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Here's a question for you today:
Do you remember a specific moment, event or point in your life that caused you to completely change your belief systems - usually for the better? Do you remember what it was?
I think many of us have gone through a life-changing moment - maybe even a few- and that is why we're fortunate enough to be students of Silva.
But a turning point can come in many other ways in life, just like it did with these 2 ex-US army soldiers who started the Contagious Love Experiment project.
What is it? In a nutshell, it's a project to spread more love across the planet 
In this very inspiring article, 2 former US Army officers talk about how they reached a turning point in their lives due to a series of events and finally realized how they were stuck in their mental confines, surrounded by their own hatred and unhappiness.
They now walk and bike across the country, to not only spread love but also to meet people, talk about their experiences in the war, and learn about other organizations that started with one person’s idea of change.
Get inspired and read the rest of the article below. Don't forget to share with us what your moment of change was
Cheers,
Jill
What one experience completely changed your belief system?
The Contagious Love Experiment sounds like a ’70s rock band. It’s not. It’s the title of a cross-country journey made by two Iraq vets—Josh Steiber and Conor Curran—that started this past summer. Inspired by the title of Gandhi’s autobiography (The Story of My Experiments with Truth), Josh decided to become a conscientious objector. His plan: to walk and bike across the country, meet people, talk to them about his experiences in the war, and to learn about other organizations that started with one person’s idea of change.
Wait. Hold on. Iraq vets? Gandhi? War stories? Bike rides? Contagious love? Yes, my thoughts exactly. I had to talk to these guys.
Josh Steiber Says No to War and Yes to Change
I first spoke with Josh, the initial instigator of the experiment. He decided to join the army right after 9/11 when he was still in middle school. He felt that if there was a war going on when he was of age, he was going to enlist. And he did: High-school graduation was in June of ’06, basic training began in July, and by February’07, he was deployed to Baghdad. On the surface, there wasn’t a person better suited for the job. He was young, healthy, and strong. He grew up attending religious schools where he read about “the prophecy of George Bush”. He believed that “we” were right and “they” were wrong. He wanted to help rid the world of the bad guys in much the same way a doctor would cut out a tumor.
Once he got there though, his reasoning began to make a lot less sense. “I realized things weren’t so black and white. I realized that much of my decision to enlist was based on fear and paranoia and hatred. Kicking down doors of people’s homes on a daily basis in order to find anything suspicious, seeing innocent people die—it forced me to question my own beliefs and to realize that I needed to start looking at people with compassion,” Josh says.
