Strategy 1:Change Our Map of Internal Reality

This strategy requires daily work, and maybe twice a day depending on your commitment to it.  This will not only change our external world ultimately, but will change our personal lives as well.   When you enter into any venture with your whole being, then it becomes critical that "wholeness" is grounded in the right energy. 

This piece of strategy and tactics was given to us anonymously and thus I am passing it on to you in the same way.   Please read and implement as a beginning and continue daily while we work on the other strategies and tactics that will be coming down the line.   There is a part II to our internal work which will follow this first part.   I deeply believe, when I read this,  that this is and was the foundation for what lies ahead, it can only happen this way as a beginning "BY FOCUSING AND BECOMING THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE". .

Tactic and Practice:  

A peaceful tactic to begin manifesting a new world is to visualize the world we would like to live in....doing this every day for five to fifteen minutes. As many of you are aware, this is a powerful "action" to take "together". Some suggestions to visualize are:

(Please post your additional suggestions so they may be shared with all who are willing to participate in this "action".).....

a.  Peace. Love, Harmony, Joy, Goodwill, Prosperity and Abundance for ourselves, our families, our neighbors and finally,  for all.  Image that this has occurred already and meditate on how that would feel and enjoy the process of feeling that change already in place.   Begin within you,  then like a blanket bring in others in your family to the comfort, peace, love, and abundance that you have fully visualized for yourself.  Once that is completed and you have it firmly visualized as a reality, then begin to "NOTICE" that others around you and their families also have this wonderment within their lives.  

b.  Visualize that everyone you meet, and everyone on the planet has found the energy of love, light, and caring and also that everyone has "truth" in their hearts. Then notice your governments, business, banking, etc, also have adopted this wonderful condition within their businesses, politics, etc.  Visualize law enforcement helping your children when they fall down,  or getting a cat out of the tree, and acting like the protectorates they are meant to be.  

Carry that forward into the military and other institutions.   If at first you find it difficult, go back to the place where you last felt that comfort and believed it to be so.   Stay with it and go on again and do the next grouping further out from you and practice, visualize and meditate until you truly feel it.  We are changing our belief systems when we do this into what we WANT THE WORLD TO BE. If you are religious, fine, you can incorporate that into your religious practices.  

Remember, it takes time and this won't happen overnight, but if we practice each and every day, this will get easier and we can progress a lot further over time.   I swear to you this works,  it has for me and miracles have happened and we altogether doing this can change the world into the place we want it to be.   Trust me on this.  

c.  Now you have come this far,  its time to move out further and visualize the empowerment of and finances made available to all those who have the knowledge to start businesses, implement research for better fuel products, higher efficient transportation, more life enhancing and holistic healing products and methods, more economical housing, and alternative banking, and the movement of corporations into great corporate citizenship within their communities.   Visualize they have become the paragons of corporate responsibility in their workers, their customers, and their communities.

d.  Now visualize Leaders in all areas of society have a empathetic heart, are caring and compassionate, are spiritually aware, are visionaries, yet, grounded, full of wisdom and deep abiding principles and who make decisions for the good of all the people.  Visualize citizen politicians who genuinely represent their neighbors and families in the governmental process. 

Visualize continually, the world you want to see.   It only takes 8,000 of us to change the world using this process.  Do it while driving,  in the shower, during break at work, do it whenever there is a moment to contemplate in your daily life schedule.   Remember the adage, "MIND OVER MATTER" and its true.

Behavior changes that accompany the above tactic

Visualizing can be accompanied by adopting behaviors that will reflect what we visualize we want.  Here is a list below on some things we can start to manifest while we are doing our internal work.  Its from this combination that we will spread, and behaviors will change, and new paradigms will be given birth which will create new life in our otherwise deteriorating conditions on this planet.   Here are suggestions made by another "People-to-People" member from Taiwan, who has been with us from the beginning and these are great for practicing  these new paradigms within our own lives, & will eventually result, along with the visualization into a new world with all that we want for ourselves and others.   REMEMBER, CHANGE OCCURS WHEN WE LIVE WHAT WE VISUALIZE and become the example of change we want to see.....

This is from Jerry Mills, Taiwan  "Manifesting" Change.
http://americanactionreport.blogspot.com/2010/04/fourteen-counsels-of-excellence.html

Lao Tze spent his entire life searching for something he called the Way. Toward the end of his life, he admitted that he hadn’t found it but said that our lives would be better if we searched for it ourselves.

Buddha spent his entire life searching for the Truth. Toward the end of his life, he admitted that he had learned many truths but had never really found the Truth.

The legendary Eight Immortals typify man’s search for Life. Yet even the Eight Immortals of legend must die.

I may tell you that I’ve found the Way, the Truth, and the Life; but it means nothing to you unless you find it for yourself. Those of us who desire peace among ourselves and with all nations are on an uncertain journey. But Journeys begin with the first step.   Its bigger than just ourselves and thus deeper than any journey we have been asked to take in the past.   Enjoy the trip of a life time.  We must integrate these into our lives and visualizations and teach them to our children while we teach them to visualize what they want in this world.

Fourteen Counsels of Excellence

1. Chivalry: a code of conduct and way of life that seeks to embody all other virtues. In times past, it supported the aristocratic regime. In today’s egalitarian climate, it places more responsibility more broadly upon its adherents.

2. Integrity: Being true to one’s values regardless of unpopularity or other difficulties. Depending on what those values are, it may be positive or negative.

3. Simplicity: Desiring what we need for ourselves and others and accepting only the embellishments that actually improve the quality of life.

4. Patience: Patience with ourselves and with others.

5. Temperance: Balance in all things. Desiring the right amount and to the right degree.

6. Humility: The recognition of our true value and the True Source of our value. It’s neither putting ourselves down, which would be an affront to our Creator and the natural order of things, nor vaunting ourselves to a supposed higher place in the order of things.

7. Fortitude: Courage and industry. Doing the best we can and leaving the outcome to heaven. Knowing that everyone dies of something eventually, it means not fearing death. It has been determined the number of our days and the hour of our deaths. Recognizing that, until that time, we’re as safe in battle as we are in bed.

8. Prudence: Thinking things through to determine outcomes before we act.

9. Reverence: Recognizing that all things work together for good, but we may experience that goodness only by seeking it and recognizing it. Unhappiness is always caused by not getting the results we desire, sometimes through unreasonable expectations ; sometimes our desires, while good in themselves, may be inordinate. In the end, we know what is good in our lives, how much we should receive, and under what circumstances we should receive good things.  Its going beyond what we know to be right, that brings unhappiness.

10. Justice: Finding and maintaining balance. Sometimes justice requires mercy; sometimes punishment, sometimes something else. Injustice is a condition of disharmony in the natural order of things. Establishing justice is re-establishing equilibrium.

11. Gratitude: Being thankful for whatever heaven sends our way, recognizing that it’s all for good. Wisdom never came from convenience, and creativity never came from an abundance of things to do.

12. Faith: Faith isn’t the belief that you’ll receive the things “hoped for;” it’s the “substance of things hoped for.” We may not receive the commodity we wish to receive, but (VN: Faith leads to belief and belief leads to "knowing". Its by our experiences that we come to know that our belief and faith is well founded. I personally have had miracles that have changed my faith, into knowing through belief.

13. Hope: Not knowing the future but knowing Who holds the future and who can create the future as we are doing through this process. Each faith and religion has that within it if we search it out.

14. Love: Desiring the best for others and for ourselves. Love is not just an action verb; it’s a transitive verb. It requires an object. Since love is a commitment and not a feeling, it requires a commitment to that object even when the feeling is absent.

Three Responsibilities

1. Obligation: The responsibilities we take upon ourselves by our words or actions. We have, for example, obligations to our spouses and children.

2. Duty: Responsibilities we never chose, but which we have nonetheless. We never chose our parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, or our country. For that matter, we never chose to be created. We do, however, have responsibilities in those areas and more.

3. Integrity: This has been called the responsibility we owe ourselves. Since all responsibilities are ultimately to our Creator, integrity is the responsibility we owe directly to the Ultimate. For example, we don’t owe good manners to any other person, but good manners help us to become better people.

Three Forms of Goodness

1. Morality: Right behavior in our treatment of people including ourselves, animals, and other living things. It involves doing no harm, but it also involves actively doing good.

2. Ethics: Honesty and reliability in our behavior toward other people.

3. Virtue: Forms of behavior that strengthen an individual, a family, a community, a state, a nation, or the world. Examples are filial piety, community spirit, patriotism, and reverence.

http://americanactionreport.blogspot.com/2010/04/fourteen-counsels-of-excellence.html

There is more, but this is plenty, some of us will find this easy and some will have to rethink and change much of what we were taught in our schools that no longer serves us if we are to change our world. Please seriously consider all this because this is the FOUNDATION FOR THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE IN OUR WORLD, Please join in and help create this new reality for yourselves, family and the world.

New strategies and tactics are coming soon to do with specific actions we can take in our movement toward non cooperation and self empowerment and world expansion. These had to be done one at a time as I am sure you can imagine the work involved in putting all of this together.  Thanks for all who have contributed and continue to follow us on this journey.  Jump in anytime with suggestions either through the email on the site or through the comments section of any of the blogs.