The Dalai Lama suggests that achieving a social revolution begins with transforming our own minds. This is a topic of how to create a better world is close to my heart.

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You may not be focused on sparking a social revolution right now, but perhaps you’d welcome a personal revolution—one that shifts you away from reactive, nagging behavior and overwhelm, and toward a state of clarity, peace and calm. Because let's face it, even with the best intentions and promises to ourselves that we will never again act or say things out of anger, frustration or hurt, before we know it, we have done it again.

Lately I have been contemplating the way we create stories in our mind about ourselves, about others and about the world around us; and how we have a tendency to hold on to those stories because on some level, they make us feel safe and in control.

However, the stories we tell ourselves over and over again can also hold us prisoner as they can limit our experience of life and influence how we relate to the world around us.