When the Wind Doesn't Let Up (But You Do)

This weekend, I was on the back of a motorcycle.
The wind was relentless, with gusts that hit us hard enough that I had to brace myself just to stay on.

There’s a specific kind of vulnerability in riding as a passenger.
You’re not in control.
You’re not steering.
You’re not dictating the speed
You’re simply in it; with the road, the weather, and your own response.

When that first gust hit, I asked, what the hell are we doing out riding today? I resisted the wind. I tensed my shoulders. I held on tight when I am usually relaxed and in the moment. I tried to stabilize everything around me.

The wind didn’t let up. My shoulders tired. Then it hit me.

I softened into the moment and started repeating:
“I am one with the wind. I am calm.”

At some point, the wind didn’t feel as intense.
Maybe it actually shifted.
Or maybe… I did.

What I was doing, whether consciously or not, was aligning with the Hermetic Principle of Correspondence:
As within, so without. As without, so within.

The outside force didn’t disappear completely. But my relationship to it transformed.

And no, I’m not comparing my ride to the devastation some people face. But it did stir a deeper awareness in me. 

And it got me thinking about the world right now.

You don’t have to look very hard to witness....
Wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes.
Systems breaking down. Tempers flaring.
It’s easy to think, “The world is out of control.”

What if the wind, the fire, the shaking… isn’t just environmental, it’s energetic?
A reflection of humanity’s unrest. The deep division. The refusal to pause. The addiction to control.

I’m certainly not saying we cause every natural event.
But I am saying: we’re not separate from them.

That ride reminded me that trying to control what’s wild only creates more tension.

But when we soften, when we choose presence instead of panic,
something shifts.

That’s what Disrupting Gracefully means to me.
Not fighting every gust, not bracing through every change,
but learning to move with the moment instead of against it.

A few ways I’m practicing that:

• Breathing before reacting. Simple, but often forgotten
• Becoming aware of where I’m holding on tight, both physically and emotionally.
• Asking: What’s mine to respond to, and what’s just weather passing through?
• Trusting that not being in control doesn’t mean I’m out of alignment.

The wind might not have changed that day.
Or maybe it did.

But either way, something became still in me. And sometimes, that’s the only shift we need.

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