the world for just a few minutes. Release your mind ‘noise’ and in the calm, notice what’s within, waiting for you to see.

The world is a mirror. In the quiet of your mind and heart, in the remembrance of who you are and where you come from, then you can radiate this image back out to the world. Who knows what ripple effect you may cause.