Creating something new is absolutely not a passive process. It is hyper-active. It’s not even about creativity here, but about the fact that we are created in the image and likeness of God, and we have all the same abilities.
And these are not empty words.
At this moment in time, the Earth vibrationally corresponds to a space where creation is possible.
Returning your power and inner authority is an active process. And the art of micro-steps plays a huge role here.
Read on to find out what these micro-steps are.
The Value of Micro-Steps
Passivity and waiting lead to even more waiting. You can wait a long time for the laws to change, for world peace to happen on its own.
But authority over your daily life returns through consistent micro-steps.
When we were recording the new version of the “Dance with the Shadow” course, I saw the effectiveness of the simplest actions, the simplest practices, when you repeatedly shift your focus from the outside to the inside of yourself.
When you take a tiny action, for example, saying “thank you,” putting a thing in its place, you focus on that and do it for many days in a row. It doesn’t necessarily have to be practices. The point here is precisely in consistent micro-steps.
You get in the elevator, you greet your neighbor. Or you leave the house, you greet everyone.
We had an amazing story during the “Acceptance Workshop” course. A cyclist or scooter rider cuts you off. And instead of getting upset, the person decided they would wish them all a good day. Everyone who messes up, everyone who crosses their path, they would wish them a good day. Within a week, the situation changed, and the world became completely different.
I used to be skeptical about such micro-steps. Now we will be implementing them both in courses and as separate paid marathons.
We also have trackers where students mark the actions they’ve taken: a gratitude tracker, an acceptance tracker, a love capacity tracker. But that’s abstract. You can bring any task into your daily life.
If we are talking about light or love, I choose an action from love. What would that action of support, that action of light, be?
A creator cannot be passive. An idea comes, and it needs to be physically manifested. And physical manifestation is not always simple; it’s often labor-intensive, tied to many actions.
The task is to see how you influence reality through these smallest actions. You just need to choose them wisely.
How to See the Good in Your Life. Turning the Focus Inward
In our basic courses, we introduced weekly practices: praise yourself, pay attention to what good happened during the day. This isn’t exactly about positive thinking, but about turning your focus toward the good that exists in your life.
We have many mental distortions in our heads that we need to learn to track so that it becomes automatic. Otherwise, you won’t break them down, and you’ll continue to believe in them, in this black-and-white thinking.
This is a way out of virtuality into reality, into concrete numbers, into concrete things, and a large part of all this doesn’t hold up, it falls apart, it crumbles. It turns out that most of our thoughts are misconceptions, illusions, and assumptions.
Therefore, verification is needed. A thought appears, let’s verify it. And it gets integrated gradually. You stop trusting these constructs, these structures of the mind. But that’s one task.
The second task is focus turned inward on yourself.
There’s a trick here too. You don’t just say: “I choose myself, I put myself first.” Instead, by recalling your day and specific situations, you ask yourself questions: who did I choose here, in this situation? Oh, Aunt Masha? Oh, my boss? Oh, the child? And by the end of the day, when you sum things up, it suddenly turns out that you spent the whole day not choosing yourself.
It sounds nice: “This is how I live, I choose myself.” But the facts say otherwise. And you can find those facts if you do a review in the evening, asking yourself that question, and looking through its lens.
This is exactly where those micro-steps help, when you shift your focus of attention and keep doing it until it becomes integrated and until you see the result.
With physical exercises or certain habits, it’s probably easier because they aren’t virtual. But here, you subjectively begin to turn around.
When we implemented the week’s practices in the courses, many noticed that things worked out differently, their mood improved, and they started seeing many other things they hadn’t noticed before.
But again, you are the one taking these micro-steps now. There is no passivity, no waiting, because as soon as expectations appear, you are giving your creative power to someone else, you are living in someone else’s created reality, not creating your own.
As a creator, you internally initiate everything you want to change or improve in your life. But how can you initiate anything if you live in a state of lost focus? Without a clear understanding of your inner request.
See also: Turning inward as a process of reclaiming your power on a collective level
The Value of Micro-Steps. An Exercise Example
What else is valuable about micro-steps? When you’re faced with a big task, resistance arises from the need to do a bunch of actions, to accomplish a grand piece of work. And the mind freezes.
That’s how our participants in the “Dance with the Shadow” course couldn’t complete the “Me and Not Me” assignment.
I explained it with an example. There are two columns, the task is to sort into these two columns where “me” is and where “not me” is. So I have some coins and bottle caps, I need to sort them into two piles.
This one, which looks like a bottle cap, goes here; this one, which looks like a coin, goes here. The action is elementary. But because the mind pulls in a lot of constructs, this process turns into a complex task, because various parameters and requirements get added to it.
Just go back, read what’s written: “sort into two piles.” So you sort. But when you try to run a step ahead, that’s where the block comes from. Remember the micro-steps.
First, you sort into piles, and when you’ve sorted, you read what to do in step two: “observe yourself.” But if you try to look at the whole path from the second step, it doesn’t work.
Add Novelty to Your Micro-Steps
Many of you do daily practices that could also be considered these micro-steps.
But these are already habitual actions for you. And the point of micro-steps is to add something new, something you haven’t done or tried before. Work on it for a week, and once it’s integrated, add the next step and start implementing it.
Let’s say you tell yourself “I’m awesome” five times a day. But don’t just say it from the mind; find a reason that feels truly weighty and meaningful to you.
Find reasons to be proud of yourself today. For some, it might be pride in your country, or in the people you share this planet with.
It’s different for everyone, but the point of this new micro-action is to find something you see as an obstacle in yourself, something you need to overcome. What’s the point of telling yourself “I’m awesome” if you already think you’re awesome?
Every day or every week, add something new. Maybe you sent food to a shelter, donated clothes to a church, went to the doctor out of care for your health, started exercising, or began calling your mom more often.
And I recommend sharing this, because it’s not obvious to everyone that such simple things can work wonders.
This is the power of your own example—that you took the initiative and started doing something. Not so that everyone will follow you and do the same, but simply to show options. To show that this is also possible, because not everyone catches on.
See also: New Life. What It Means to Create Like a Free Artist
Paving New Paths
In this way, these micro-steps with adding something new help build a path. It’s simple: if you haven’t cut a path, or if it’s buried in snow and you haven’t cleared the blockage, you won’t be able to pass. That’s how it is for us right now—we are paving these new little paths.
The difficulty is that there won’t be any familiar landmarks, only an inner desire: do I want to go there or not?
And if I’m waiting for someone else to decide for me again, and I don’t even realize I’m waiting, what am I waiting for? I just run into some obstacle, some confusion, and I don’t go any further. But in essence, I’m playing the same old “waiter.” And this happens in many areas of life.
So initiate from within, so that it unfolds and manifests in reality through your prompting. It doesn’t necessarily have to be you who does it, but you are the initiator, you are the one who starts the process.
Paving new paths is key. How you do it—through micro-steps, through working through inner blocks—all these different options have no particular order or priority.
Whatever you encounter today, whatever catches your eye, that’s what you work with. But the main understanding is that you are keeping a clear focus, paving something new.
Hence a word of caution: don’t try to force something new that has suddenly unfolded into the old framework. That’s just wasted time.
And this won’t be about passivity, because if you need to rethink your entire schedule, your short-term and long-term plans, your upcoming expenses, that takes time. You need to review a fairly large amount of data to make any changes.
So no matter which angle you approach this topic from, there is no passivity anywhere. It’s a state of being that goes hand in hand with active doing, or at least with initiating.
You launch impulses, you generate them, you are their originator, you bring them forth, and then, with your prompting, how it unfolds is a slightly different story.
In any case, it’s about action within a state of being.
See also: Action Within a State of Being
What new things, what micro-steps do you plan to introduce into your life starting today?
This article is based on a broadcast for clients of the “Keys of Mastery” Training Center, Hot Topic, October 2024