This article accompanies Part Two of our podcast conversation.

In this episode, Larry, the Wisdom Keepers and I continue the exploration that opened last week, allowing the implications around pain, authority, and long-range decision-making to unfold more fully. The conversation is spacious, candid, and goes into places that are difficult to capture in writing alone.

You can listen to Part Two of the podcast here:

https://www.drivingtotherez.com/p/when-pain-wraps-your-timeline-second

Part Two: Authority, Scale, and Long-Range Perception

Once we stop treating discomfort as a verdict, a different question appears.

Not How do I feel right now?But What actually is my long term purpose if it’s not simply body comfort or pleasure?

This is where the conversation deepens.

Because the issue isn’t pain itself. Pain is information. The issue is what happens when pain is given authority over time.

How Timelines Quietly Collapse

Timelines rarely collapse through dramatic failure. More often, they compress through a series of reasonable, well-justified choices that prioritize immediate relief. And sometimes by making one huge life changing decision that concentrates on body comfort instead of a broader awareness and information around the results.

How do we know when we went for short term pleasure, over long term plans? The future becomes shorter. Options thin. Movement slows. Not because something went wrong, but because our future plans were never consulted.

This is what timeline distortion looks like in real life. Not chaos, but a contraction between what we say our long term plans are, and our choice for short term pleasure.

The Difference Between Sensitivity and Authority

Sensitivity is not the problem. Being a sensitive person is not the issue here. In fact, it’s a strength.

The problem arises when sensitivity is mistaken for leadership. When our discomfort and pain, or the pursuit of pleasure are allowed to lead us. Whether they are emotional, physical, mental or egoic relief or pleasure that is being sought.

The body reacts to change, uncertainty, and unfamiliarity as potential threats. That reaction is honest. It is also incomplete. The body cannot see context. It cannot weigh the consequences across years. It cannot perceive trajectory. That is something it depends on you, the soul, to do for it.

Yes, your Body depends on your Soul for context, for long term trajectory, for information and choice outside immediate comfort and pain.

When bodily signals are obeyed rather than interpreted, authority quietly shifts from awareness to reaction. Being reactive is something we want to overcome because reactions always choose now over later. And being reactive never served us.

Why Discomfort Often Appears at the Threshold

Discomfort frequently arises at moments of expansion, not because something is wrong, but because something is unfamiliar.

New environments, new roles, new responsibilities, and new ways of being all disrupt established patterns. The nervous system registers this disruption as stress, even when the direction itself is coherent.

If discomfort is treated as a stop sign instead of a signal, growth stalls.

Scale Changes Everything

Soul wisdom operates at scale.

It considers not only sensation, but timing. Not only emotion, but consequence. Not only relief, but direction. Scale allows discomfort to be placed inside a larger frame, where it can be understood without being automatically obeyed. I am not saying here to invalidate your pain and discomfort, but to see it in the larger context of your long term plans and desires.

When scale is restored, the future becomes clear and your plans take precedence.

I will stop now and let you get onto Part Two of the podcast. I hope you enjoy our continued conversation this week, it certainly has been very expansive to record.

Inelia

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Part 2 of the Podcast Conversation

If Part 1 is about realizing where you stand,Part 2 is about what it takes to stay there and not get pulled into the dark.

There are only two ways forward

even when the world pretends there’s more

I will stand inside the rising

I won’t fracture anymore

I won’t carry every choosing

I won’t wear another’s fear

I let the light within me rise

and become what’s real from here

This is where the song becomes less poetic and a real tool we can use— not in a “do this” way, but in a lived, embodied way. This conversation continues, giving you more information about what we see in 2026, and what this song embodies for all of us. And how to use it throughout 2026.

Because standing isn’t a moment.

It’s a relationship with yourself and the reality you are co-creating moment to moment. And how you affect the entire world.

Your Mantra. Say it out loud when you catch yourself indulging in negativity, victim aggressor, blame, fear, all the dark frequencies.

“The light within rises and takes form - through me”

(Disclaimer: no Fairies were harmed or killed in the making of this podcast! - listen to the end of the Wisdom Keeper hour to understand this joke - or not a joke… maybe it’s real?)

Podcast Part 2: Staying Steady Without Hardening

In Part 2, we talk about:

* Why doing without alignment to your true self becomes exhausting this year

* Why 2026 exposes reality in a non-linear fashion.

* What we do when we think we failed. Tools that take us out of negative indulgence instantly.

* What does Lemuria have to do with it?

This episode tends to land differently depending on when you listen to it — and I actually love that. It tells me the conversation is interacting with timing, not belief.

Wisdom Keeper Hour (Subscriber Conversation)

In the Wisdom Keeper Hour for Part 2, we move into territory I don’t usually speak about publicly:

* Longer-range implications that became visible during the December 31st live stream

* How the STAND frequency carries beyond what we think is “real”

* Why some paths close cleanly, while others simply fade away

* What holding your position actually requires — energetically, emotionally, relationally and practically

This isn’t instruction.It’s confirmation. Well, maybe it is instruction. Or even orders. Marching orders.

For many individuals, families and communities, this part puts words to decisions they’ve already made — or truths they’ve been quietly circling. It’s a remembrance, really. Remember. Stay in the light.

A Note From Me to You

STAND isn’t about defiance.It’s about presence and who you truly are and why you are here. It acknowledges the struggle we will be facing when we can’t influence those we love to choose the light. When they refuse to release power over others, victimhood, aggressor or savior energies. When they get sick and refuse to heal.

These two podcast episodes — and the Wisdom Keeper Hour conversations that follow them — are an invitation to listen beneath the lyrics, beneath the year ahead, and beneath the noise, to that place where choice becomes obvious and self-betrayal and fracturing becomes unnecessary. The place where your truth resides and remembrance is yours to hold.

2026 responds quickly.

Where you stand matters.

I KNOW you’ve already chosen. I see you.

Inelia

The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.

Introducing the Two-Part Podcast Conversation

I want to tell you why this song exists and why I gave it away to everyone who participated in the Looking At 2026 call last December.

I created this song with my heart, my clarity, allowing the light within rise and become truth — and I’m presenting it to you, one lightworker to another. Yes, YOU.

STAND didn’t come from a regular songwriting session. It came from a moment of stillness while I looked at what was coming ahead, as I prepared for the Looking at 2026 live stream on December 31st, 2025. The work for these annual calls begins weeks in advance, but there is a line in the sand, close to the end of the year, where everything becomes clear. That familiar moment where something lands so clearly that it doesn’t need embellishment. The line in the sand.

The song arrived as a compression of everything that showed itself for 2026. Not the details. Not the predictions. The core frequency underneath it all.The core energy that drives all lightworkers forward, to stand. To be.

That’s why I wanted to continue the conversation into a two-part podcast to STAND — because there was far more in it than could be said in the live stream or even in the lyrics themselves.

Yes, STAND is a song.

“I feel the ache of watching others

pull themselves apart to choose

but I was never meant to follow

every road that leads away from truth”

Why STAND is Different

If you’ve listened to the song and felt strangely steady afterward — even if nothing in your outer life changed — that’s not accidental.

STAND isn’t about pushing forward or digging in your heels. It’s about recognizing where you already are, who you already are, energetically, and refusing to fragment yourself to keep pace with a large population that’s accelerating into chaos and darkness.

During Looking at 2026, one thing became very clear to me:this isn’t a year that responds to effort — it responds to coherence. It responds to who we are and why we are here.

Standing is not passive.Standing is precise.

Your Mantra. Say it out loud when you catch yourself indulging in negativity, victim aggressor, blame, fear, all the dark frequencies.

“The light within rises and takes form through me”

Podcast Part 1: Recognizing the Stand

In Part 1 of the podcast, I talk through:

* How the song STAND reflects the main pivot that showed up when we looked at 2026

* How to remain steady without becoming rigid or defensive

* What “standing” actually means energetically — beyond the metaphor

* How music can sometimes say the truth before language catches up

This episode is meant to help you notice yourself — not fix anything, not decide anything — just notice where you’re already standing, even if you haven’t named it yet.

Wisdom Keeper Hour (Subscriber Conversation)

For those of you who join us in the Wisdom Keeper Hour, the conversation goes deeper and quieter.

We explore:

* The subtler meanings and energies embedded in the song

* What sat beneath the surface of the public-facing 2026 fronts

* Why is it time for you to take a stand?

* How Larry and the panelists are using this new information and the changes that have already become apparent in their personal lives.

This part isn’t about learning something new.It’s about remembering what you already know.

If you missed the live call, you can buy it here and listen to the music. If you were present, the music file and lyrics are already in your email inbox.

Inelia

The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.

On Dec 31st 2025, we had our traditional live call: “Looking at 2026”.

Thank you for making this happen! We broke our previous record for a live audience with a total of 186 people on the call. These are participants who chose to be with us on New Year’s Eve! Yay!

Note: This is a re-run of Episode 225

Every December, I send a newsletter on how to deal with your family and friends during the holiday season. I also send a link to the video I made several years ago, to help you with it. This year, we will also have a podcast about it.

Make sure to listen to the podcast as well as the second hour with our panelists to get the best experience while you also support our work.

The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.

An Invitation to Listen

This episode continues the conversation that unfolded during the live Q&A for The Source Code of Manifestation.

Together, we explore the questions that arose in real time as the material landed, revealing how understanding deepens once the surface layers give way.

Larry joins the discussion without having taken the class, but after spending time with the music chant on its own. His experience offers a revealing contrast: what shifts when sound engages awareness before explanation.

Alongside him, panelists who completed the class share their moments of clarity, the internal recalibrations they noticed, and the new questions that emerged as the work integrated.

We also introduce the idea of the Inheritance of the Light Jedis. Not as mythology, but as recognition. A capacity that becomes accessible with clarity, responsibility, and expanded awareness.

This episode isn’t a recap. It’s the Q&A carried forward.

If you’re curious how manifestation looks when it moves beyond theory and into lived experience, this conversation opens the door.

Listen in →

Hear the questions that emerged during the Source Code of Manifestation Q&A.

The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.