Sara’s View of Life, with Sara Troy. On air from August 11th
You Are the Love and Peace You Seek
Rising Above Fear and Living from a Higher Consciousness
The world can sometimes feel as though it is turning upside down. We see conflict, poverty, illness, fires, floods, political decisions that do not serve the people, and powerful technologies being used without enough consideration for humanity. When we absorb it all, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, powerless, or under attack.
Yet alongside the suffering is a beautiful, caring, creative, and loving human race. Every day, people step forward with compassion, courage, wisdom, and solutions. The question is: Which part of life are we choosing to feed?
What we feed grows.
When we continually feed fear, anger, division, and helplessness, they take over our thoughts and drain our spirit. But when we feed possibility, responsibility, compassion, and love, we begin to change our own inner world—and that change ripples outward to everyone around us.
One Person Can Create a Ripple
It is easy to look at everything happening and say, “I am only one person. What can I possibly do?”
But one person can change the energy in a home, a family, a workplace, or a community. One person choosing kindness can interrupt cruelty. One person choosing understanding can soften conflict. One person living in truth can give others permission to do the same.
You have the power to change your own life. You can choose to rise into a higher frequency of love, peace, purpose, and conscious awareness. When you do, you become a ripple of possibility for others.
You are the love. You are the peace. You are part of the solution.
Releasing the Programming That No Longer Serves Us
To rise, we first need to look honestly at the beliefs and conditioning we have carried. Many of us were taught to comply, fit in, avoid rocking the boat, and measure our worth through money, beauty, popularity, status, or achievement.
We may still hear the old voices asking, “Who do you think you are?” or telling us that we are not enough, that we will never succeed, that we must do what is expected of us, and that we must never disappoint anyone.
Those messages may have shaped us, but they do not define us. We can pause and ask whether a belief is truly ours, whether it is protecting or limiting us, whether it supports the person we are becoming, and what new possibility we can choose instead.
Deprogramming does not mean throwing away common sense, structure, or responsibility. It means building a life that is meaningful to us rather than living under the endless weight of “should,” “must,” and “you have to.”
Understanding the Human and Embracing the Being
It is important to understand our human operating system: our personality, strengths, challenges, habits, and natural way of moving through life. Tools such as True Colours and Human Design can offer language that helps us recognize what energizes us, where we struggle, and what we may need to delegate or develop.
But we are more than our personality. Beneath the roles, labels, and programming is our beingness—our heart, soul, spirit, essence, and consciousness.
When our human abilities work in partnership with this deeper wisdom, we begin to see our meaningful purpose more clearly. Our heart reveals what matters. Our soul recognizes the truth. Our spirit moves us into action. Then the mind can find the knowledge we need, when we need it.
People do not only hear what we say; they feel who we are. They feel whether our heart is present. They feel our sincerity, passion, love, and intention.
If your heart is not in it, do not do it—because people will feel the difference.
Self-Love Is Not Ego
Self-love is not self-importance. It is the importance of self.
It is learning to value who we are from the inside out. It is no longer abandoning ourselves to gain approval, please others, or fit someone else’s expectations. When we love ourselves truthfully, what we offer the world can come from a more loving and genuine place.
This also means looking at past choices with accountability but without self-hatred. If we made a mistake, we can own it, repair what we can, ask forgiveness where appropriate, learn from it, and choose differently.
Now that we know better, we can do better.
We do not need to beat up the person we once were. That person was acting with the awareness, pain, fear, or information available at the time. Growth asks us to remember the lesson without continuing the punishment.
We can gently tell an old belief or protective pattern:
Thank you for trying to protect me. I no longer need you. With love and peace, I release you.
And when our inner child appears, we can say:
You are safe. You are loved. Come with me. We will grow and explore together, and I will not leave you behind.
Forgiveness Frees Us
Forgiveness does not condone a hurtful action. It releases us from remaining chained to it.
Hurt people often hurt people because pain is the only language they have learned. Understanding that can bring compassion, but compassion does not require us to surrender our boundaries. We can forgive someone, protect ourselves, and send them on their way.
We cannot force another person to heal. Free will matters. Change begins when someone is willing to look honestly at their behaviour, release what is harmful, and choose another path. Our energy is best used helping those who are ready to say, “Show me a better way.”
“I Invite You Up, but I Am Not Coming Down”
I have been a people pleaser. I have been defensive. I have sabotaged myself before anyone else could. I have known struggle, abuse, despair, chronic pain, asthma, and more than 30 years of fibromyalgia. I have also been told that I would never amount to anything.
Those experiences are not my identity. They prepared me to understand the pain in others and to bring forward stories, wisdom, skills, and tools that can illuminate someone else’s journey.
I have learned that others may hurt my body, criticize my choices, or misunderstand my spirit, but they cannot take away the consciousness I have chosen to live from.
I now stand on a higher energetic plane. I invite others to rise, but I am not coming down to meet fear, hatred, or manipulation.
Finding Stillness in Your Own Way
Higher consciousness does not require us to escape being human. It asks us to bring our human self into alignment with our deeper truth.
For some, meditation creates that opening. For those of us with busy or neurodivergent minds, stillness may look different. It may come while walking in the forest, sitting by the water, listening to music, watching the trees, playing with a dog, or giving one part of the mind a gentle task while the rest of us relaxes and receives.
The method matters less than the feeling: shoulders soften, breath deepens, the chest opens, and everything within us becomes quieter. In that space, clarity can arrive.
Choose What You Will Feed
Are you feeding doubt and fear, or possibility and love? Are you ignoring the invitations to change, or are you willing to surrender and ask for your path forward?
Before we can fully become love and peace, we must lovingly address the turmoil within us. We release what no longer serves, replace old programming with kinder truths, and allow our heart, soul, and spirit to become our compass.
You do not need to become someone else. You need to stop bending yourself into the shape others demanded and return to the truth of who you already are.
You are what the world seeks. You are what you seek.
You are the love you seek.
You are the peace you seek.
May you find the courage to look at what no longer serves you, release it with love, and rise into the beautiful consciousness that has always lived within you.
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