Ripples in Real Time: Why Your Energy Matters

By Trish Briggs

Imagine this:

You’re attentively and safely driving on the interstate when a bright yellow car catches your eye in the rearview mirror. It’s weaving wildly between lanes, speeding far beyond the limit, and creating a wave of chaos behind it.

Your intuition kicks in. You decide to distance yourself from this potential accident-maker by slowing down and moving into the slower lane.

Moments later, the yellow car whips past you, continuing its erratic dance with traffic. You notice other drivers slamming on their brakes, swerving, reacting. The yellow car driver seems totally unaware - or unconcerned - with the disruption they’re causing.

You take a deep breath, only then realizing you’d been holding it, bracing for impact.

Then You See It.

A few miles down the road, the chaos catches up.

There it is: a four-car pileup off to the side of the highway. Emergency lights flash. The scene is sobering. You glance around for the yellow car… but it’s nowhere to be found. Still, in your gut, you know that driver likely caused the accident. The ripple they created led to death, injury, and devastation - all without their knowledge or responsibility.

Later, that same driver may watch the news and say,“Thank goodness I got through there before that happened.”

They’ll never know what their energy left behind.

This Is a Ripple in Real Time.

One person’s energy and behavior created a cascade of consequences - a ripple effect that touched many lives: those injured, those grieving, those stuck in traffic, those who witnessed it. And the kicker?

The one who caused it has no conscious awareness of the impact they made.

From Cause and Effect to Energy Awareness

As children, we learn about cause and effect: we touch something hot, we get burned. We hit someone, we get punished. The connection is direct and immediate.

As we grow older, those connections become more abstract. Consequences may take longer to appear or be less visible. But they’re still there.

And as our self-awareness and understanding of energy evolve, we start to see the full impact of what we do - and what we choose not to do. We stop seeing life through a narrow lens and begin noticing the 360° landscape around us. We start to see the ripples.

And once we see the ripples, we can no longer pretend they don’t exist.

We become accountable - not just for our actions, but for our energy, our intentions, and even our inaction.

So How Do You Prepare for This?

You get conscious.

You begin to monitor your:

• Energy

• Thoughts

• Intentions

• Beliefs

• Actions

• Non-actions

  
  

You no longer move through life on autopilot.

You pause.

You reflect.

You ask: What energy am I putting out? Who or what might I affect?

This isn’t about guilt or fear. It’s about awareness and growth.

It’s a process - just like learning cause and effect was in childhood. Over time, your awareness becomes instinctual.You live in greater harmony with yourself and with the world.

Your Energy Is Never Neutral.

Every thought, every action, every silence sends a ripple.

The question is—what kind of ripple do you want to leave behind?

Awareness is the first step to alignment. Have you ever felt someone’s ripple shift your day - for better or worse? We’d love to hear your story in the comments or messages.