How can you personally change for a better World?

Changing the World starts with yourself. Being nice and kind to yourself during difficulties is important, as you don't get down. And do forgive yourself also if something goes wrong. Mistakes can be made and you just need to learn from it. But being nice and kind helps people around you as well, as it might actually be that little thing someone else simply needs. Being there for others and giving a helping hand, can make such a difference. What kind of influence do you personally have on this World, and how can companies help in this?

The influence that you have

What you do has influence on your direct surrounding. Friends, family and people at work directly feel what you think or do. But also others who you encounter during a day time, are influenced. You might not know it, but simply by ignoring a homeless person on the street, can make them feel unappreciated or worse. Not showing interest, not being bothered with others feelings and only showing interest in yourself, can make others feel bad. Even if you do show interest it still depends on what you say or do, what kind of impact you will have on someone else. Everyone is carrying some baggage of which you don't have any knowledge. So one might feel bad already (but isn't showing it), but your actions or words can work like a sword and cut their motivation. It shows that you can make or break someone else's day. You can not change the World by yourself, but you can change the World of one person by being nice. That is the power that you carry with you everyday! And thus you can use that power in a positive way, everyday as well.

Influence of forgiving or sparing

In this world it is important to forgive, but forgive wisely and sparsely. It releases your tension with others. Forgiving is something you do for others but also for yourself. But in order to forgive, there for sure must be a reason to forgive them. Many people don't tell you what they did to you, and thus the reason to forgive is unclear. Giving forgiveness is something like a free get out of jail card, with you saying you don't have to suffer or feel guilty. But there lies a big problem in that. Many of those who ask for forgiveness, do they really feel sorry for what they did? In many cases they still come to you with half-truths, and hidden agenda's. So what can you do? You don't want to add suffering to this world, but giving them a clean sheet altogether isn't what you want to do also. In these cases, and these might me the majority of cases, you can spare them. By sparing them, they do not have to suffer, but you do not take away their guilt as well. So you actually give them time to think about what they did, you give them time to reflect on their accountability. And that is all you can do, as in general they do not like to tell what they did, so you spare them. This method gives you grace, as you save them from hurt, but gives them time to think.  

Something must have happened in the past - or your past life - resulting the problems that you have now. So you need to do something about that. If you do good and bad in your life to others, then it will come back in your life or your next life. But occasionally forgiving, sparing them or saying sorry to someone can actually resolve this kind of karma issue, and thus it won't come back in your life. Also you can forgive at distance, without seeing them. Use your full intent by a method of praying telling you forgive them, spare them or say sorry for what they did or visa versa. It releases the tension at distance, and mostly health-problems will reduce in time. Next to this you can get rid of karma by learning from your mistakes, and being the best person you can be. So think good, talk good and do good are the basics here. But this also comes with a warning. What if you forgive people for something that they haven't done. Then there might be the possibility of them using this free-card to do the things to you at which you have forgiven them in advance. This is like a backward karma creation, and must be avoided at all cost. So be careful as well when you forgive, and thus spare instead! 

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Being nice and kind

Just a smile, a friendly face, a nice remark or giving a little something to a stranger, can have great impact. There seems to be lack of this a lot these days. People are influenced in a negative way by things happening in the World and one actually feels it in ones wallet. During difficult and hard times, the group of people having problems gradually is growing. This situation seems to be hard to handle for the many, as we try to survive ourselves. But even then you should try to make the best of it, and the best way to do it is by being nice and kind. Others have many problems to overcome and your help might be that little push they need to keep going. Make a change by helping others, be nice and kind or give a helping hand.

What can companies do to change?

Many companies hire people at low wages, but rake in big profits. And the question here is how much profit is enough for these companies, whilst their staff hardly can come around. This seems to be a very serious situation, as the workers don't seem to be paid fairly for their hard work. Without the workers, that company wouldn't make any profit and thus it is logical to reward them for it. For me it is hard to understand that hard-working people are punished for hard work whilst their managers and directors swim in money. And in many cases the owner of these companies are proud of it as well. This example actually shows one of the seven Deadly sins, namely Pride. There are two types of pride. One is the good one, one has worked hard and shares the profits with the helpers and has pride of their accomplishments. The other one is the bad one. One is proud of the company but doesn't share their wealth with those who actually have earned it. Such companies you can find everywhere and are examples of how it shouldn't be done. But companies can change their attitude for the better. By rewarding the workers fairly, by stimulating families, by giving others opportunities and for instance provide food and shelter for those in need. The rich don't have to become more rich while others don't know how to make it to their next paycheck. Equality can start at any company for sure. In this I would like you to remember, that if other companies don't do it, doesn't mean that your company shouldn't. You as a company should recognize the importance of your staff and their surrounding, by helping wherever you can.

Basic income for a better World

It is very important to create equality for everyone everywhere on Earth. This means the same means, same opportunities, same help and so on. A widely discussed method is basic income. With this everyone gets money from the state enough to have a roof over their heads and food in their stomach. It results in a enormous boost of equality and solves many problems instantly (such as homelessness, health problems, partly crime) and stimulates opportunities for everyone. Such a system should be used to solve basic problems in our society and can be provided for those who need it urgently. This can be implemented now to help the poor and roofless person immediately. I am not suggesting that basic income should be implemented now for everyone, but I am suggesting to use basic income now for those in need and with this I do believe that the profits for society as a whole are more then the cost of basic income itself. Use basic income to solve urgent problems in this World now, so that we can start to Change collectively!

Humans want to reach for the stars, why do we need change?

Humans are fascinated by the stars and how our planet revolves around the Sun and how our solar system interacts with the galaxy. Especially the idea that there might be alien life outside our planet, seems to be fascinating for many. It is the origin of many Hollywood movies, but sadly with the depiction of hostile aliens. We gaze up to the stars expecting to find amazing things on exoplanets and other being or entities. We cannot start to imagine what is up there and thus we want to find out. So if we start to explore the stars and exoplanets, then can we expect aliens out there and are they friendly?

Are there aliens?

In our galaxy alone, there are billions of stars with every star potentially having planets. For the sake of argument if every star has an average of 4 planets around them, then what is the change of having life. Say on 0.01% has life, then there would be 4*1,000,000,000*0.01% = 400,000 planets with life. And if only 0.1% of those planets with life have intelligent life, then there still would be 400,000*0.1% = 400 planets per 1 billion planets with intelligent life. This means there is a good chance that there are planets with sentient beings who eventually in there evolution have been looking up to the stars and think what is up there? And as they might have evolved thousands or millions of years before us, then there obvious will be aliens with more advanced technologies who already have reached for the stars. In this perspective Earthlings have just put the first step on the galactic evolutionary ladder. And with their advanced technologies they most likely can scan the universe for abnormalities indicating life. This means that they already have detected our presence within the galaxy.

They know what we think

Intelligent aliens for sure would use reasoning and logic in any form for making up their minds. We humans in almost all cases use emotions to make up our minds, but many decisions made with emotions such as love or fear are wrong decisions. And so logic dictates that aliens would have evolved out of emotional decision making into logical decision making. And it is with this logical thinking that they will judge other species such as Earthlings. The most basic method for aliens to see if other species are benign or hostile is by looking at how they treat their own species. Benign species treat each-other with dignity, equality and peace, but hostile species can use mass destruction weaponry on their own. If we want to reach for the stars and encounter them, then they simply scan our leaky brain and know how we treat our own kind. So aliens would know instantly that we are benign or hostile. They know what we think, just by listening to our thoughts.

Aliens are friendly

In their evolution, aliens would also have gazed up the sky with awe to know what is up there. But just like us, they would have had the fear as well to encounter species with hostile intent. And they actually might have encountered bad species as well and decided not to have anything to do with hostile species like that again. And thus they would search for alien life, in stealth. If they would find benign species, they would make first contact so that they can join them. But if they would encounter hostile species, they wouldn't make contact at all. So this means that there is a growing group of friendly aliens out there, and a small separated group of bad aliens. And as the good group works together then they have all the advantages. This means that the chance is very high that if we encounter aliens, then it would be with friendly intent.

Are we friendly?

How we act on Earth defines if we are considered benign or hostile. Many people believe in love and peace, and that would be the message that we should spread. But there are also people who only seek power and prospect for themselves, which in many cases results in war. And this is the signal that we send out to them. We are fighting each-other all the time and potentially can use nuclear weaponry. This situation as an act, can only be interpreted as hostile. And as we treat our own species like this, then aliens can only expect that we will treat them the same way.

We need to change on Earth already

As aliens will know, then there is no need for us to reach for the stars now. You only see the news about what happens on this Earth and how people treat each-other to understand that we need to change and must change now. If we want to meet aliens, then we need to make a very positive first impression. And that impression for sure would be a very bad one at this moment. The World has many crises with potentially nuclear war at our horizon. That must be prevented at all cost, as such an act will set us back into the stone age for sure. But if we stand up together and make a voice for Change then that could have an impact. And we need to change now, as - looking at the World events - time has run out!

How can we make a good first impression?

Institutions like NASA, UN as an example should stand up for equality and the same chances for everyone, and a World without poverty, homelessness, hunger. If these organizations only want to seek power, without changing the World as well for the better, then we still would make a very poor impression. It is amazing that we can land space aircraft's on the Moon, Mars or Venus, but we cannot help our own people from starvation and disrespect. So if we really want to make a good impression, then we need to change, and we need to change now. These and other organizations should work together in improving life on Earth for everybody first. And if in many decades we have our Earth in order, then we can reach for the stars making first contact with aliens.