We get distracted.
By the outside world.
By the stress of life.
We drift away from ourselves.
Lose touch with our needs, and who we are at the deepest level.
If this happens for long enough:
Our life stops being our own
We live on autopilot
We forget what we want
If we don’t reconnect to ourselves and listen to our inner wisdom, we will:
Be lost in the world
Live in regret
Live in disconnection
But if we stop drifting, get still, and reconnect to our deepest selves, we will live a life full of:
Meaning
Guidance
Peace
Joy
Connection
We will have genuine relationships with the right people and walk a path that feeds our soul.
Unfortunately, most people approach this wrong. They try to force their way into a meaningful life, only to realize that nothing worth knowing can be bullied or grasped at.
We can’t remember ourselves with violence.
Instead, realize that most of remembering isn’t straining to know;
but subtly allowing what we need to arrive to us.
The good news is there is a way to reconnect with who we are—to attune our ears to a grander rhythm.
Pick Up the Moment
I remember sitting on my bedroom floor with piles of books, feverishly studying. I was looking for answers. I pushed and pushed only to feel more frantic in my search.
It wasn’t until I stopped, put down the books, and went into the shallow nape of clouds that I began to receive answers by stopping my questioning.
Our obsession with asking questions makes it hard to be present for the answers.
Answers sit as delicate myths, eluding our grasping, hiding in angelic corners, waiting for us to set down the tools and pick up the moment.
1. Allowing is a way of knowing by being.
If we stop doing and reacting long enough, we can start being. Answers arrive in this resting state, without any effort. The answers from this place are wise, deep, and, in my experience, always right.
But first, we must stop perpetually racing and start crossing finish lines in the living moment.
2. Wisdom speaks in silence.
It’s our part to slow down and be quiet to hear it. We are not the maddening noise that swirls in our minds or the feverish emotions compelling us to act out of desperation. We are the calm, still silence that whispers the way forward in feelings of knowing nectar.
When it comes to our inner globes, we must choose silence over violence.
(This stillness usually lives beneath our pain, which is why most never know it. They fear facing their pain, so they never know themselves. This is why healing at the subconscious roots is so important. It allows us to connect with ourselves at the deepest level and get to the place of our intuition and wisdom.)
3. What we need arrives, and what fades away isn’t our concern.
This natural process of receiving and relinquishing can only happen if we live in connection with ourselves and stop grasping.
Knowing ourselves and remembering who we are at the deepest levels can be challenging and take practice, but it feeds every corner of our lives.
There’s so much to discover, waiting in quiet anticipation to be known.
What fades away isn’t ours to hold.
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Questions to consider and write about:
Honestly look at how you spend your days.
How much of it comes from pushing frenzy?
How much of your day is driven by calm, clear, slow guidance?
What comes of the frenzy?
What are the fruits of the calm?
Which do you want your life to be built upon?
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An experiment to try:
Sit in a quiet, private, comfortable room for 20 minutes: no music, no meditation apps, no mantras or visualizations, just you.
Notice what comes up as you gently reconnect to yourself.
Don’t fight anything and don’t let it lead you either. Just let your mind run free (like letting a dog off the leash at the park).
Watch as the busy kinetic energy slowly simmers into a cool, clean, calm.
Once you reach that place, ask yourself what you want. That is your true inner guidance. It will show up as a soft urge, not a surging verb.
This reconnection will feed living and make a life of feeling.
What came up for you during this practice?
What golden arrows did the questions reveal?
Was it a struggle? Or a breeze?
Hit reply to this letter and let me know.
I’d love to hear about your experience.
How to play?
Feel free to revisit these practices and questions.
Or try them once, and let them settle, never to be thought of again.
Or ponder them momentarily, leaving them at the tip of your tongue, before moving on in radiant reality.
There’s no wrong way to engage, and every level of exploration is valuable.
Following your inner guidance about accessing inner guidance is a beautiful and excellent practice.
Warmly,
Lucas
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