Blessed present to all the members of this Weekend Community! This week the topics for reflection are very interesting and I have chosen the following to develop:
What does this quote mean to you and how does it apply to your life? “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality - Plutarch”
This quote from Plutarch is very deep and gives much truth, because different currents and disciplines of thought, as well as spiritual and evolutionary approach this premise of “as within is without” and the theory of projection.
Each experience, each relationship, is the mirror that reflects a mental pattern that we harbor inside, then when we understand this, we can find the solution that Plutarch gives us “achieve internal changes to modify your external reality”.
What is this all about then?
We are the center of everything that happens in our life, we have a particular way of thinking, feeling and acting that distinguishes us as a unique being; and the conjugation of all this makes us relate to the world according to it, added to the paradigms and beliefs we have about life.
Recently I was in therapy with a person who has very little faith in humanity, and feels very overwhelmed because she feels that everyone who approaches her will deceive her or harm her in some way because of some bad experience she had in the past; this has caused her to isolate herself and harbor a lot of fear, and she came to my office because she did not want to feel that way.
We were evaluating her belief system and thoughts on the matter and I took her to the point of realizing that if she does not change her way of thinking about other people, neither will her way of relating and she will continue to have the same result. -What is outside of us we cannot change.
And this is a little difficult for us to understand sometimes, because it would be very easy for others to do the work for us, but that is not how things work. We must work on these internal changes in order to be able to modify what is happening outside. So, in the case of this patient, if she continues to maintain the belief that those who approach her will deceive her, she will continue to act in the same distrustful, insecure and even abusive way with other people because she remains permanently in a state of defense, in a constant alert because she is convinced that the other person is going to harm her.
So this powerful statement by Plutarch encapsulates the essence of personal transformation, a call to look within and take charge of what is ours and whether we have the power to change.
According to the aforementioned Law of Attraction and metaphysics, if we cultivate positive thoughts, a mindset of abundance, gratitude and resilience, that is what we will project outward and consequently what we will attract from the world. On the contrary, if we allow ourselves to be carried away by fear, doubt, scarcity or negativity, those will be the lenses through which we will perceive and build our environment.
Hence the phrase that we are “co-creators of our reality”, where the starting point for this creation is always our internal universe: our beliefs, our emotions, our mental habits.
According to the philosophy of A Course in Miracles, we must work on our mind (thoughts and beliefs) to change the perception we have of the world and our way of interacting with it, for this, one of the tools used is the “projection” that I mentioned before, invites you to go inside and ask yourself things like:
What message or symbol does this situation or person bring me?
What do I need to change inside me to reflect something different outside?
And from that awareness that the power lies within us, we must take action and make the choice to do something different to get other results. In the case of my consultant, until she identifies that every reaction she has towards others is a reflection of something unhealed and works on it to achieve her inner peace, she will continue to see everything through the lens of mistrust.
Do you see it?
If you don't like what you are receiving, observe what you are emitting; it is another way of expressing that gift of wisdom that Plutarch left us with that phrase.
See you next weekend! Thanks for being and good vibes to you!
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