Things feel agitated and angry inside me right now—and I know I’m not the only one. Everywhere I look, people are restless, stirred up, uneasy in their own skins. It’s as if the ground beneath us is shifting so dramatically that we don’t know what’s real anymore. Nothing is what it seems, and that makes me squirm. Every day I find myself coming back to this: What is true for me? What is mine to carry, and what is not?

Some people call the times we are in the great awakening, the shift, even ascension. Others look to holy books and ancient texts - Krita Yuga, apocalypse, Mayan prophecy the list goes on. Astrologers point to grand alignments and solar physicists study the jump in our sun's activities. No matter how you look at it we are undeniably in transformative times.

For many of us when asked about our true nature, we jump to the labels and boxes we’ve slowly been assigned since birth and most if not all of those assignments have to do with our physical bodies and outward achievements.

Many of us (myself included) feel that we are currently living in the early stages of a global transformation – an evolution that is shifting us into a higher state of consciousness. However, because we’ve been conditioned to live mostly from a place of “seeing is believing” and “waiting for a savior” it is possible that we are slowing our own transformation, waiting for things to change instead of helping to create the light ourselves and shift from the inside out.