Radical Acceptance Activism

What we resist, persists. What we hate, we give our energy to. The revolution isn't in the streets—it's in our hearts.

The world feels heavy right now. Every day brings news that makes our hearts ache; violence, injustice, systems that seem broken beyond repair. If you're reading this, you probably feel it too: that urgent pull to do something, to fight back, to resist what feels wrong. I understand that feeling intimately.

For a decade I threw myself into environmental activism with everything I had. I operated from a place of not accepting what was happening to our planet and fighting against the systems I believed were destroying it. I was fueled by anger and fear, convinced that if I didn't show up to battle these forces, nothing would change, that the “bad guys” would win.

I was operating from a place of believing that things were fundamentally not okay—that the world was broken and it was my job to fix it through sheer force of will and righteous anger. I was praised for "saving the earth".

Experience embodied activism through this powerful Zhineng Qigong Science practice.

The Exhausting Truth About Resistance

Here's what I learned from this approach: I was successful in changing some policies and creating shifts in the physical realm, but no hearts were opening. There was no internal healing being done; not in the people I was fighting against, not in the systems I was trying to change, and certainly not in myself.

Of course, I completely burned out.

The framework our world operates from pressures us to resist, to not accept, to live in fear, and to believe that things are fundamentally wrong and require our constant vigilance to fix. What I discovered through studying Zhineng Qigong Science with Teacher Wei Qifeng and my own experience integrating the practice, is that this approach is actually contrary to how energy works in the universe.

What we resist, persists. What we hate, we give our energy to.

From Resistance to Acceptance

Mingjue is a word that means pure awareness—a state of unconditional love that comes from deep observation without judgment. What I learned the hard way is that true activism isn't about fighting against what we don't want; it's about activating unconditional acceptance through unconditional (mingjue) love, and activating peace, joy and gratitude deep within ourselves.

This isn't passive. This is the most radical activism there is.

When we do this inner work, we become anchors of light; stable points that activate these same qualities in others simply through our presence. We stop feeding the energies of hatred and fear that created the problems we're trying to solve.

In the study of Consciousness Science, we talk of the concept of “Haola”, which means "all is well and getting better". It is essential that we can see the world through the lens of “no problem", that everything in this moment is exactly as it should be, regardless of any messiness or pain. When we tune into haola, we come into a deep trust, knowing that in the grand scheme of things, everything is perfect right now.

I know how this sounds hard to believe when you're watching the news, when you're seeing suffering, when your heart is breaking for the world. It sounds impossible, maybe even irresponsible...but it is the only way out.

This isn't about denying reality or becoming complacent. It's about accessing a deeper truth that allows us to respond from love instead of react from fear.

Laying Down Our Weapons

We all carry weapons—not physical ones, but internal ones stored in our cells, in our DNA, in the very fabric of our being. These are the weapons of judgment, resistance, fear, and hatred that we've inherited and accumulated over lifetimes. They radiate out from us and create our physical reality.

When we have war in our hearts, the world becomes made of war. When we have peace in our hearts, we contribute to a world made of peace.

Musical Interlude: When There Is Peace: Travis Knapp

The work of radical activism is the work of laying down these internal weapons. It's expanding our capacity to stay in love and peace unconditionally, even when witnessing what appears to be the darkest aspects of humanity.

This doesn't mean we don't take action in the world, but allowing the action we take to come from a completely different place; from love, from trust, from a deep knowing that we are part of something much larger than ourselves.

The Courage to Love

I spent years believing that if I wasn't angry, if I wasn't fighting and I wasn't caring enough. What I discovered is that it takes far more courage to love than it does to fight.

It takes courage to stay open when everything around you is screaming to close down. It takes courage to trust when the world seems chaotic. It takes courage to believe in the universal truth that “all is well and getting better” when the evidence seems to point in the opposite direction.

But when we develop this capacity, something magical happens. We become living examples of what's possible. We become the change we want to see, not through force, but through embodiment.

The Real Revolution

The revolution isn't in the streets—it's in our hearts. It's in our willingness to release the old patterns of fear and resistance that have been passed down through generations. It's in our capacity to serve not through being martyrs and sacrifice, but through joy, through love, through beauty, through pleasure, through connection.

When we show up in the world from this place, things heal naturally. Not because we forced them to, but because we created the energetic conditions for healing to occur.

This is the activism our world needs now, not more fighting, not more resistance, and certainly not more fear. We've had enough war. The change starts within ourselves, in our willingness to lay down our weapons, to expand our capacity for unconditional love, and to trust that when we do this work, we become part of the solution in ways we can't even imagine.

The world doesn't need us to fix it. It needs us to remember who we really are; beings of love, peace, and joy, and to radiate that truth so completely that it becomes contagious.

That is radical activism.

------

Megan Kaun teaches “consciousness engineering”; how to work with the finest levels of energy for enhanced health, vitality, and freedom. Megan is a certified Zhineng Qigong Science teacher and healer by Master Wei Qifeng, a direct disciple of Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming. She is also certified in several modalities of somatic dream work. Learn more about Megan’s work at www.IntoTheHumm.com