The world you know is collapsing. It is burning, whether you watch it, read about it, spiral over it, or not. But in your personal circle of influence, you can effect a transformation and contribute something that matters. Everything hurts right now, and it is scary. All we hear about is crisis, corruption, war, cruelty, injustice, and hurricanes, fires, earthquakes. It is like we’re watching the world burn down in real time. The crush of too much information and too little agency gives way to a sense of powerlessness and isolation. It can feel like trying to find solid ground in shifting sand.
But powerlessness is an egoic illusion.
The mind, conditioned by fear and attachment, wants to grasp at control where none exists—not over others, not over the world, not over forces far beyond our limited, individual perception. True power cannot be found in controlling outcomes; it is found in mastering the ego-mind that creates the world.
Your circle of influence is real. Not as a motivational concept or a coping mechanism, but as the foundation of conscious action—or rather, non-action or action without ego (see The Spiritual Power of Non-Action). You have more agency than you think. Real power is about:
- Choosing where to direct your attention
- Responding to challenges in a conscious, non-reactive manner
- Cultivating positive energy and investing it in what’s important to you
- Deciding which thoughts and impulses you follow and which ones you drop
- Integrating all of who you are as a hurting world reflects back your negative patterns of perception
- Embodying and expressing in action the Love you truly are
Your Perception Shapes Your Experience of Reality
You may not be able to save the world, for everything in it has its own karmic momentum, but you can place yourself in a more centered and empowered position in your own life-movie to make a difference, to contribute the opposite of what you witness—without fear, without attachment, without being impulsive or reactive. Other people’s choices and the systems that fuel dysfunction and division are beyond our control; they result from forces we cannot understand and actions that have accumulated enough energy to become our reality.
The world has been here before—more than once—and it will continue unfolding as it is meant to. But your job is not about retreating from reality; it is recognizing where real leverage exists. Where you can offer assistance. Where you can share information. Where your love and compassion are needed and you express them with conscious actions. Where you can join forces to feel less isolated and hopeless. Where you can build something that matters, something that’s real.
The ego seeks external power through force; the soul is driven by love to evolve and break free from the delusion of duality through its integration and alignment. Duality means separateness. Separateness means division, which produces fear, and fear causes worry, judgment, and conflict. Only when you turn inward, you reclaim the space where true change begins. The mind goes in circles, obsessing over what it cannot change; it spins and spins like a water wheel bringing old subconscious beliefs and impressions to the surface. It does this to remain in control of your perception, distracting you from what you can actually transform.
Real Transformation Happens From Within
The world is on fire, but you can choose whether to spiral into despair or not. Within your individual sphere, you can cultivate peace. You can be the refuge. You can be the clarity others are too paralyzed to find. This is not denial; it is mastery of the tool that is your mind. You can endlessly scroll on your phone, reading about all that is wrong and falling prey to the fear that the bullies in power promote (see Why Martial Souls Rule The World), or you can create something useful. You can react, or you can build. You can despair, or you can embody what the world is starving for. So start healing, creating, blogging, recording, sharing, rallying, boycotting, and doing whatever you can to expand awareness and love!
In the face of chaos, your power lies in your presence. In your stillness. In your ability to move not from fear but from truth. Real power is not about controlling the world; it is about freeing yourself from the idea that you are in the world—separate from others—rather than the Awareness you really are: the space where everything unfolds on its own. This new perception can be tricky to embrace without guidance, for your identifications keep you stuck in the past, of which the revolving ego-mind is made. So contact me today to break free by gaining emotional and spiritual freedom!
If you’re not ready to work with me one-on-one to delve deeply within, you can learn about the workings of your ego-mind to transform your perception and experience by implementing the Swan Method I share in You Are Your Healer: The Ultimate Guide to Heal Your Past, Transform Your Life & Awaken to Your True Self!
You can also learn more about the battle that has been going on for millennia between masculine (martial) and feminine souls on the planet by reading The Indigo Journals: Spiritual Healing For Indigo Adults & Other Feminine Souls.
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