When the Ground Shakes

There are times over our lifetime when the world around us feels like it’s fracturing. Systems fail, people panic, and the dramatisation of it all tests our nervous system.

‘Crisis’- that’s the word we use.

But what if that word itself is part of the misunderstanding?

Crisis isn’t always destruction.
Sometimes it’s revelation.

It forces through everything that no longer contributes to growth, personally and collectively.

It destroys the stories that kept us safe, and with them, the illusion of control.

Control feels safe. Predictable.

But it’s also the first thing to break when life tilts sideways.

We try to control the weather instead of feeling the rain.

But presence is different. It doesn’t try to change the moment, it meets it.

It says, I don’t need to know what happens next to know I can handle it.

That’s the moment the nervous system feels calmer.

The body remembers it’s not in charge of the world, only how it responds to it.

Everything from here changes.

You stop living from the mind that needs to make sense of everything, and start listening from the space that already does.

It’s not the absence of chaos that brings peace. It’s learning how to stay grounded while the chaos passes through you.

Sometimes that means letting go of what never really belonged to you: old versions of yourself, old expectations, old ways of surviving.

Other times, it’s quieter than that. It’s remembering what’s always been there:
The stillness beneath the noise, the quiet certainty that nothing is out of place,even when everything looks like it is.

And maybe that’s the real meaning of peace.

Not fixing what’s broken, but trusting what’s unfolding.

~ Kaz ✨