That is necessary in this work. In any work, really.
Change-makers are never liked by everyone, for they make change, and people do not like change.
People are wired for familiarity and predictability, for the known, because the known feels safe.
It may not feel good, but good is less important than safe.
The most fundamental needs of life are safety and reproduction.
Only when those are met, can we climb the evolutionary ladder of consciousness.
As Joe Dispenza says, you don’t think about remodeling your kitchen when a hurricane is coming.
What does that have to do with the courage to be disliked?, he asks. We ask.
That courage stems from a sense of safety. You must find a sense of safety to introduce change.
There are two kinds of safety (or unsafety), real and perceived.
Being charged by a tiger is a real aspect of safety.
Lying in bed at night anxious about the economy is perceived.
Another way to look at this is: present or not present.
A charging tiger is a real and present danger.
Worrying about the economy is a thought. It only exists in the mind. It is an illusion that can trick you into feeling unsafe despite actually being safe.
The illusion is also that this kind of thinking enhances your safety, and some of you will vehemently defend it.
We want you to know that worrying, and anxiety, and all of their related states do not enhance your actual safety.
All that it takes is discernment. There are certain parts in your town that you do not go to, because its unsafe. You don’t worry about it, you just know. You know not to touch a hot stove without losing sleep over it.
Negative states of anticipation such as worry are faulty programs. They are looking for former threats that no longer exist. You do the same thing.
You drain and waste your valuable resources on imagined threats.
We’re not saying you should be ignorant. If a hurricane is coming, prepare for it. And you can do that without worry, stress, or anxiety.
You actually drastically increase your safety that way, because you conserve your resources so that they can be deployed when you encounter real threats instead of wasting them on imagined ones.
Ask yourself:
“Do the feelings in my body match my environment?”
Look around. Is there a tiger charging you, or any other real threat?
This simple question, told to Anton by Doug Brackmann, helps the nervous system to orient and notice the discrepancy between the inner and outer worlds.
It is a very effective method for settling down.
Sometimes you have to ask it a lot.
So, to change, you must feel safe.
To help others change, you must help them feel safe. This work is to individually and collectively see through the illusions that make people feel unsafe and find safety in the present moment.
Only from that place can you truly create. Because only in that state do you have the resources.
You cannot run the design software on your computer if all its resources are clogged up looking for viruses. Which is not to say that looking for viruses is useless. It just has to be appropriate.
You are safe in most moments.
Even a soldier’s career is only briefly punctuated by active combat. We don’t mean to say it’s not risky, and in no way do we mean to diminish what they do.
There is a difference between the possibility of threat and actual threat happening.
Between the possibility of an attack and an actual attack.
To use a more relatable example: There is a possibility of a car crash every time you drive. Out of all of those moments of possibility, how many moments of actual crashing have happened to you?
You don’t have to be stressed, anxious, worried about driving. All you need is to be awake and alert, so that you can respond when the situation actually becomes threatening.
To bring it back to our original point. Set the intention to be present. Set the intention to be safe. Set the intention to be awake and alert. To respond to threat when it is present, and otherwise, to use your energy constructively, collectively.
As a collective, this is one of your greatest challenges AND opportunities. As a collective, you waste so many resources on fighting illusions rather than actual threats.
You fight your thoughts instead of tigers. You fight ideas and concepts and beliefs.
The time has come to see through that, to transcend that. To use your abundant resources on growth and repair instead of survival.
The time of survival has long passed.
The virus[^1] has long disappeared. It only lives on as an idea in your minds. And ideas are the easiest things to change.
Again, we ask you to believe in the idea of abundance. The only obstacle is your collective belief. Belief is the first domino. Tip that and everything else falls into place.
Aho.
[^1]: They’re not referring to COVID.