The Ripple Effect and Your Center of Influence

You are a center of influence. Every thought, emotion, word, and behavior that you offer has a ripple effect. The effect is reflected back to you in your life experience. The ripple effect impacts the lives of others.

As humans we forget or don't know that we have such influence. We are, instead, a center of attention. Our focus is on what others or what the world is doing to us, or on what they should be doing for us. In this state of consciousness we become victims of our lives, and victims of our relationships.

As a center of attention we worry, get angry, and resist the people and events of our lives. As we focus on blaming life, at pushing it away, we experience pain and struggle. Our efforts, as a center of attention, become counter productive. We can move beyond this way of being by acknowledging that life is experienced from the inside out.

Your world emanates from your consciousness. Your world and your life aren't events happening to you. They are events that you evoke via your consciousness. If you don't like what you have, stop blaming people, or events, or God. Reverse your perspective. Instead of looking at life as affecting you, look at how you are affecting life. What are your thoughts, your beliefs, your attitudes, your emotions toward others, and toward life? How are those attitudes reflected back to you.

It is never about the events in your life. It is never about the people around you. The person who seemingly irritates you is your projection. It's all in your mind. Life in the physical sense is a manifestation of your mental state. Life is not happening to you. It is happening through you. Look at any situation or relationship that seems bothersome and stop seeing it as being done to you. Stop trying to analyze the other person. Instead, look at what you are giving to the situation.

If you are upset with someone, what are you giving to them? What are your assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward that person? Whatever they are, the other person is experiencing what you are giving. Your opinion of someone becomes your vision for them. You then seek to make manifest your vision by way of your words, tone, body language , and behaviors. In other words, if you think someone is incompetent, you will probably treat them like an incompetent.

If you see yourself as sick, poor, or lonely, that becomes your vision for yourself. The Universe then returns to you physical circumstances that match your beliefs. Turn it around. Life is not offering you sickness, poverty, or loneliness . Life offers you opportunity. What are you offering to life? What is the ripple effect of your thoughts and emotions?

Catch yourself being the center of attention and reverse the flow of thought. Purify your thoughts by turning over your fears and miscreations to Spirit. Ask Spirit within to take charge. Go within and clarify your desires for life and then let go. In the classic book, The Planetary Commission, John Randolph Price wrote: "Claim your good. Imagine your good. Speak the word for your good. Then care not if your good ever comes to pass. Caring in this sense is another word for worry, concern, and it diverts your power. Choose what you want in life and see it as an actuality. Call it forth--then let go! Don't be concerned about the outcome. Take no thought! Turn it over to a Higher Power, and get out of the way."

Let things take their natural course. Adjust and align your thinking with Spirit. Simply ask: How would my Spirit/Higher Self see this situation? Move forward trusting the process. Let life unfold. When artists, musicians, and writers create, they envision a work. Next they begin their labor. In most cases they take no thought. That is, they don’t force anything. They begin work and the work unfolds of itself.

Let your life unfold. State your intentions, take action, and let the process unfold. Whatever you want, you don’t make it happen. You allow it to happen. You are a center of influence, and the influence of your thought ripples outward into your world evoking a like response from the Universe. Whatever you would create, is already created in your mind. Give thanks for it. Bless it. The work of creation is already done. Let go and allow it.

Move into this day as a center of influence. Allow the love, the wisdom , and the power of spirit to create through you. See people and situations as perfect. Know that each time you let go and let God, that your decision has a ripple effect on the world that you see.