The illusion of separation runs deep in our culture.

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Most of us are so disconnected to the world around us.

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It an be easy to feel that what happens in another country does not affect us.

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Or that how the rain falls in Nairobi makes no difference to our life.

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Yet nothing can be further from the truth.

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For the universe is so deeply connected that even the smallest particle in the farthest reaches of space, can effect our existence on this planet.

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It can easy to dismiss this idea as pure fantasy.

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Indeed, many people do.

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Yet science continues to bear out that this sense of separation is indeed an illusion.

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Even the recent events on out planet have shown us that one person's health can affect the health of the entire population.

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Indeed, even the environmental challenges we face show us that what we do in place affects the whole world.

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The recent discoveries of minute amounts of plastic in all of our food tells a similar story.

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We cannot escape the fact that how we treat this world affects everyone who lives in it.

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And as we treat ourselves with either respect or disrespect, so too do we treat others the same.

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We are connected not only in a very real physical sense, but in an energetic or spiritual one as well.

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When our energy is low or we feel down, we affect the people around us as well.

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If we are inspired and motivated and we show up with a ton of life force to contribute to the world, our families and colleagues feel that as well.

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The ripple we are in the pond of the universe surely spreads out to touch everyone and everything.

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What we really need to consider, once we admit this to ourselves, is what kind of world do we want to live in?

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For when we put more love, more compassion, more forgiveness and more kindness out into the world, it reverberates for centuries.

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When we show others harshness, cruelty, judgment, and betrayal, it does the same.

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If we want to create a better world for ourselves and those we care about, we have to be the ones who start to create it.

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And we can create it.

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For we are not alone and our connection to everything else means we are the creators of our world.

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As one little change in a fractal picture changes the entire image, so too our seemingly small contribute changes the entire universe.

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So do you consider yourself separate and disconnected from the world around you?

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What energy do you wish to contribute to the universe?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour