“The little you can do is what you should do,” Anna Kai.  This was in reference to when things happen out of our control.  We’ve all had that caged rat feeling where we have so much emotion that we don’t know how to channel it, when there really isn’t anything we can do and things feel out of our control.  As counterintuitive as it is, all we can do is what we can do.  Fine, that may seem like a trite tautology but it is the truth.  We can’t force ourselves to be somewhere we are not and we can’t force ourselves to operate beyond our capacity or what resources allow.  We can’t control people and we can’t predict what will happen.  And wasting our energy trying to change what we can’t change only exacerbates the caged feeling.  All we can do is what we can do—and that is all we need to do.  If we were meant to do anything else, resources would appear and we would be able to do that. As with most of our topics, this deals with mindset and understanding that even if we are unable to control the situation, we can control how we react to it and what we do next. 

The way we are trained and the way the world works today often confuses us about our role, our abilities, and what we can/should/want/need to do.  We so often feel like we have to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, like if we allow ourselves to have fun when we “Should” be working that the world will fall apart or that we will have to somehow pay for that fun at some other point.  The truth is when we are having fun we are much more receptive to new ideas and possibilities.  The world will not fall apart because you learned to laugh at something difficult or painful.  The world will not collapse if you decide to take a day off your routine and do something that truly interests you.  The world needs us to do that more often so we can better handle situations we feel are out of our control.  The world feeds on our joy and love and that only happens when we are in a state of love and joy.  That is something we CAN do all the time, we don’t need permission.

The other side of this game is to remember that there is always a purpose someone has to make us feel a certain way and we are the ones who allow that feeling to take place.  Don’t let anyone derail our plans or make us feel incapable of something.  Don’t let anyone convince us of what we cannot do.  Instead, take stock of the situation and boldly move forward, deciding on the step to take and understanding that we can handle anything.  All the world asks is that we do our part.  The world responds to frequency and we need to be comfortable in who we are, we need to believe in ourselves, we need to trust our energy and our work so we can move the needle on creating positive change, on spreading love/light/energy.  We don’t need to move the mountain in order to effect change—sometimes all we have to do is take the first step and that’s enough to inspire the masses to come with us.  It’s not about leading, it’s about understanding who we are.  So when we have the feeling and are called to do something, trust it is the right time, it is the right feeling, and trust that we can trust it—it is ours to do what we must, and if we are given the ability to do, then we must do what we are called.