Is this Thought Mine or Was it Fed to Me?

We’re living through a slow erosion of memory, focus, and identity. What’s happening to your thoughts, your beliefs, and your attention isn’t accidental. It’s engineered. - Chase Hughes

​Does something feel off? Have you been wondering why feelings of anxiety, anger or fear are coming up more often than you'd expect?

If you do, you're not imagining it.

That can happen when the background noise of our world becomes louder than our own inner voice. Scary or provocative headlines, algorithms designed with you in mind, and inherited beliefs can have an impact without your even realizing it's happening.

On some level, you're recognizing that your thoughts are not completely your own. You're being led to the water, but it's poisoned with fear, scarcity and distraction.

The goal is to quiet your inner voice and then replace it with thoughts, feeling and reactions that make you easier to control.

This post continues the conversation from last week's post, Don't Be Manipulated, and it is inspired by three videos, this one, this one and this one.
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They rewired what you believe and now, use digital conditioning to run your nervous system. - Chase Hughes

​I didn’t plan to write about this again so soon, but the more I learn, the more I notice how it shows up inside me, with tension in my chest, and sudden spikes of anger or despair that don’t match what’s actually happening in my day.

That’s when I realized the programming isn’t only out there in headlines and algorithms; it’s now in here, despite my best efforts, showing up in my own thoughts and nervous system (just like Chase Hughes said!!!).

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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My Fire Moment

When I learned how long fear has been used as a steering wheel, I wanted to burn the whole illusion down.

There was a part of me that wanted to be an angry god, with both fire and flood at my disposal!

But underneath the fury and outrage was heartbreak: how much of my own life had I lived inside someone else’s story?

In that moment, I wasn't sure how to manage those intense feelings. But the ritual that follows amazed me because it worked so quickly and so well.

The Grounding Ritual

​I placed my feet flat on the floor and looked at the palm of my hand as if it was a mirror and said, “this energy does not belong to me.” Then I turned my hand toward the ground.

And I didn't expect to feel anything because I was on fire (LOL) but I immediately felt the energy draining out of me.

Then I asked the earth to transmute the fire into light. (hence that Canva AI photo above: the prompt was the old world collapsing into light)

I felt so much calmer after that (night and day), and that's when I decided to create that picture.

Want to try this ritual yourself?

Then write in your journal: “If I had the power of flood and fire, what illusion would I burn away?”

My answer is that I would burn away the one that convinced me that I am not powerful. If I fully believe that I am limitless, and I choose love over fear, then I can declare my own safety and love will make it true.

How Fire Becomes Alchemy

The goal isn’t to suppress anger or sacred outrage.

It’s to let it, and any other painful feelings, move through us, and then be released to become light again.

And feeling that anger isn’t feeding the powers that be - visible or invisible. It's staying in it or getting lost in it that does that, because we lose ourselves, too, for a bit.

What to do instead? Practice alchemy...

(1) Acknowledge and accept what you're feeling
(2) Let yourself feel it all
(3) Use a ritual like the hand-to-earth one to ground yourself and transmute the feelings
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The moment you hand over your attention, you also hand over the keys to your reality.
​-Life Lessons 

The Battle for Your Imagination

Whoever owns your attention owns your creative force.

But you can rewrite your own story and reclaim your attention and imagination by focusing on love, safety, beauty, or whatever matters most to you.

What they know, that we are still figuring out is that if you can imagine it, you will create it in your life. Because imagination is how we rebuild the world from the inside out.

Try these journaling prompts...

Is this thought mine or was it fed to me?
What story would I live if I wrote it myself?
How can my imagination make the world safer right now?

That last one, am I right? It's everything!

Bet they know that, too, hence the goal of creating fear and despair and trauma (put them in trauma is strategy found in Project 2025).

​The next time you're feeling outraged, turn your hand toward the earth. Let the fire drain.

Then imagine a better world. And start living like it’s already here.

And remember that every time you choose love over fear, the old world collapses a little further into light.

​In your comment, I'd love it if you responded to one of the prompts.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine
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