Tuning In

Every person you encounter is livestreaming from their own consciousness. No script, no delay, pure unfiltered state-of-Being content.

Some streams are clean. Most are noisy. And more than a few are complete system meltdowns.

Here's the part that will save you considerable suffering: none of it is about you.

The Transmission Path

All action is born of thought. All thought comes from consciousness. Stressed consciousness produces stressed thoughts. Small consciousness produces self-focused actions. Expanded consciousness produces something entirely different.

Everyone is operating from their own state of consciousness. Which means everyone is always reporting on their internal state.

The aggressive driver who just screamed a profanity isn't actually looking for an intimate relationship with you.

The passive-aggressive 'per my last email' isn't about the project — it's about someone who still mistakes corporate courtesy for actual communication.

Maybe that unexpected generosity isn't necessarily about you being so special.

These are just real-time feeds from someone's current state of consciousness.

Stop Taking It Personally

Understanding that everyone operates from their own state of consciousness is immediately liberating.

That person who cut you off in traffic? Report on their state. The friend who flaked again? Report on their state. The colleague who took credit for your work? Report on their state. Your ex's Instagram post clearly designed to make you jealous? Report on their state.

None of it is a comment on you.

When you stop interpreting other people's livestreams as personal attacks, you free up enormous bandwidth. The mental energy you were spending on "why did they do that to me" becomes available for more interesting questions. Like: what's actually happening here? What state are they streaming from? What's the appropriate response?

Once we realize this, we can stop being a victim of other people's content.

You might not do what another person does. But if you were them — with their consciousness, their stress load, their accumulated history — you would do exactly what they do.

Interference

Sometimes people try to fake the feed.

Like mandatory fun at team-building exercises where everyone performs enthusiasm while dying inside. Or the performance review dance where we pretend 360-degree feedback is about growth when it's really threat assessment.

But nowhere is this fakery more exhausting than in the spiritual marketplace:

• The "high vibe tribe" teaching abundance from their parents' basement

• Instagram enlightenment where sunset photos overlay internal dumpster fires

• Spiritual show-offs radiating peace while running DEFCON 1 stress protocols

The fake-it-till-you-make-it approach to expanded consciousness doesn't work. Never has. It's like trying to convince your body you've eaten by chewing air. Worse still, pretending to operate from a higher state of consciousness creates strain: on you, on everyone around you, and on the whole environment.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. Natural means acting from our actual state of consciousness without pretense. Not the state we wish we had. Not the state we're performing for social media. The state we're actually in.