What is Conscious Change?
Think about something important to you: Finding new work or customers. Improving relationships. Putting forth your ideas. Improving someone's health, the environment or influencing people around you...
When we want to create positive change, we usually focus on getting other people to like us, buy from us, agree with, date or hire us. The focus is on changing their behaviour. And if they don't, what do we do? Try harder, of course -- to attract, sell, convince or "get them" to act. We may even use fear, force or guilt as motivation. But how well does it work, and how long does it last?
Now think of it this way: What if someone wanted you to do something? Who would you trust more: the person who tries to get you to do what they want, or who truly puts you first? Someone who asks, and listens, is real and honest; cares deeply about what is right for you, and helps you to get it. Who would you rather buy from, work for, or be with?
The second approach doesn't start with getting. It's about giving something first. And that begins with a shift in our own thinking, which then changes how we relate to others.
At its core, conscious change is about finding new ways of improving life, by changing our own thinking first. Rather than trying to change other people, it's listening to their deeper thoughts and feelings, and what they really want. Respecting and expressing our own. Treating others (and ourselves) the way they (and we) most want to be treated. Accessing the deepest wisdom within us. Doing what is in our highest or best interests. And helping one another find what's right for each us.
It may sound idealistic. But after decades of application, I've found that it works. When we shift the thinking behind our own actions, we can create change more effectively.
Change from the inside out
How do we use it?
Who's writing this?
The power of our consciousness
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When we want to create positive change, we usually focus on getting other people to like us, buy from us, agree with, date or hire us. The focus is on changing their behaviour. And if they don't, what do we do? Try harder, of course -- to attract, sell, convince or "get them" to act. We may even use fear, force or guilt as motivation. But how well does it work, and how long does it last?
Now think of it this way: What if someone wanted you to do something? Who would you trust more: the person who tries to get you to do what they want, or who truly puts you first? Someone who asks, and listens, is real and honest; cares deeply about what is right for you, and helps you to get it. Who would you rather buy from, work for, or be with?
The second approach doesn't start with getting. It's about giving something first. And that begins with a shift in our own thinking, which then changes how we relate to others.
At its core, conscious change is about finding new ways of improving life, by changing our own thinking first. Rather than trying to change other people, it's listening to their deeper thoughts and feelings, and what they really want. Respecting and expressing our own. Treating others (and ourselves) the way they (and we) most want to be treated. Accessing the deepest wisdom within us. Doing what is in our highest or best interests. And helping one another find what's right for each us.
It may sound idealistic. But after decades of application, I've found that it works. When we shift the thinking behind our own actions, we can create change more effectively.
Change from the inside out
How do we use it?
Who's writing this?
The power of our consciousness
Site directory: Click on three white bars at top of page