Nick Seneca Jankel: Switch On
OMTIMES: What is the message of Switch On and what are you hoping to achieve with it?
Nick Seneca Jankel: You can break through anything – relationship issues, career impasse, repetitive conflict, self-sabotaging habits, business blockages and social issues – using your own unique neurobiology and the inherent spirituality contained within every creative cell in your mind and body. Nothing is too big to break through when we feel switched on – when we know we are connected to every other atoms and being in the universe. When we learn how to switch on to the micro problems we face, we access limitless love, truth and creativity. Then we can take on the bigger challenges too, and proactively get involved in community-change and world-change without getting stuck in shame, blame and complain. We don’t need to believe in anything supernatural or in a religious figure or ideology. We can find that connection through nature, stillness, love, compassion, gratitude and surrender to the inherent and innate wisdom within the universe. More and more science – whether quantum physics and complexity and chaos – is pointing to this innate interconnectivity of all things; which is the hallmark of every major wisdom tradition.
However, spiritual awakening isn’t enough. We also must learn how to literally rewire our neurons, our habitual beliefs, moods and actions, if we want to embed and embody our breakthrough in the reality of everyday life. Psychology and neuroscience are profoundly helpful in doing this.
Once we learn how to reconnect our heart and rewire our brain, we can remix anything that frustrates us, upsets us or worries us in our world – in our own lives and within the wider issues of the world. Spiritual awakening, psychological empowerment and positive community and social impact are all one movement, one path, one journey as long as we stay switched on.
The deal is, the sh!t will hit the fan for us all. Break ups, redundancies, the death of friends, illnesses, planetary devastation and our own death are all likely on our path. So the sooner we learn how to embrace these challenges; bring them inside us where we can exert some influence on them (we can’t change what we don’t own); and metabolize the problems into possibility – the more likely we are to be able to thrive not just despite our problems… but actually because of them. This is what so many wise souls have taught us for millennia: Connected, awakened, conscious living is not about being rich and famous; or being comfortable and liked. It is about being able to find meaning in the agony; and rise triumphant in the face of tragedy.
