08/02/2026
DEALING WITH THIS CRAZY POLITICAL CLIMATE....
"I acknowledge that harm exists.
I refuse to let my awareness be consumed by representations of it."
This is my new mantra for dealing with the deepening revelations of the darkness behind our political systems and power structures.
I am sharing this because over the last few months, I have been wrestling with how to deal with my horror as more and more of the darkness is being brought into the light so we can see it and I wanted to share my thoughts and conclusions and what helps me.
What has been bothering me in particular, is my feelings of anger at those who refuse to acknowledge these horrors with huge contortions in thinking in order to continue to belief in the system.
What I mean is those saying "its fake news", "I believe the science", "that image is AI generated".
I know that feelings of anger are always based in powerlessness.
I also know that the truth of this human experience is that we are all one and that we are experiencing our reality in accordance with what we think and believe, so we are in fact, all powerful as we have absolute power over our own thoughts and beliefs.
So, I know my feelings of powerlessness and therefore anger are based in a false paradigm.
And when I see this, I can see EXACTLY how the same powers of fear, domination and control are working on me to pull me right back to where they can keep me in the experience of powerlessness......
You see, as long as I am projecting anger onto my fellow human beings, I am being pulled into fighting them and seeing them as the problem.
When we are fighting eachother we direct our life energy against eachother and we are then easy to control.
It is the oldest trick in the book for the forces of fear and domination: DIVIDE and CONQUER
Now that I see this, I can understand that the way to take MY power back is to meet my own anger with compassion and see that I am angry because I want these horrors to stop. I want a world where fear domination and control no longer exist. Where survival fear is seen is the illusion that it really is.
And in my moment of forgetting who I am (the one awareness experiencing physical reality through a human body) I am fall into the illusion of believing that it is the "other" humans fault.
The mechanism by which that happens is when I read the news or social media about the state of the world.
Now do you see why the media (controlled by the forces of fear and domination) is so full of these horrors?
Now do you see why the more we can be tempted to spend time scrolling and fighting and feeling fear focussed on these stories, the more time the system can get us to stay in the illusion of our powerlessness?
So this is where the challenge really comes.
Because the next thought is, "should I just ignore all of this and pretend its not happening"
But that feels all wrong at a visceral level too...
It feels like that is exactly the approach that got us here in the first place. Denial of what is actually happening because its too uncomfortable to face.
So what is the answer?
My answer, after many conversations, much soul seeking and contemplation, is encapsulated in this mantra:
""I acknowledge that harm exists. I refuse to let my awareness be consumed by representations of it"
To me this means that I do not turn away. I do not shut it out.
But I also recognise that I must exercise a high level of self discipline by consciously staying away from scrolling the news of this. I must be aware when the anger rises against "MAGA supporters" or people who think Farage is a good guy.
I have to use my mastery of letting that wave of emotion run through my body, observing it rather than identifying with it.
I have to let it remind me that I am the one awareness and not the separate human and that my power is in putting my intention on the version reality I choose and choosing to look for the beauty, the joy and the fun and to amplify the feelings in my body I feel when I see those things, my appreciation and my gratitude for those things.
Because I know how incredibly powerful I am when I embody love, joy, gratitude, delight, life force.
I know how that ripples outwards in ways far more powerful than I can see and know with my human senses.
I know how that is the power that the forces of fear actually fear.
They fear my love.
Because when I choose to be love and too have compassion for all other humans, I do not buy into false fear narratives. I do not silence myself for fear of judgement. I lose my fear of scarcity and lack and no longer need to grasp or compete.
So, I choose to be love.
I believe that this is the greatest power move there is.
Sending love to you
Elizabeth 💓