Its all how you look at it

The world around us is always a reflection of our expectations and perceptions. If we expect and perceive it to be kind, loving, abundant and beautiful, it will be. If we expect and perceive it to be cruel, limiting, unyielding and unloving, it can just as easily be that, too.

Awareness - Consciousness - is being tuned in to what the present moment is, Our perceptions are the way we define the present moment and are dependent upon past and future.

When we perceive, we become aware of and develop a personal understanding of whatever presents itself to us, based upon the messages we receive from a combination of past and future experiences, our five physical senses and our sense of inner awareness. The perception we have of any thing, person or event serves to keep us grounded in a physical reality. Our ability to form a perception, however, also gives us a divine role to play in the workings of the universe; for as perceivers we are also creators.

Unfortunately, along the way, we often mistake our perceptions of the world around us for undeniable Truth. And the more based those perceptions happen to be on our sense of separation from the world around us, the more apt we are to create a fearful world. When what we perceive is based on our sense of connectedness with All That Is, however; the more in sync we immediately feel to everyone and everything around us, and the more apt we are to create a beneficial and loving world. Because our sense of connection arises from inner awareness, this is a primary reason that sages since the beginning of time have advised us that the way to true happiness is to go within.

Any external problem we perceive in our own lives or in the lives of others is really nothing more than a signal that we have neglected to take this inward journey. The problem, whatever it may be, is simply letting us know we have lost touch with our Inner Being.

The problems in our lives are really nothing more than messages for us to "call home." They are loving reminders that we need to reconnect with Self. Such situations are a blessing, a beneficial act of love offering us a chance to confront our fears and return to our sense of inner connectedness. As we overcome the fear, we resolve it.

The wrongs we perceive in the world are not presented to us in order for us to heal them. They come into our lives so that we can heal ourselves. They invite us to go within to reconnect with and love the creative being we have always been.

And when we love ourselves completely, our entire world changes to reflect that love.

There is only you. The problems and difficulties you see are your perception and nothing more.

Appreciate them.

Bless them.

Love them.

Give thanks for them.

And love and appreciate yourself for being the powerful and intelligent creator of your world that you are. Feel yourself reconnecting with the source of your power, and as you do, the inner healing necessary to a changed world will take place. As it does, the world you see before you will become a world of harmony and peace.

And it all begins by honoring yourself enough to recognize that you create your world by your perceptions, and then loving yourself enough to be willing change the perception.