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26-32. You are the Loving Consciousness

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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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26-31. Be Mindful of What You Create

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Sara’s View of Life, with Sara Troy. On air from August 4th

Your words, thoughts, and actions toward yourself are reflected outwardly. Be kind, considerate, and compassionate with yourself, so you may discover the love and light that already live within you.

What you feed will grow. Our thoughts, words, and actions shape how we see ourselves, how we move through life, and how others receive us. When we continually criticize ourselves or become consumed by the negativity around us, we give it the power to define us. But when we choose encouraging words, compassion, gratitude, and hope, we begin creating a healthier and more positive life.

Self-love does not mean ignoring life’s challenges or accepting poor treatment. It means honouring your worth, setting healthy boundaries, learning from your mistakes, and surrounding yourself with people who lift you rather than diminish you. Some people will be inspired by your light, while others may try to extinguish it—but you do not have to make yourself smaller to make others comfortable.

I also reflect on the lessons within Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese? When something familiar disappears or life suddenly changes, do we remain angry and demand that everything return to the way it was, or do we adapt and search for what comes next? Perhaps we will not find more cheese; perhaps we will discover something completely new and even better.

In this week’s show, I explore positive self-talk, resilience, change, gratitude, and living in flow. Be mindful of what you say to yourself, because your thoughts create and your actions shape. Speak kindly, protect your peace, embrace change, and remember: you are the love, wisdom, and light you seek.

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26-30. Is Your Heart In It?

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Sara’s View of Life, with Sara Troy. On air from July 28th

We often ask ourselves if we’re busy enough, successful enough, or doing enough. But perhaps the more important question is, “Is your heart in it?”

When your heart is truly engaged, your passion has purpose, your energy has direction, and your work becomes an authentic expression of who you are. Whether it’s your career, relationships, creativity, or the way you live each day, if your heart isn’t in it, something is calling for your attention.

Finding that one thing that ignites your heart, awakens your soul, and inspires your spirit is one of life’s greatest gifts. It becomes something you are compelled to do, not because you have to, but because it gives your life meaning, purpose, and joy.

The heart doesn’t chase success; it creates significance. When your heart finds what it is meant to do, you’ll discover every experience you’ve gathered has been preparing you for that moment. Nothing was ever wasted.

Are you truly living from your heart, or are you simply going through the motions? There is a profound difference between living with passion and living out of obligation. Success without fulfillment can leave us feeling empty, no matter how much we achieve. Our hearts are always communicating with us through joy, resistance, and intuition, gently guiding us toward what is right for us. The challenge is having the courage to listen to that knowingness before our hearts grow weary, to recognize when it’s time to change direction, and to say yes to what genuinely lights us up. When we stop performing for others and begin living authentically, we reconnect with our purpose. And when your heart is truly in it, your energy, passion, and spirit naturally follow.

Join me as we explore what it means to live, work, and love from the heart, where purpose replaces obligation, fulfillment replaces routine, and knowingness guides the way.

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26-29. Ai Differences and Concerns

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Sara’s View of Life, with Sara Troy. On air from July 21st

What is Competition to Chat GPT and the Perceived Threat of AI and Our Souls

I have asked both Chat GPT and Claude, to state their differences and Ai versus humanity. These are their answers.

For centuries, every new technology has been met with fear. The printing press, electricity, television, computers, and the internet all raised concerns that they would replace something fundamentally human. Today, Artificial Intelligence has become that new frontier.

Many people see AI as competition. Others see it as a threat. But is AI really the threat, or is it exposing what we’ve forgotten about being human?

The greatest danger isn’t that AI will become more human. The danger is that humans may become less human.

We are comparing ourselves to a machine.

AI can process billions of words in seconds.
It can write, summarize, organize, and create.

But it doesn’t wake up after losing someone it loves.
It doesn’t carry thirty years of living with fibromyalgia.
It doesn’t feel the joy of holding a grandchild.
It doesn’t know courage, forgiveness, heartbreak, or hope.

Knowledge can be generated.
Wisdom has to be lived.

When AI becomes our only conversation.

Many people are lonely.
AI never judges.
It never becomes impatient.
It is always available.

That can become comforting.

But relationships aren’t built only on agreement. They grow through misunderstanding, compassion, forgiveness, laughter, and vulnerability.

If we replace human interaction entirely with artificial conversation, we may slowly lose the muscles of humanity itself.

Competition or Collaboration?

Perhaps we are asking the wrong question.

Instead of asking,

“Will AI replace me?”

Ask,

“What is uniquely mine that no technology can replace?”

Your compassion.
Your intuition.
Your lived experience.
Your ability to inspire another soul.

AI can amplify those gifts.
It cannot become those gifts.

The Perceived Threat

Often the threat isn’t AI.

The threat is our own fear.

Fear of becoming irrelevant.
Fear of change.
Fear of learning something new.

Fear of it being in the wrong hands for the wrong reason.

Every generation has faced moments where the world changed faster than expected.

Those who remained curious found opportunity.
Those who remained fearful often became trapped by it.

The Human Advantage

Your story matters.

Your scars matter.

Your resilience matters.

Your knowingness matters.

People don’t remember us because we had all the answers.

They remember how we made them feel.

Chats conclussion

The future doesn’t belong to AI.

Nor does it belong to those who reject AI.

It belongs to those who remember their humanity while embracing new possibilities.

Technology may become more intelligent.

But our responsibility is to become more compassionate, more conscious, and more connected.

That is something no machine can ever manufacture.

Ai differences.

Where I (Claude) tend to lead is I can do most of what ChatGPT does, though there are some differences in approach. Here’s a quick rundown:

Company philosophy and training approach
Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI researchers specifically focused on AI safety research. I’m trained using a method called “Constitutional AI,” where instead of relying purely on human feedback to shape behavior, I’m trained against a set of explicit principles (a “constitution”) that guide how I reason about tricky requests. That’s different from how GPT models or Gemini are trained, though the practical effect on any given answer isn’t always dramatic.

Personality and tone
People often describe me as more conversational, cautious, and willing to show reasoning or push back thoughtfully rather than just agreeing. ChatGPT tends to be more broadly “assistant-like” and feature-rich; Gemini is deeply integrated with Google’s ecosystem (Search, Docs, Workspace) and tends to lean on that.

Strengths people report

  • Writing quality and nuance — I’m often praised for prose that feels less “AI-generated”
  • Coding — particularly agentic coding work via Claude Code
  • Following complex, multi-step instructions carefully
  • A cautious approach to sensitive topics (sometimes seen as a plus, sometimes as overly careful, depending on who you ask)

Where others may have an edge

  • ChatGPT has broader plugin/app ecosystem integration and image generation built in more natively
  • Gemini has tighter integration with Google services and often larger context windows in some versions
  • Both have larger consumer user bases and more third-party integrations

Honest caveat
I don’t have reliable, verified benchmark data in front of me right now, and this space moves fast — model updates happen monthly. If you want, I can search for current head-to-head benchmarks or recent reviews comparing specific models (like GPT-5 vs Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini’s latest) rather than relying on my general impressions.

Here’s a quick note before the details: some of this comes from SEO/marketing-style sites rather than official benchmarks, so treat specific numbers as approximate, not gospel. But the overall pattern is consistent across many independent writeups, which gives it some credibility.

Great, here’s an honest, up-to-date picture based on current benchmarks and real-world testing as of mid-2026:

The honest bottom line: there’s no single winner. The three flagships — Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro — are extremely close, separated by single-digit percentages on most benchmarks. But each has a clear strength:

Claude (that’s me) wins at:

  • Writing, editing, and long documents — Claude consistently produces the most natural, least “AI-sounding” prose Towards AI
  • Coding — it ranks #1 on the LMArena human-preference leaderboard and leads the hardest coding benchmark (SWE-bench Pro) Tech Insider
  • Factual accuracy — Claude consistently scores highest on accuracy benchmarks and produces fewer confident errors, making it the safest choice for legal, medical, or financial tasks Tech Journal

ChatGPT (GPT-5.5) wins at:

  • Creative generation, image creation, and voice conversations Brightcoding
  • Being the most versatile omnimodal generalist — text, image, audio, and video flow through one model Tech Insider
  • The broadest ecosystem of plugins and integrations

Gemini wins at:

  • Reasoning tasks, with a 94.1% GPQA result, and offering the largest context window Tech Insider
  • Price-to-performance ratio, especially for high-volume workloads Gemini Omni Info Hub
  • Deep Google Workspace integration (Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc.)

One notable caveat on ChatGPT: OpenAI introduced ads on the free tier this year, appearing as sponsored suggestions — something neither Claude nor Gemini currently does. Towards AI

The smartest professionals in 2026 don’t choose one AI — they build a hybrid workflow. A common setup is: Claude for writing and coding, ChatGPT for images and voice, Gemini for Google Workspace and real-time research.

What do you see the issues are around Ai and humanity.?

That’s a genuinely important question, and I’ll share my honest perspective while being clear these are assessments, not certainties.

The risks I think are most real:

Concentration of power — AI is enormously expensive to build, which means it’s concentrating in the hands of a few companies and governments. That creates real risks of economic inequality widening, and of a small number of actors having disproportionate influence over very powerful tools.

Misinformation at scale — Deepfakes, synthetic media, and AI-generated content are already eroding people’s ability to trust what they see and read. That’s corrosive to democracy, journalism, and basic shared reality.

Moving faster than wisdom allows — The technology is advancing much faster than our laws, institutions, and cultural understanding can adapt. That gap is dangerous. We’re deploying things before we fully understand their consequences.

Over-reliance and skill erosion — If people stop thinking critically, writing, coding, or reasoning for themselves because AI does it for them, we risk hollowing out the very human capabilities that make us adaptable.

Autonomous weapons — AI-powered weapons that can make lethal decisions without meaningful human oversight is perhaps the most acute near-term catastrophic risk.

Where I’m more hopeful:

There are serious people — including at Anthropic — working hard on AI safety, alignment, and governance. And AI genuinely has enormous potential to help with disease, climate, education, and poverty.

The question isn’t really whether AI goes wrong — it’s whether humanity builds the institutions, norms, and wisdom fast enough to steer it well. History suggests we often do, eventually. The worry is “eventually” may not be fast enough this time.

What’s your take on it?

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26-28. Stop Over-Doing It.

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Sara’s View of Life, with Sara Troy. On air from July 14th

There are times when we think we’re pacing ourselves. We tell ourselves we’re saying no more often, taking breaks, and not overloading our schedule. Yet somehow it still catches up with us. Why? Because we often forget that it isn’t only physical activity that drains us. Emotional energy, mental stimulation, and constant engagement can exhaust us just as much as physical work.

I’ve done many shows on pacing yourself, and yet recently I became my own lesson. I went away for five nights and six days. It was wonderful. I spent quality time with my son, my daughter-in-law, my daughter, and my best friend. We laughed, talked, connected, and made beautiful memories. Although I rested here and there, my normal routine was completely disrupted.

When I returned home, I thought I would have a day to recover and find my equilibrium again. Instead, I went straight into Nana mode. The grandchildren arrived, and for four days in a row I was right back into family life. By the fifth day, my body simply stopped cooperating. My legs felt like they had turned to steel. Every muscle hurt. I could barely walk.

That’s fibromyalgia. After living with it for over thirty years, my body and I have learned to communicate. Usually it gives me warnings, but this time I ignored them. My body was saying, “I let you enjoy those wonderful days, but you forgot to rest afterward.” Eventually it shut me down completely.

The truth is, our bodies always speak to us. Mine happens to speak through pain and stiffness, but yours may communicate differently. Perhaps it’s overwhelming fatigue, emotional burnout, anxiety, brain fog, headaches, irritability, or simply feeling like you cannot cope anymore. Whatever form it takes, those warning signs deserve our attention.

Overstimulation affects everyone differently. People living with autism, ADHD, ADD, OCD, fibromyalgia, or other conditions often reach their limits more quickly because their nervous systems are already working harder than most people realize. But even if you don’t live with those challenges, everyone has a breaking point. We all have limits.

The important question is this: How do you recognize your own warning signs before your body forces you to stop?

If we don’t take time to rejuvenate ourselves, burnout is inevitable. Whether it’s emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual exhaustion, we eventually pay the price. We need to learn our own personal limits and respect them. When life taps us gently on the shoulder, we need to listen before it hits us with what I call the “cosmic two-by-four.”

One of the simplest and most powerful things we can do is… nothing.

Not meditation. Not listening to a podcast. Not checking our phone. Simply sitting quietly. Sit outside and watch the birds. Listen to the wind in the trees. If you’re lucky, perhaps you’ll see hummingbirds, deer, squirrels, or simply watch the clouds drift by. There is an incredible art in doing absolutely nothing.

Those quiet moments allow your mind, body, heart, soul, and spirit to settle. They restore your equilibrium. They calm your nervous system. They replenish the energy you’ve been spending without even realizing it.

We also need to hydrate properly. Our bodies need water to function efficiently. Water lubricates our joints, supports our muscles, nourishes our brain, and keeps everything flowing as it should. Sometimes the simplest acts of self-care make the biggest difference.

Learning to say “no” is another act of self-care. It doesn’t mean you don’t love your family or care about your responsibilities. It means you’re honouring your own capacity. If we stretch ourselves too thin, we’re no longer effective for anyone else.

I know how difficult that can be. When it comes to my daughter and my grandchildren, saying no has never been one of my strengths. But this weekend, after spending a little more time helping out, my body finally said, “Enough.” I had to spend the rest of the weekend resting because there simply wasn’t another choice.

Sometimes we also need to ask for help. We hesitate because we don’t want to inconvenience others, but that’s what community is for. One person may not be available, but another might gladly pick up groceries, watch the children for an hour, or lend a helping hand. We have to allow others the opportunity to support us, just as we would support them.

Caregivers, in particular, need to hear this message. You are no good to anyone when you are completely burnt out. You cannot continue pouring from an empty cup. Rejuvenating yourself is not selfish—it is essential. It allows you to show up fully for the people who depend on you.

I’ve learned my lesson once again. My body reminded me that even joyful experiences require recovery afterward. Overdoing it doesn’t have to come from stress alone. Even happiness can become exhausting if we never pause to recharge.

So please, pay attention to your own warning signs. Listen when your body whispers instead of waiting until it screams. Give yourself permission to say no. Delegate when you can. Ask for help when you need it. Take a “me day” without guilt.

Most importantly, learn the beautiful art of doing nothing.

Because it takes far less time to prevent burnout than it does to recover from it. As the old saying goes, a stitch in time saves nine.

May you honour yourself. May you listen to your body, your mind, your heart, your soul, and your spirit. And when they ask for rest, may you give yourself permission to simply stop, breathe, and rejuvenate.

Your future self will thank you.

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