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How to Create Change in the World
How do we create change on the planet? Yoga wisdom tells us that people need to start at the most basic level. To create change, begin with a person. What is a lot more basic when compared to a single individual? The stuff we all have been manufactured from: atoms and subatomic particles. "You're what you eat" because the saying goes. But what about our mind? Is the mind also manufactured from atoms? Not exactly...

Physically, we may contain atoms, but mentally we are crafted from stories. Thus, to generate change, we need to change the stories our minds are made of.

What's an atom, by the way? An atom may be the most basic unit of every living and non-living thing. But isn't that yet another story? ...Everything is really a story.

When you were born, your parents told you the story that they were told by their parents, who, in turn, were told by their own parents. This re-telling has been going on because the very beginning of humankind. Yet, who was the original storyteller?

Our teachers, parents, friends, and peers donate to that on-going story. They provide us only the description of the world they know - their perception of the planet. It may not be the way the world is really. We ourselves donate to the story of the world every moment of our existence by thinking and believing in what we have been told.

The stories we tell ourselves form our social and cultural values. Which means that our stories, tales, fables, anecdotes, parables, proverbs, and colloquial expressions will be the backbone, the building blocks, of our society as a whole, and our modern culture on the planet Earth.

For the last few thousand years, the stories that have dominated our consciousness, generally in most modern cultures, are the stories of mankind's rule on the natural world, of the sense of separateness from nature and from one another, and of our self-gratifying pre-occupation with our ego-mind.

Regardless of how simple and seemingly insignificant, our stories will be the real cause of several global social and cultural problems such as war and violence; concern with the natural world and separation from nature; pollution, environmental destruction, and the increased loss of wildlife habitats; over-consumption and materialism.

Imagine if the majority of our stories were teaching us some virtuous value, or encouraging us toward a confident action.

"Kill two birds with one stone" would be "Feed two birds with one seed."
"It is a dog-eat-dog world" would be "It's a happy-dog-splashing-in-the-pool world."
"Take up to you can, before another person will" would become "Take only the thing you need, leave the others for others".

If our description of the world as we know it was always predicated on universal love, compassion, and interconnectedness, what would the planet be like?

Nonetheless, get more info is the way it really is for a reason. We've all done our part in creating it. What counts now will be the stories we tell. If you want to continue seeing abundance on this beautiful planet, some of our stories have to change.

Although it would take the time and effort, we can focus on making this process a journey filled up with fun, exploration, learning, and love. We need to become more alert to the prevailing stories and re-tell them in a far more positive light. We have to learn from the older cultures that have survived modernization and from their stories, along with from countless teachers and seekers who've taken this path of wisdom in the past. We must remember to witness life and nature, and spot the innumerable lessons all around us. We should listen closely to your own hearts as they are, too, our teachers and tell their own unique story.

It is, actually, very real and possible to generate change on the planet that is full of love and happiness. It may be our next evolutionary step, to transform to a more spiritual approach to life, with stories as the vehicle.

Let's begin today. Create change within you. What positive story did you hear today?

Surya Kolpakov, LMT, is a Certified Yoga Therapist. He teaches yoga and meditation around Boston area, loves to share his insights and tell stories about the yoga lifestyle, and perform traditional Thai massage. To find out more on the yoga lifestyle, visit Surya's website at
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