The Great Awakening

Overpopulation

Ten years ago – it feels like yesterday – I wrote that the population of our planet, hovering around 6.9bn, was poised to reach a milestone 7bn. Since then, our numbers have swelled by another billion! That’s a 15% increase in what is effectively just the blink of an eye in Earth’s history!

Burgeoning debt

I wrote that the US national debt had reached unprecedented levels, at $15tn (that’s trillion if you weren’t sure!) Today that figure stands at $27tn, a massive 80% increase. How can any ordinary human being like you or me get their heads around such a staggering number?

A climate crisis

I shared some statistics about our warming climate. CO2 (carbon dioxide – the ‘greenhouse gas’) levels reached an all time high of 392 ppm (parts per million) in 2011. That level has climbed to 418ppm today. The increase may seem modest at 6.6% but it has to be put in context. Levels of CO2 remained almost unchanged at around 280ppm in the 10,000 years prior to 1950.

In the past ten years our planet has lost over 160 plant and animal species. Deforestation of the planet’s lungs, our tropical forests, has continued apace at some 12m hectares, or 30m acres, per year.

The politics of confrontation

We are also witnessing rising instability on the geopolitical front.

New superpower, China, is increasingly flexing its muscle in the South China Sea and ratcheting up hostility towards Taiwan, while the powerful US navy looks to stare it down. Russia has committed to huge military build ups on the Ukranian border and in the Arctic. Iran and Israel trade threats and insults relating to the former’s nuclear ambitions. Renegade nation, North Korea, is looking increasingly unpredictable and hostile as its nuclear arsenal balloons in size and scope.

A biological assault

No reflection on the past decade is complete without reference to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The disease has taken many lives but, without diminishing this fact, many, many more have been wrecked by the fear, uncertainty and authoritarian lockdowns and overreactions that we are all too aware of. Talk of the introduction of mandatory vaccine passports, comforting for some, seems positively Orwellian to others.

Inspiration in scary times

If you’re still with me, you’ll be forgiven for feeling somewhat depressed by all of this. On the face of it, it seems we are living in very scary times indeed.

But, as you know, the underlying theme of these blogs is to inspire you.

The inspiration in this post derives from the knowledge that we humans are resourceful, resilient and adaptable. History has shown that difficult times bring out the best in us. And I firmly believe that the instability that we are currently experiencing is the trigger for a Great Awakening of humankind.

Expanded awareness and consciousness

We are moving into an era of expanded awareness and consciousness, where people are beginning to question everything about life on Earth. Why have we allowed the mess that I have described to come about? Why do so many of us seem shut off from the natural abundance that is our birthright? Why do so few have so much and so many have so little?

Liberating ourselves from the trap

Greedy powers that seek to control us by breeding fear, stifling our right to freedom of thought and speech and encouraging subservience are in for a rude awakening of their own. People all over are slowly coming to terms with their own inner power and ability to create new, more exciting, more prosperous realities.

As people grow in self awareness, they become acutely aware of the trap that we humans have fallen into – placing blind faith in others, institutions and governments to solve our problems and provide for our needs, instead of searching within for the answers.

Life coaching at the forefront

I believe that life coaching is a tool that is at the forefront of humanity’s Great Awakening. That may sound a little melodramatic but I really believe it.

Life coaching is solution – not problem – based. It encourages asking of the question: “What is possible here?” rather than “Why is this happening (to me)?” It helps us to harness and trust our inner beings and intuitions. It leads us to our purpose and sets us on a path to fulfilment and happiness. It teaches us personal responsibility. It liberates us from a dependency on others and the need to control others.

A key role to play

Those of us who are life coaches have a key role to play in helping accelerate the Great Awakening so that we can ensure that our children move towards a future in which fear, distrust and lack give way to personal freedom, self confidence, growth and abundance.

Join the movement!

If you have a passion for people and want to become part of the life coaching movement at the heart of the Great Awakening, then why not join us at New Insights.

It might just be the best decision of your life!