How can we change our relationship with our environment?

Question from the Internet:

“How do I live in peace when my environment is negative? I can’t leave or cut them off because I live with them, and I’m too young to move out.”

We won’t be able to solve this problem until we keep looking at other people and the environment as something separate from us. We will get closer to true solutions only when we finally understand and actually feel how mutually integrated and interdependent we all are.

When we already sense and experience that we are all individual cells of the same living body, we get the right worldview, and as a result, we can start working on changing things.

The most important to understand is that it is not that the environment or others are negative, harmful, and need changing. As long as we maintain this attitude, nothing will change.

We are all born with an inherently egocentric, subjective, self-serving, and self-justifying attitude and perception of reality. Thus we always want others and the world to change so we can feel better and continue our own self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic calculations and actions.

Only when we understand and humbly accept that we are all the same and we all need to change, can we hope for something better.

Then comes the next step, that I actually need to change my approach and attitude towards others before waiting for them to change, even if the changes have to happen mutually towards each other. But from my own point of view, I have to take the first step. Then when I have already started to change my viewpoint and behavior toward others, then I will also start to see and feel them differently.

Of course, this is something we cannot just start to do on our own. We need a special, mutually committed, and mutually supportive environment with the right method to start changing our viewpoints and relationship with other people. At first, a more sensitive and willing critical minority of people need to practice and implement such self-changes, and later they will be able to pull others behind them through their positive example while the general society continues to collapse and suffer.