The difference between being an Ex-pat and being a Refugee is which Story you Choose to empower, and whether your choice of Story is Conscious or Unconscious.

Choosing is one of your 3 Powers as a human being. The other two powers are Declaring and Asking. You are already using all three powers in your daily life, but until you make these powers conscious, you use them unconsciously to create a life that can only serve Unconscious Purposes.

It is possible to take Radical Responsibility for Choosing to be where you are.

Most of us thoughtlessly use the Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware (S.H.I.T.) that modern culture gives us from our families and from school. In Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware, choosing is unconscious. The meme of making choices conscious is not offered.

An Ex-pat unconsciously chooses to live in the story-world that they are where they are - which is presumably in a country or culture that is different from their birth culture - by their own choice... for the reason that gives them a better life.

A Refugee, on the other hand, unconsciously chooses to live in the story-world that they are forced to be where they are by the circumstances... and they are there for the reason that if they did not come here they would not survive.

Yes, these two stories are different - that use by the Ex-pat and that used by the Refugee, but In both cases the choice of which story they use has been made unconsciously.

It is exciting to discover the Possibility of consciously making the choice about being Ex-pat or a Refugee, regardless of the circumstances. Such a choice does not depend on the reason of the circumstances because the choice is made according to your own Authority.

Taking back your Authority to Choose means that no one can make your choice for you. More interestingly, no one can stop you from making this choice yourself. You can reclaim your Authority to make this choice about which Story you use.

When choices start to become Conscious, there is an additional Possibility that you can claim for yourself.

This is new Possibility is the option of choosing the outcome that is there, even if it seems that no other option was available for you to choose from. This is called 'choosing what is'.

How can you call it 'making a choice' if there is only one option to choose from?

Excellent question!

The choice you get to make is actually the choice between being a Low Drama Victim of the circumstances, or being in High Drama Radically Responsible Creator of those exact same circumstances in which you have but one option to choose from and have chosen it.

By choosing what is, you are no longer a Victim of what is, but have become the Creator of what is, because now you have consciously chosen it. Your choosing can be real even if it is beyond other people's permissible comprehension because to them is seems illogical or unreasonable.

By standing in your natural Adulthood Authority and making the conscious Radically Responsible choice to choose what is, for example, "Yes. I choose to be here where I am," then no matter how you physically came to be where you are, you have killed the Refugee's Victim Story and transformed yourself from being a Refugee into being an Ex-pat.

This is a powerful option open to actually anyone.

There are over 300 million refugees now roving the Earth without a country.

Some have been forced to leave their homelands by war, corrupt government, climate change, draught, flood, or famine. These are the 'Armageddon Refugees'.

Some have been forced to leave their homelands by awareness expansion. The culture of their birth no longer holds enough reality to make any sense. These are the 'Transformation Refugees'.

Both kinds of refugees have gone in search of something better. The moment you shift away from perceiving yourself as a victim of circumstances and start perceiving yourself as a chosen one who has been given great opportunity to create something, you become a New Refugee.

Perhaps going in search of something better is the wrong strategy... perhaps there isn't anything better to find...

Not finding something better does not mean that something better can not be made.

Whose job is it to make something better? We are claiming that making something better is the job of the New Refugees. In other words, you.

How can you make something better? It seems obvious that you do not have the authority, the power, the money, the resources, the connections, maybe even the vision to make things better... so how can you make something better?

You have the CLARITY to make it better! You have the ENERGY to make it better! And you have the TEAM to make it better! These are the perfect ingredients for making it better!
 

You have CLARITY to make it better because you recognize things that have not worked. That clarity is treasure.

You have ENERGY to make it better through your pain about what you have lost, your pain about hopes that have been shattered, your pain about people you have lost, your pain about things that are broken or destroyed. Consciously feeling and applying the wisdom of your pain and suffering is the ENERGY for making things better. This pain is gold.

You have a TEAM to make it better in all your fellow New Refugees, whether they originated as Armageddon Refugees or Transformation Refugees.

All New Refugees have something in common. You carry enough pain about what does not work to serve you as designers of the next culture. Your pain is the key to creating new ways of life, new circular organizations, new regenerative agriculture, new radically responsiblep infrastructure, new gameworlds.

The New Refugee strategy is clear. "You won't change things by fighting the existing gameworlds. You change things by creating new gameworlds that make the existing gameworlds irrelevant."

The pain-empowered clarity about what does not work from you and your team's recent life experiences is the catalyst for creating new gameworlds that have a new chance of working.