New Consciousness Review Summer 2016 | Page 8

INSPIRATION HEALTH the hope that I can change the world from the inside out. There is a growing number of people who are reading books (air), studying mediation (water), doing yoga (earth), and going to the movies (fire) in an effort to find the impetus for transformation - all without realizing that the actual change required must begin with a conscious decision. It’s not enough to read, eat, watch, or try – what’s required is an awareness around the power of your choosing to be the agent of change. Whichever one of these things you don’t do - read, eat healthy food, exercise, or meditate is your missing element. What I have found most difficult in my own work is helping and encouraging people to do the counter-intuitive thing, to go against their natural impulse and introduce something unfamiliar – to introduce their missing element into their lives. What is your missing element, what are you resisting? Resistance is merely the indicator of a lazy ego. The ego doesn’t want to do what your soul is asking for. If you ask me, this human reaction is a bad design. D ebra Silverman works on an individual basis as well as in workshops to impart emotional wisdom through a simplified language that describes the qualities of Water, Air, Earth and Fire. She received an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She trained at York University and studied Dance Therapy at Harvard. www.debrasilvermanastrology.com 8 | New Consciousness Review By observing yourself and finding out what element you are missing in your own life it is my hope that you will in turn, enroll your agents of change, and start transforming on the inside out by introducing something new. For me as a mixture of air and fire I had to learn to it to was cleaning my closets and taking care of money and practicality. I was missing Earth. That’s what I resisted said the airhead. My life became balanced once I included the missing element. Our planet, a beautiful mix of all the elements is in trouble, we’ve poisoned the water, polluted the air, pulled the raw materials from the Earth and fires rage on in all corners of the planet as it is tipped out of balance. There are 7 billion people on this planet – everyone you’ve ever known is here. The question is, will you play your role in the tapestry of life in respect of the elements? It will make all the difference in the world. Don’t ever underestimate the power of one in tandem with the right use of the elements. The world was created by the four elements and it will either be destroyed by our inability to dance with them or it will be healed – it’s our choice.