Riding The Waves Of Change

Change keeps knocking. We decided to open the door and give it a seat at the table. This conversation unpacks a practical way to meet disruption without losing your center: a simple mantra—“it will change”—that helps you steady your mood, protect your creative focus, and keep your intuition clear even when life gets loud.

We start with a lived moment that many of us know too well: a perfect writing day shattered by a lawn mower. Instead of spiraling into frustration, we try a different move—witness, breathe, and repeat the mantra until the nervous system catches up with the truth of impermanence. From there, we widen the lens to explore how thoughts, words, and emotions carry a frequency that shapes our experience. You’ll hear how ADHD and a fiery temperament once fueled reactivity and how small, repeatable practices changed the arc of the day without denying real feelings.

Then we tackle righteousness—the seductive stance that assumes one fixed truth and builds walls around it. We look at how rigid certainty disconnects us from empathy, nuance, and our inner guidance, and why embracing impermanence restores flexibility and compassion. Along the way, we reflect on Buddhist perspectives, including a powerful image of monks walking across the United States as quiet, embodied disruption: no preaching, just presence that shifts the energy of the conversation. We weave in the Dalai Lama’s reminder that joy holds a thread of future pain and pain holds a thread of future joy, because everything moves.

By the end, you’ll have a handful of grounded tools: use “it will change” to pause reactivity, breathe to widen attention, and lean on creative rituals to let intuition speak in images, textures, and subtle cues. If you’re ready to protect your inner environment and turn down the volume on noise, join our February meetup—Embracing Radical Change—on Feb 15, 7:30–9:00 PM CT. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s feeling the churn, and leave a review to tell us your go-to mantra when life won’t s

Chapters

• 0:43 Opening And Core Insight
• 1:32 Change As Life’s Only Constant
• 2:18 Vibration Of Thoughts And Emotions
• 3:32 ADHD, Impulse, And Inner Fire
• 4:43 The Lawn Mower Practice
• 6:21 Training The Mind: It Will Change
• 7:31 Owning Your Energetic Environment
• 8:47 Righteousness And Fixed Thinking
• 10:31 Joy, Pain, And Impermanence
• 11:46 Spirituality Over Rigid Religion
• 12:14 Dalai Lama On Joy And Pain
• 12:45 Monks Walking As Living Disruption

Transcript

Change As Life’s Only Constant

Vibration Of Thoughts And Emotions

ADHD, Impulse, And Inner Fire

The Lawn Mower Practice

Training The Mind: It Will Change

Owning Your Energetic Environment

Righteousness And Fixed Thinking

Joy, Pain, And Impermanence

Spirituality Over Rigid Religion

Dalai Lama On Joy And Pain

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Hello, welcome to Intuitive Insights. I am your no BS Woo-woo coach, Megan McDonough. This week I am coming to you with a little insight and a reflection, hopefully, that you can use to access your intuition practically in your life. This is a reflection, a kind of a marinating and intuitive, um, well, literally, insight, that I've been uh mulling over. One of my favorite sayings. And when I learned this saying and um began incorporating it in my repertoire of sayings, uh, not only just verbally, but also, you know, cognitively understanding it. Change is the only constant in life. It changed everything for me. So I read this book, um, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting. It's a fabulous title. And the book talked about what I think is becoming more common in and uh our opening our awareness to in a more broad way, uh, is how thoughts, words, and emotions carry a frequency of vibration that literally shifts and sculpts the world around you. Also, there was a tool in it that helped me, a tool that helped me in particularly, because I was such, well, I am ADHD, and I was also so very like passionate about it, you know, I would get so angry, I would feel things so strongly, and you know, and it was like, ah, you know, I had to act on them. It was very impulsive. Um, and it was not, I was not proud of it. It was something that um got me into trouble a lot over time, but it also was like it connected me to my fire, right? We all have all the elements within us, and I really resonate. I had a lot of fire in me, right? If I before looking at my astrology chart, I could have told you I have a lot of fire in me. So um, when it came to change, I struggled. So there was this practice in this book, excuse me, your life is waiting, that was like if something is bothering you, like for instance, if you're sitting trying to write your epic novel, right? That's gonna be like, it's just brilliant. And it's a beautiful spring day, your window's open, the birds are chirping, everything is just the weather's perfect. It's a cool breeze every so often. Just, just right, right? Like lilacs, you're smelling that every every few moments. And then somebody gets out a leaf blower or a lawnmower, and it just ruins your vibe, right? You know? And then you're like, I can't concentrate. This guy's got a lawnmower, it's so loud, everything was so peaceful and perfect. And I was like, he's ruining my experience, right? Or at least this is where my ADHD brain used to go. And what I used to do was I would allow that to take me over and get angry and change my mood. And then it was just like, then it's like everything sucks, right? You know, then you get a telemarketing call and it's like, how dare they call me when I was doing something else? You know, shouldn't they know to not call me right now? Shouldn't that guy know to not be mowing his lawn when I'm writing my novel? Like, how dare he? Now, of course it sounds stupid, right? But that's kind of where your brain goes. And so what this book said to do was if there's something in your environment that you don't like and is not serving you, and it's driving you crazy. Example, guy mowing the lawn, just lean into it and wait because it's gonna change. So I tried it. And we'll use the same example of this lawnmower. And um, so we'll say that the lawnmower went in. And at first it was just like, oh God, this thing's driving me crazy. It's driving me crazy. And then I was like, okay, wait, the book said to just lean into it. And so I was just like, okay, it's gonna change. This is gonna change. It's gonna change. And so I would just repeat to myself, it's gonna change. And every time I would start to get frustrated and be like, it's not changing, remind myself, it's gonna change. And my mood didn't get affected. Matter of fact, it stayed positive, and eventually it would change, and I wouldn't be disrupted. I feel like that was a very key lesson for me in life, and not everybody always learns it. I have a friend who she would get angry at me if I texted her when she was busy. And I had to point out, how did I know you were busy? You knew you were busy. You could have not looked at your texts, right? Point being is that you're in control of your own environment, whether it's in response to what's happening outside of you or what's happening within you, and then it all changes. And the point of everything changing is what I wanted to talk about today. And the response to change. So it feels like, and there is, you could get plenty of um evidence to back this up, that there's a lot of change happening in the world right now. And I've been noticing myself and others, just in general, that this um energy of righteousness feels like it's the weed in the mix because the righteousness assumes something is fixed, meaning it will not change. And that's just not the nature of the world. Now, having said that, there are things in the world, actions, behaviors, words, energies that are universally connecting, universally kind and loving, and there are actions and energies that are universally separating or fear-based or hurtful or painful. And if you think of it, what brings you joy today may bring you pain tomorrow. So the thing itself changes. Example for that would be oh God, I don't even want to say this, but like, you know, thinking of my daughter's smile when she was a baby. And God forbid, if anything happened to her or myself, or our relationship became strained, that same memory may cause pain. But bringing this back to righteousness, righteousness builds walls. It is the thing that I find hard to resonate with religion on. That there is one way, there's one way. Right? That there's one way up the mountain. Righteousness says, I'm right, you're wrong. Righteousness says, I'm better than you. Righteousness says, we are different. Righteousness says, I don't care what you think, feel, or have to say. And it feels like we're kind of banging our heads around in a big, big old righteousness chamber right now, energetically in the world, period. And when you've got two energies being righteous at each other, who's right? Who's doing something different? Where's the energy that is disrupting the issue to bring more light? I said I don't ruh associate with much religion, and I don't, but uh spirituality, yes. Religion, um I find it harder a lot because of the righteousness, a lot because of the um the boundaries, the walls, the separation. Religion puts, most religions put on um their doctrines or what have you, right? Their behavi uh their ways of doing things. But there is one that if I had to associate with, and I like the spirituality of this, not necessarily the religion, the philosophy, the scientific philosophy of it, is Buddhism. And the one thing I see being different right now and not engaging in righteousness, are the monks who are walking the United States. They aren't walking because they're right. They aren't walking to preach that they're better or they're correct and you're not. They're walking to shift the energy, disrupt the conversation, take it back to connection, peace, and love by just doing the do. They are the embodiment of everything's gonna change. It's gonna change. It's gonna change. So as you deal with changes in your life, disruptions offered to you today, the mantra, it's gonna change. In his book, the uh the Dalai Lama said, there's always a little joy in pain, knowing that it will end, and a little pain in joy, knowing that it will end. Clearing your channel, your energetic channel, and not letting it get swayed in one direction or the other too much is a beautiful thing you can do for your intuition and staying connected to your internal spiritual GPS, your soul. So, mantra is gonna change. It will change. All right, that's it coming up. In Magnetize Your Light, we have monthly meetups. I focus on the connection between creativity and intuition. And as they are an access point or source to one of the other, or one is the active and one is the passive version of itself. My course, Trust Your Spiritual Baddess, works on your intuitive relationship, fostering it, learning how to connect with it, and helping you interpret it, helping empower you to really understand your personal GPS for your soul, for your body, for this life. Monthly meetups with Magnetize Your Light focus more on the creativity. We get together, we visualize, we meditate, we creatively explore, and then we share our insights after following our intuition through creativity. Coming based on the lunar energies of this month of February, on February 15th, I think this is Sunday, 7.30 to 9 central time, is our February meetup, which is embracing radical change. So if you would like to join us, you can find any of that information on my website, magnetize your light.com under events. And I hope to see you there, and I hope that you remember everything's gonna change. All right, keep magnetizing your light. Make some magic. See you in a couple weeks.