So Where’s The World Going To?
By: Erik Pasveer
Tags: Leadership, Creativity, Imagination, Creativity Innovation, Mindfulness

Wouldn’t you like to know with some certainty where the world is going to? How you would you like it if you could actually know, even in some detail, what the world is moving towards in the next say 5–10 years?

Let’s be honest, the question in the title is an impossible question to answer of course, so I won’t try to do that for you.

But what I do know and have come to understand with 100% certainty is that what I cán answer is where MY world is going to.

“Be the change you want to see in the world around you” is perhaps the most famous quote of Mahatma Gandhi, and I have come to understand this quote in an entirely different way over the last few years.

And to be totally honest: I’ve tried a lot of bullshit methods and philosophies in the process!

A car accident causing a whiplash in 2005 was the starting point of a search for healing. After having tried the ‘normal’ stuff, normal being what I was familiar with at that time, I started looking for alternative treatments after 3 years without hardly any progress. A good friend of mine pointed me towards a naturopathic therapist, and as I had nothing to lose, I went.

And this proved to be a key turning point in my life.

Without appearing to do all that much, during this first session, I started to feel relaxed in a way that I could not remember ever having felt like this before. As I came home, my wife immediately noticed a shift in my energy, and this made her want to come with me to my 2nd appointment, as this shift was significant in her experience.

My wife was 20 weeks pregnant of our first child at that time and started to get a bit stressed as she could not yet feel our baby where the internet shouted everywhere that with 20 weeks you should be able to clearly feel your unborn.

Half way into my therapy session, the therapist suddenly turned towards my wife and said “He! I think your child just woke up, did you notice?”

Then, hearing my wife confirm “Yes, I think you’re right, I actually did feel something!”, my curiosity was wide awake.

After my session, we talked a bit more with the therapist about what had happened during my session, and my wife shared her fears about our unborn child. Then Danny, the therapist, asked us if we would be ok with him trying to connect to our child. Not knowing what he meant with this or was going to do, we agreed on this as we had a good feeling about him.

He had my wife lie down on the table and stood at her feet, gently placing his hands on her feet and doing nothing else.

After a couple of seconds, I suddenly saw two tiny little feet, wildly, joyously pushing outwards, with the feet clearly imprinted on my wife’s belly. I can’t describe what this did to me, other then that it made me cry and aware of how much stress I actually also had around the question if everything was ok with our unborn child.

It was then and there that I learned two things about myself:

There’s more to life and us humans then meets the eye and I wanted to know ALL about this. I had lost a lot of awareness around what I was feeling throughout the day and about what was going on inside me.

What I became aware of especially is how much tension I had in my body, and how my own thinking was continuously causing this tension. And where there is tension, there is no natural flow. And no natural flow in the body means that (parts of) the body do not get what they would get in a healthy, relaxed situation.

If this is something that happens incidentally it is not so much of a problem. If however, like in my case, you’re walking around every single day with a body full of tension, you’ve got something else going on, and the risks of getting sick are high, as science has clearly shown us but hopefully is also perfectly understandable.

In my case, besides the fact that I was dealing with whiplash complaints that regular treatment modalities could not ‘fix’, I suffered from burning ankles, knees and hips and I was very sensitive to injuries from running and playing Ricochet. So something HAD to change! If I wanted to regain my health that is.

And I did want that. I wanted to feel great! Better then ever before even, something that proved to be very possible after my first session with the naturopathic therapist.

And so my desire for change and an actual change came together and formed the starting point of a journey that would lead me to the understanding that life is all about imagination, and that what I imagine, I experience.

Now before I continue, I would like to point out that this sounds ridiculous to a lot of people. And that is perfectly understandable and ok, as we all have our own unique paths and discoveries to make in life. And again, I’ve tried and tested many bullshit law of attraction methods, to find out that they all did not work unconditionally. Meaning that I could not say with 100% certainty that I DID something that CAUSED the desired result.

And I’m not here to explain everything in detail in order to get you to DO something now, like for example buy a program or something like that. I’ve been there and done that and it did not make me happy, so I quit doing that.

But I do experience with greater ease and success all the time that my imagination is the source of my human experiences. In every aspect of my life: my health, my wealth, my love life, my friends and family, my career, everything.

And as we live in a time that brings a lot of stress, uncertainty and all kinds of challenges for a lot of people, I decided to start writing about the power of imagination, to share both some of the insights that I gained and some of my personal experiences and challenges that came and continuously come with these insights.

So what you will be seeing from me coming period is articles that are about the power of imagination and me sharing insights and results, in order to hopefully make it tangible for you and maybe inspire you to rethink who you are, what you are capable of and how to start to use this potential consciously.

Because you are already imaging. All day every day.

THNX for taking your time to read my first article here on Medium, hopefully untill next time!

Cheers, Erik