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Shifting from the External to the Internal

by Meghan McChesney Gilroy

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, then change your attitude.  – Maya Angelou

The quality of your life is largely dependent on your emotions – how you feel moment to moment. You could have all the money, all the success, all the toys in the world and still experience a poor quality of life if you are unhappy. The converse is also true: you could have nothing on a material level and still have a high quality of existence if you are happy. Your opinion of yourself most likely fluctuates depending on how well the job is going, whether you and your partner are getting along or not – or whether you have no partner to get along with at all. The level of stress in your busy life rises and falls with the balance in your bank account. When someone compliments you, you feel good and when someone criticizes you, you feel rotten or get mad. It appears that the external informs the internal, that what is happening on the outside dictates how you are feeling on the inside. In reality the opposite is true.

Any change in your life is going to ultimately come from the inside. Trying to change jobs, partners, or locations will unfortunately not do it. In fact trying to change anything on the outside will only result in frustration. Think of your partner’s or co-worker’s most annoying habit. No matter how many times you’ve asked him or her to change or you’ve tried to fix it, have you achieved results? Probably not. That’s why when you become fed up and point your finger at a problem outside of you, then get rid of the boyfriend or girlfriend, sooner or later you notice that you’re having similar problems and issues, only with the new boyfriend or girlfriend. Or you move and change jobs and yet there you are - still unhappy.

So if the internal is what truly creates the external, why doesn’t it work to simply wish for change to happen? When you pine for the future, you miss the moment. When you wish for a “should be,” you miss the chance to create a “what is.” This moment is unique and the only time it will ever exist is right now. By wishing this moment was different, then you miss the opportunity to love and accept your life as it is. You also set into motion the vibration or quality of existence that will be in your next few moments and what manifests in the future. The only way to truly shift what is about to appear in your life is to embody that which you wish for and claim it as yours already, thereby creating the sensation you are this right now.

To do this, you must first set your intent. What emotional quality do you want to embody in your life? What does your heart desire? Now envision what it would feel like to already be or have this. Make it as real as possible for yourself. Remember a time in the past when you truly felt your desire. Imagine having it in the near future. The key is to create the feeling now. If doubts arise, be willing to look deeper at the stories, beliefs, and agreements in your mind. While the universe is ready to deliver whatever you command, no matter how large or small, you must play an active part and believe that you deserve it so strongly that it feels as if you already are or have it. When you make this shift from doubting to believing, that of way life appears in your external reality. By focusing on the way you are feeling in your internal reality, a whole new universe opens within and therefore can manifest in your outer world. From this place, you can create the love and happiness you desire – starting in this moment, right now.

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