An important part of this journey is understanding one of the fundamentals parts of our environment.  You see this concept of personal development is centered around the idea that you have to visualize in your mind what you want to have/do/be before it will ever happen in our physical world.

But the physical world is what needs some explanation first.  Your mind is connected to the physical world, in fact everything is connected to everything.  I don't mean "when a butterfly flaps it's wings it start a tornado" sort of connected, I mean at a much deeper level.

Scientists will tell you that everything around you is energy, just in different forms and levels of vibration.  If you've seen the video The Secret, then you'll recognize the concept of vibration.  I found this one of the most difficult concepts to understand and sometimes still struggle with it today however it's a true test of fully understanding the world around you.  The thing is that even though most things look solid, they are not!

The easiest way to make sense of it is to explain how water can take on different forms.  If you take a cup of water and cool it the energy in the water reduces in vibration and subsequently the water takes on what we perceive as a new form, ice.  If we heat it it goes back to water and we continue to heat it the particles continue to increase in vibration and that turns the water into gas.  We perceive it as gone or vanished however nothing is ever created or destroyed, it simply changes form.

So if something solid like ice is just particles in a different rate of vibration then we can draw the same conclusion about anything that we see as solid.  It's just energy in a low state of vibration!  Even your body, your flesh and muscles and brain and organs are made of energy in different states of vibration.

Further I propose that we have the ability to affect the energy around us in the same was that we can detect the energy around us.  You know how easy it is to 'feel' if someone's in a bad mood, no doubt you've picked up on those sort of things in the past.  Well the reason is that the state of vibration of someone who is angry is typically at conflict with us and so we are able to 'detect' it.  Similarly we can change our own state of vibration and believe it or not you choose to be angry, or happy, or sad, and of course you can change your mood (your state of vibration) just by choosing to do so.

So in effect we change our state of vibration and the state of the energy we put out without even thinking about.  It goes without saying that if you are able to feel someone angry coming into a room then you too put out the same energy when you are angry.  So this means that we have the ability to affect the energy that runs through and around us also!

So we are energy, and everything around is energy.  Simple.

Now the real test is to be in the right mood, to be consciously aware of your state of vibration... and then choosing to change it.