This one felt painfully timely. I'm struggling through a bunch of challenges in a team, and I can feel myself responding from defaults, and also leaning on the story of conditioning and social context. And that story is true. Many of us are operating from programming at such subconscious layers that we can't access it. Or tweak it easily.
And yet. There is a need to push beyond this. To move to a new level. To understand that even if things are deeply predetermined, at an atomic, cellular, or universal level, the act of creating agency changes our relationship to the world, and to how we feel about our presence.
On Dec 1, 2025 Shivani wrote :