Our human life experience is composed of moments we experience that encompass a spectrum of emotions, as well as opportunities to learn and grow. As energetic beings having a human experience in physical form, we operate, function, and respond from our level of awareness and consciousness.
Everyone experiences life in different ways, is immersed—and sometimes enmeshed—in their own reality, and has their own perception, level of awareness, and way of receiving information.
With that understanding, we are afforded the opportunity to consciously create the life we desire based on our energetic emission and what we choose to focus on, as well as our intent for the manifestation.
When we shift our perception, we can change our life, including those experiences from the past, the ones we are presently experiencing, and those that have yet to happen.
This transformation involves altering our mindset and attitude, as well as being mindful of our thoughts, words, and actions. The thoughts we think and the words we speak are an integral part of the life we experience.
Conscious means being aware, awake, and tuned in to ourselves and our surroundings. A ripple effect is defined as the continuing results of an action. Therefore, creating a conscious ripple entails being cognizant of our energy and more purposeful with the ripple we are creating.
The first step to creating a conscious ripple is to become aware of our own energetic emission, which includes our emotions, self-talk, and the other extraneous thoughts running through our mind.
Does your energy feel focused and grounded or scattered and imbalanced? Loving and grateful or fearful and worried? Light and bright or dense and heavy? Please know that one is not better or worse than another. Identifying how we feel in the moment helps us acknowledge the energies that surround us and how those energies feel.
As powerful creators, we have the ability to transmute energy based on our viewpoint and how we choose to respond. Shifting energy is truly a matter of changing how we perceive a situation, experience, person, place, or thing. Practicing compassion, empathy, and understanding will shift energy as well.
Since we are all drops in the proverbial ocean of Oneness, everything we think, say, and do is creating a ripple. What does it mean to create a conscious ripple? This means being aware of your energetic emission. You choose to generate more positive energy and have a positive attitude knowing that your positive actions will inspire others as well.
To provide a visualization for this action, I invite you to take a moment and imagine that you are throwing a rock into water. I’m sure you have done this at one time in your life and perhaps many times.
Once the rock hits the water and begins to sink, you can visually see the ripple that it created in the water. The smaller the rock, the smaller the ripple. Understandably, the bigger the rock, the bigger the ripple. Regardless, a ripple is created.
Here are some ways you can create an intentional positive ripple:
- Allow others to have their own beliefs and make their own choices
- Feel empowered to be who you are
- Practice the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- See experiences from more than one perspective
- Acknowledge the blessings within the challenges
- Smile more
- Greet people when you cross paths with them
- Offer kind words and compliments to others
- Hold the door for someone
- Invite someone to go ahead of you at the checkout line
- Practice kindness with words, gestures and acts—think intentional (not random) acts of kindness
- Help those in need—friends, family, coworkers, and people you don’t know
- Be kind to animals and all living things
- Thank people for their presence and the services they provide
- Donate your time, money, or items you no longer use to a charitable cause
- Recycle, pick up trash, and take care of our planet
- Bless a friend, family member, or coworker with a small gift for no particular reason
- Write a letter or verbally express to someone the impact they have had in your life
- Express love and appreciation to others
- Let someone know that you are thinking of them
There are many more ways we can each be a positive ripple by staying in the heart-space and letting our love flow. Each one of us is planting powerful seeds of intention with loving thoughtfulness, knowing these seeds will grow and bloom.
Expressing love and sharing kindness takes such a small effort, yet has an enormous effect. This ripple of love and compassion will surpass anything we can imagine when we simply allow the love to flow. Our conscious and even unconscious actions—things we do knowingly and unknowingly—are helping shift others with the ripple effect. What ripple are you creating?
