Life has a way of tempting us to trade our potential for old emotional addictions. Stress, busyness, fatigue — they all whisper the same lie: this is just how it is.
But here’s the truth: the moment we get trapped in emotion, we lose sight of possibility. Why? Because emotions are records of the past. And if we keep trying to see our future through the lens of the past, all we will find is repetition.
We live in two states of mind: survival or creation.
Survival is stress. It is the fight-or-flight mode that mobilizes all our energy just to get by. Every species can handle short bursts of stress. The deer outruns the coyotes and then returns to grazing. But unlike the deer, we humans have the power — and the curse — of thought. We replay past pains. We forecast worst-case scenarios. We live in survival mode not for minutes, but for days, weeks, even years.
And here’s the cost: when energy is spent only on surviving, none remains for healing, growing, or creating. Chronic stress rewires the brain, breaks down the body, and even switches on disease-causing genes. Put simply: your thoughts can make you sick.
But this is also the doorway to your liberation. If thoughts can make you sick… they can also make you well.
The alchemy lies in rising above the emotion that chains you to the past. Step beyond it, and a new field of possibility opens. This is not denial — it is conscious creation. It is choosing to live from a state of vision, not a state of memory.
Every time you return to this empowered state, you are training your body and mind to align with the future you’ve chosen. This is how we move from survival to creation. This is how we alchemize thought into reality.
So I ask you: which state are you living in today? Survival, or creation?