The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine June, 2016 | Page 5

realities that we face and the promise that they
hold. A good place to begin is by acknowledging the
fact that we?re living in a time of extremes.
A Time of Ext remes
We?re living in a time when we can expect big things
to happen? big shifts in the world and big changes
in our lives. And just to be clear, the extremes I?m
talking about don?t necessarily have to be only bad
things. And they don?t even need to be good things
for that matter. It?s just that they?re big things. And
big things are happening all around us in our lives as
well as our world. While I?ll describe the reasons for
the extremes in the upcoming chapters, the key here
is that we?re living a rare era of transition.
We?re living the
emergence of a new
?normal,? and the
success of our
transition hinges upon:
(1) our willingness to
acknowledge the shift,
and (2) our ability to
embrace it in a healthy
way. Our globalized
culture of jobs, money,
markets, and resources
means that it?s now
impossible to separate
the extremes in the
world from what they
mean in our everyday
lives.
The crisis of climate
change is a perfect
example of this
connection; the record-setting droughts caused by
shifts in global weather patterns translate directly
into scarcity of seasonal crops and the higher prices
we pay for food at our local markets. The extreme
debt and failing economies on the other side of the
planet translate directly into higher costs at the gas
pump and higher ticket prices for the buses, trains,
and taxis that take us to work each day. Because of
these and other extremes, business loans have
become less available, and the interest we?re being
paid on our savings, checking and retirement

accounts hovers near an all-time record low zero
percent. The global slowdown of industry
translates directly into the loss of jobs and job
security in our local communities.
These are the kinds of extremes in the world that
are creating big changes in our lives. Among the
many uncertainties they bring, though, there?s
one thing that we can be sure of: our lives are
changing in ways that we?re not used to, not
prepared for, at a speed that we?ve never known.
The Key
I?m an optimist by nature. I see real reasons for
optimism in our lives. At the same time I?m also a
realist. I am under no illusions when it comes to
the huge amount
of work that it
takes to find our
way into the new
world that lies
before us. Our
ability to
successfully meet
the challenges that
are converging in
our lives begins by
our acknowledging
what may be the
most obvious yet
difficult question
we could ask of
ourselves: How can
we deal with the
issues unless we?re
willing to
acknowledge the
issues?
Our willingness to embrace this simple question
is the key to developing more resilience in our
time of extremes.
Everyone Is on t he Journey
A big difference between trips that we may have
taken in the past and the big journey that we?re
on now is that today we don?t get to pick our
traveling companions. The reason is simple:
Everyone on the planet is part of our journey. No
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