One Improved Unit for a Better World

What can one man do to change the world? What can be accomplished in the one small fraction of eternity allotted each of us that could make any difference? Is anything expected of us, and if so, what and by whom?

To transform the world, we must first become what we would like the world to be – more loving, kind, charitable, understanding, etc. If there is anything or anyone that we can and must change, it is ourselves. First, we must embody those values we seek in others. Where there is bad, we must create good. Where there is ignorance, we must provide knowledge. Where there is poverty, we must create wealth; and in each instance, for ourselves first. Allow no guilt where the self is honored above all else. And if it is found there, waste no time in replacing it with pride. If we realize that the world will never change until we do - and that when we do - it changes too, then we will recognize the amazing power we each possess to re-create not only the world, but the universe.

We are each the microcosm of - the template and the blueprint for - the world we dream of, or the world we dread. Our thoughts and actions are mighty. We are not only shaped by the world we live in, we shape the world by living in it. Yes, by merely existing, each one of us makes the world a different place than it would otherwise be but for our presence. For better or for worse, for good or for evil, one individual makes a difference.

So what is exactly expected of us? That we will transform the world is a given; it is an inherent quality of being alive and not volitional. But how we will transform it is purely up to us. We have been set in motion by an external force, but the direction we take and the destination we reach is of our own internal creation. Knowing this is as humbling as it is empowering. We will each modify the world in some way – leaving it a little bit better or a little bit worse than we found it.

Every thought we have and every action we take, whether intentional or inadvertent, is indelibly notated in the “annals of evermore”. We may be able to compensate for those we regret with subsequent thoughts and actions, but we cannot erase them. So let each succeeding thought and action be better than the preceding
one. And make each new day superior to its forerunner. Change the whole by taking full responsibility for just one of its parts. And if each of its parts accepted this responsibility, we would all be fulfilling our one and only obligation – that which is expected of us by life itself. It asks of us no more, but no less than to present the world with one improved unit.

As a natural health consultant for over 25 years Mark Houllif has been teaching the scientific principles of health promotion. The goal is to guide the individual back to health using natural and nutritonal methods. By removing the causes of disease and establishing conditions of health we allow the body to most powerfully manifest its natural healing tendencies.