Before I took a chance 6 years ago on finding meaning in life, I was living my life like a lot of people do. Fairly consciously but aware of the fact that I am not really conscious of what is going on. I often felt that life happened to me and that I had to make the most with that, which is happening to me. Many a times I thought and felt that I was a victim to life. Then along the way after a few times where Liani and myself visualized what we wanted and true’s God we received it not far into the future as well as now after Liani had her accident and my visualizations of her being healthy and vibrant I saw her miraculously recovering in less the time that most doctors anticipated. I remembered, all the many moments when we were in a “dangerous” space I felt scared to the point where I could barely breath where Liani taught me so much about having positive thoughts and believing that I am invincible to all bad.

I was sitting with a dear friend of ours Rona and her who neighbor gave me a dvd of Louise Hay when I realized that what we have been doing for the past 6 years in our lives are actually a very practical and positive approach to living your life in which you create your own circumstances. An adventurous sense of living started to boil from inside me. Maybe I can help people to realize that they too can begin to be positive and create their own circumstances in their lives. Maybe, more people can begin to live up to their potential and live a positive life in which they too will lead a life of abundance. Have a home where they feel safe with clean safe water to drink and be healthy. Being exposed to people and in particular Liani, I started to try and become more conscious of the thoughts I am thinking. And also when I think a thought that I don’t want to have to come true in a future experience I would turn it around with a positive one.

Especially in our Country, South Africa, where most of us feel like victims who’s being misled and manipulated by money and power hungry chosen few. I started to become aware of what I said out loud about the current political situations or the racial conflicts or the millions of unemployed, hungry people. Most of what I use to think and say was negative and if that should have to come true I would not want to be around. I changed the way I was thinking about a variety of things in my immediate environment, one of which was just to start to smile and everyone crossing my path on a daily basis and what I have now in my life is an abundance of friends, all positive successful healthy people.

I remember sitting in the bus with a group of media and mining people on our way to Olifantsriver Catchment area where we were invited to attend a CSIR informational session on what types of pollution is currently happening to Loskopdam and the catchment when I realized that this is exactly why we have learnt and became conscious about. Passionate researchers motivated to finding solutions were targeted with all sorts of negative questions like: Who did this, and why would they do that and how many people will suffer from this and how bad is the impact? I started to wonder what if the group of us started thinking positively towards the outcome we all wanted to see, what would happen to this life source?

Taking responsibility for what I am thinking and saying and affirming that what I am thinking and saying has an impact on my own circumstances and my environment means that I am living a life of abundance with water clean and safe to drink. It means that in my life I see people having their own journeys and doing the best they can. I see people around me starting to love themselves again and in return loving and caring for the environment in which they live. Life is not meant to be a struggle it’s meant to be simple and we are all meant to have all what we need and be free.

With 35 days left to the start of the World Cup and our departure of our Ripples expedition I am looking around me and appreciating my current comforts of having a warm soft bed to sleep in and I enjoy the loving of family and friends who I won’t be seeing for a long while again. I am grateful for the joy in life and for all the good I have experienced so far in my short 29 years here on earth. Only GOOD lies before me, bring life on and let it be.