Life is a mirror of our state of being

What happens around us always seems to mirror what’s happening within us.

We can have the house, the car, the title, the money, and still feel like it’s all hollow—like none of it has really “landed” in our soul. Or we can have next to nothing and still feel like the richest person in the world, simply because we’re alive to experience it.

It’s how we’re wired.

The energy we carry—moment to moment—becomes the lens we see the world through. If we’re anxious, constantly fretting over the future or simmering about the past, we’ll find more and more reasons to feel that way. It’s as if life serves up a matching frequency, reinforcing our worst fears and frustrations.

But when we’re at ease, when we’re relaxed, when we’re present—open, smiling, humming a tune under our breath—the same world looks and feels completely different.

Opportunities appear.

Conversations flow.

People gravitate toward us, not because we’re trying to be magnetic, but because we’re embodying the kind of energy they want to be around.

Life operates on resonance. The energy we’re putting out is the energy we’ll meet. We can fight it, resent it, or ignore it, but it’s still there, shaping everything from our relationships to our career to our health.

And the most confronting truth of all? Most of it is out of our control.

But that’s where the real freedom lies. Because while we can’t control life, we can control ourselves—our state of being, our presence, the energy we carry into each moment.

The world outside of us will keep spinning, but the world within us? That’s our domain. That’s the one place we can make a real difference.

So, for whatever it’s worth: Stop trying to steer the storm. Start steering the ship. Be cool. Chill out. Sing in the kitchen. Smile at strangers. Sit quietly and notice how good it feels just to breathe.

Life is messy, unpredictable, and so much bigger than any one of us. But when we learn to meet it with ease instead of tension, with openness instead of resistance, something magical happens. Life starts to mirror that ease back to us.

It’s not a hack. It’s not instant. But it’s real. And it’s worth it. Because the only remote control we’ll ever have is the one we use to guide ourselves.

And when we figure that out? That’s freedom.

Cheers for now,
Cam