Resonance Over Reaction: Steadiness in a System Designed to Trigger You

Jodi’s message landed in me like a tuning fork.

Not new information. Not something I had never understood. But a remembering.  A reminder.  At just the right moment.

Since election night in early November 2024, when it felt like the fate of the free world had been tossed to the wolves, I have been carrying something heavy. As an empath, I did not just witness what was happening in our country. I felt it. The fear. The despair. The rage. The hate. The collective nervous system on fire.

I have seen the manipulation. The distortion. I have felt the unraveling. And I have struggled with how to witness it without being in it.

For a while in early 2025, it felt like I was shouting into an empty, dark room. Hello? Isn't anyone else seeing this train wreck?

But now I do see it. I see people using their voices. I see Americans standing for love, for connection, for the rights of all. I see courage rising. I see community forming. I see that I was never alone.

Jodi's post cracked me open.  I have been marinating in the very outrage that I knew was lowering my own frequency.

I have been carrying a torch is not mine alone to carry.

And I am tired.

My nervous system has been paying the price for trying to anchor stability while swimming in chaos. That is not conscious leadership. That is depletion.

Her reminder is simple and powerful: discipline.

Discipline over what I consume.
Discipline over how long I sit in outrage.
Discipline over which thoughts I allow to loop.
Discipline over what enters my nervous system.

and I would add:  Discipline over how I take responsibility for calming my nervous system.

I can know the truth without being consumed by it.
I can feel the weight without becoming the weight.
I can serve humanity from coherence instead of reactivity.

Disorganized, chaotic, fear-based energy cannot sustain itself when it encounters a stable, regulated, internally aligned system.

Darkness depends on reaction.
Coherence removes the reaction.

Mic drop.

So I am choosing. Drawing a line in the sand. I'm proclaiming.  I am choosing to regulate instead of react. I am choosing to protect my nervous system. I am choosing to hold a steadier frequency.

Not because I am ignoring what is happening.
But because I understand that how I hold myself is part of what creates what happens next.  (Law of Attraction, and all...)

Resonance decides everything.

And I am stepping fully into the version of me that remembers that.