I heard years ago a spirituality teacher say a wise yogi, guru, or enlightened person (though I hesitate to use the word) sitting and meditating, is helping the entire planet. That their breath will reach thousands, millions of people.
I was conversing with a friend just now and that quote came to mind and also a deeper understanding of how that happens.
We breathe in and we breathe out air, and while that air is within us we are interacting with it, intermingling with it on an energetic level. The air is immersed in our unique energy frequency and influenced by us as we are influenced by it in return.
So a person who is able to sit in unconditional love, wisdom, non-judgement, compassion, kindness, grace, and hold those frequencies is imbuing the air that he or she inhales with those frequencies and then exhaling that air to mingle with other air particles, and then be taken in by other beings, other people, on our planet.
So they aren’t “just sitting there”. They are contributing mightily to our collective consciousness, our collective energetic state.
The idea we have of being separate, individual creatures is a complete illusion. Just by breathing we are interacting with one another.