Life feels weird right now: here's why & what we can do about it

If you're reading this, it's likely because you're sensing that something is changing in the world. Something is changing within you. It may feel like there's something old that's ending. But the new hasn't formed just yet.

You may feel a sense of empowerment at some moments. Clarity that you may have never experienced before. And maybe some moments you feel the complete opposite, like you're lost in the fog. Like things don't really make sense, or things are not what they used to be, or not what they seemed to be.

This is a message to support you in this time.

The stepping away.

I've noticed that many things in the world over the last 5 years or so have been slowly moving towards this moment. If we go back even further, I believe this shift has been happening for a long time.

For me personally, over the last year, and specifically over the last 3 months, I have taken a big break from technology.

I've been outside more, spending more time in nature, with family, with animals, reading, and deleting all social media apps from my phone.

Honestly, I've been battling with this inner dialogue of "do I even want to be online anymore?"

For context, I've had a business for the last five years that is run solely online. All based on social media to some degree.

For a long time it's like we've been living inside a bubble that's not reality. Living inside of this little world of social media that has consumed us.

This time away from technology has helped me tap into more of my intuitive sense. What I'm seeing is that there's something changing and collapsing.

Now, this is not to give you a sense of fear, there's nothing to be afraid of. This is a positive message, because it's a calling forward for everybody.

Let's get into what some of this really means.

The long awakening.

Around the years of 2012/2013, I had my first "spiritual awakening". A time where I started to see through the illusions of things like Hollywood, the entertainment and music industry, and different fear-based narratives that were being pushed into society for mass consumption.

Now, at that time I wasn't surrounded by anybody who could support that, and I felt crazy a lot of the time. I went down these rabbit holes of "conspiracy theories". Then, throughout the last number of years, and 2020 was a big year of this, all of these "conspiracies" started to appear a little too real.

Now, this is not about conspiracy theories and whether they're true or not.

However, over time I've noticed within myself and others that there's been more of these "spiritual awakenings" happening. There's been more people realising that something is not right. That we are oftentimes being controlled and being distracted from the true source of light within our own selves.

2020 was a big year of awakening for many people. The lockdowns, people being stuck in their home, and now the data that has come out in recent years about the inexcusable deception and lies people were told about what they were putting in their body.

What's most interesting is what this led to, up to the present day, over the last five or six years or so.

We are now at a time where not only is more of humanity waking up, but more people are questioning, what am I really a part of?

And this can feel disorientating. Maybe you're questioning your work, maybe you're questioning your role within society, maybe you're looking around at people and you're seeing how disconnected people are and you feel like the odd one out.

Maybe you're looking around and seeing the poisoning of our food, chemtrails, the celebrities who are not here for our highest good, but for our entertainment, to pull our attention away from truth.

All of it is stored in this little device that we carry around with us religiously, that we did not consent to at the end of the day.

What I've been feeling is that there's a shift happening in the world, and this shift is calling us forward. These awakenings are a call forward to walk our own unique path.

The personal legend.

I've been revisiting some books since coming back to the countryside, and one of the books I've been revisiting is The Alchemist. It's a book I read many years ago and reread recently. I'm not going to give it away, I would recommend to definitely read it if you haven't, or reread it if you haven't checked it out in a while.

It's a beautiful book, beautiful story. It's about following your personal legend. This is what I feel we all collectively need to connect to more within our own individual self, so that we can contribute to something that happens greater in this world.

There's something about the work that we do, or the adventure that we go on, that deeply connects us to the world. We start to notice the synchronicities, and the different characters that pop up in our story. We start to experience the world in a new way guided by the work we do.

When I started to walk my own path back in 2020, I started my own business online, primarily content creation and freelancing.

My core desire was freedom, sovereignty. I didn't want to work a typical job. I felt like that wasn't for me. I wanted to do something that brought me enjoyment, and gave me more capacity to earn bigger and travel the world while doing it.

So over the last 5 years, I've done that. And my business has evolved over time.

It took me down the route that nobody else (I knew at the time) was going.

Everybody I was in college with, family, and friends told me I was going on the wrong path. But something was pulling me forward. It was up to me to make the choice to move toward this with the level of certainty I had, which was not much.

I'm not a religious person. Spiritual is something I would resonate more with. But at that time, I was still really uncovering what it means to be a man of faith. So this path brought me on a journey to understand what that means and embody it.

This book helped me revisit some of the core aspects of what we're truly here to do, which is follow our personal legend.

When we do that, the universe, the world, God conspires to work with you.

In these times of uncertainty, when we don't know what's happening in the world, things feel confusing, we don't relate to many people around us, or there's just something that feels off and we don't know what that is.

It's time to come back into our heart. It's time to look within.

I know for me personally (not the case for everyone) my work is the thing that gives me deep fulfillment and joy. It allows me to stay connected to myself, the world and to service, especially when the world feels crazy.

It invigorates my soul and empowers me to contribute.

There's a beautiful line in this book:

“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

What is one of the core things that brings us that happiness? the work we do.

And it's not always related to building a business or the typical form of content creation that you may see now. A personal legend or a mission may be something different entirely for you. You're the only one who will know what that truly means for you.

I believe this is the thing that's going to anchor us and ground us in these uncertain times where people are losing trust in old-fashioned, traditional education systems.

I went through the college system. But I looked around and I saw that many of these teachers were teaching things that they did not live, they didn't seem to enjoy their life or what they did and as someone who loved to learn that felt wrong to me.

Walking my own path was part of me discovering what it truly means to apply education and to learn through embodiment in the world, rather than going into a job where you're a number, not treated fairly and not treated with love. We're here for something so much greater than that.

It's worth the time to know yourself so deeply that you can't help but see that your path is just for you.

When you see that, it removes all distractions just as a byproduct of you knowing where your focus lies. That's the thing that can carry you forward. It's there for you and for you only.

Rebuilding something new.

As we see the collapse of these different systems, it is up to us to rebuild something new. This does not mean we go off and we try to "save the world". We start with ourselves

We start with doing the work within to let go of the illusion of fear, to come back to the divine essence within ourselves, to connect with something bigger, and to find out what our personal mission is in this world and live it.

That is our contribution. If every single person does that, the world changes as a byproduct. A beautiful Utopia is born.

I envision that we can live in a world where systems are here to support us, not control us. Where life is mutually beneficial for everyone, not all going to one company. Where we are connected, because we're supporting one another, not in competition with eachother.

When you come back to the true essence within your heart, it allows you to tap into what you're meant to truly do and be here, and you will be supported in that endeavor.

I can say that because I've lived it myself.

The amount of times I went through experiences where challenges and tests were all around me. Financial struggles, my bank account hitting zero, moving around to different countries and not having a home, building my business and thinking how do I do this? How do I learn these skills? How do I help more people?

Having moments where I was at rock bottom with no answers in sight.

But always, in everything that I did, I was supported.

Whether it was through people, resources flowing in at the perfect time, or whether it was through finances that was coming in through the business because it was in momentum. I experienced the highs and lows of all of it, but I was always supported. It just took me a long time to realize that.

When I look back in hindsight, all of these experiences helped me become a man of faith..

Faith and certainty beyond my logical mind.

When we're in our mind, we're in our head, we're looking for certainty outside of ourselves. We're looking for systems, we're looking for gurus, we're looking for people to tell us what the answer is.

The answer is within you.

But can you get still enough to find it? And allow that to be your guiding light.

To not need 10 steps, but to know the next step. To know that you always have exactly what you need to move forward.

You are never left in the dark.

Once we illuminate the dark moments with our faith that everything comes from the light, the darkness goes away.

The illusion of fear.

It's like the story of David and Goliath. Goliath is like our mind. It's the illusion of fear. We have the power within us to defeat Goliath.

To conquer our mind is not to destroy it, suppress it or run away from it, but to tame it so that it supports us.

When we start to understand that we are bigger than the mind, we begin to see we are part of an infinite field of consciousness that is here supporting us. We see that we have the answers through that connection and we trust that there is something more beautiful unfolding than what appears to be around us in the physical world.

The more you walk the path of your personal legend, the more you dissolve fear. At some point throughout the journey you arrive where fear is just simply something that you can laugh with. Not to remove, but just to see how it's helping you grow.

You see how it's helping you walk this path with deeper certainty, to serve others, to serve humanity, and to serve yourself, to create the life of your dreams.

Your hearts desires are your right. You wouldn't have these desires if they weren't meant for you.

Our desires are going to be planted along this path to get us to move forward. It's like a direction, a thing that pulls you forward.

The desires that we have for freedom, for love, for perfect expression, for wealth, for abundance, for support, are your divine right. We just have to trust that when we follow our path we will be supported. That only comes from taking the leap.

The invitation.

This next chapter is not going to be the same as the last number of years. We are rebuilding something new. All of us.

There is a call for you to step into a greater level of leadership.

Whether that's for the people around you, clients in your business, your online community, your local community or family. This is about bringing power back into the people's hands. This is about us creating unity in a world that has been so obsessed with separating us with opposing beliefs.

Opposing beliefs are simply just an illusion to separate us from each other, to fight in the social media comments, believing there's one right and one wrong. That's false. All ideas are part of the unified field and they're all welcome. There is no separation.

When we believe that there is separation, because we want to be right so someone else can be wrong, we want to be superior because someone else is then inferior, that is all an illusion. That's what keeps us in the very system that we're here to break away from.

What we can come back to is that you have a purpose, and I have a purpose. And when we all come together and do that with the highest good in mind, following the thread of our desires to fulfil our own personal dream life, that collectively creates a unified field where we work in harmony.

That's how we create a beautiful world.

Don't buy into the illusion of fear. Don't think that there's something terrible happening in the world. Trust deeply that all of this is a blessing in disguise, because it is.

Chaos is just things that are rearranging within us, when we feel chaos within and within the world at large. When chaos is emerging, there's something beautiful being born. We have to trust that beyond what we see outside us, especially when it feels uncertain and it doesn't look the way we would like it to.

The invitation for all of us right now is to come back to trusting ourselves deeper, instead of looking for something outside of ourselves. You would not be in this position if you were not able to handle it.

You are well equipped to be able to conquer anything that shows up on your path.