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This analogy came up after reflecting on all the times where people contact me when life looks really grim and difficult and they have been piling up worries for eons and eons.<\/p>\n
Feeling the peace within is easy when life seems simple and straightforward, but it\u2019s almost undoable when you are cornered by problems.<\/p>\n
I see this misunderstanding all the time in potential clients (where they show up with a collection of problems they\u2019ve accumulated over many years), and in people I already work with (where our coaching opens up a world of freedom which feels totally amazing and liberating but will always be challenged by the mind again).<\/p>\n
You can do something about this, prepare for this, be ready for it, but you\u2019ll have to do the work whenever you can.<\/p>\n
Work?<\/p>\n
In particular spiritual circles people will smugly tell you \u2018that there\u2019s nothing to do, and that nothing will be left undone\u2019.<\/p>\n
Which sounds kinda deep and could be very true on a completely elevated or purely integrated conscious level, but which is also not practical and quite disrespectful of the human condition most of us experience constantly.<\/p>\n
It may be true that everything just happens the way it does for no specific reason and without you and me having to interfere, but from that same perspective you could also claim there is room to dive in and do shit anyway.<\/p>\n
In the most radical way of looking at life, you already ARE Consciousness having a ball being lost in the human experience, yet there\u2019s no need nor obligation to sit under a tree and wait for the enlightenment to strike.<\/p>\n
You CAN do stuff.<\/p>\n
Now I know that I always rant about people asking for \u2018tips and tricks\u2019, but that\u2019s not what I\u2019m aiming for here.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not really about specific actions or habits, but about your intention behind them, the reason we do it, and the clarity it can bring.<\/p>\n
Because what you CAN do and really should do, is change your relationship with thinking, with perception, with your personal reality.<\/p>\n
What you CAN do, is get a conscious appreciation for the only thing that never changes in your life, no matter where you are or what you do or how you feel.<\/p>\n
What you CAN do, therefore, is become aware of awareness, and follow your curiosity to experience more of that delicious, neutral freedom.<\/p>\n
But do it as much as you can and as often as you can, make it into a metaphysical daily habit, and don\u2019t wait for the shit to hit the fan.<\/p>\n
Life is one big-ass playground and laboratory, and you can turn literally everything into an object to play with and learn from.<\/p>\n
You can find lessons in the day-to-day stuff, and you can try all kinds of activities, as long as your only goal is to become deeply aware of awareness itself.<\/p>\n
Learn to get rid of the mental stuff you don\u2019t need, and fall in love with what\u2019s left behind.<\/p>\n
Read books, watch videos, meditate, go on hikes, start working out, take cold showers, write, breathe, fast, or gently sway in a hammock, whatever.<\/p>\n
Whatever gets you there.<\/p>\n
Play, explore, investigate, try shit.<\/p>\n
Because whatever takes your attention away from the mumbling, threatening and chronically dissatisfied mind, gives you an opportunity to dramatically change the relationship with your thinking.<\/p>\n
And it will help you to consciously land where you are safe and solid and endless: the space before and during and after.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll want to do that as much as possible, and eventually you\u2019ll find yourself being more inventive when it comes to learning and exploring, much more resilient and creative in daily situations, and much, much more free to find new options where you used to find none.<\/p>\n
Of course we\u2019re essentially divine energy in motion, but within the play there\u2019s also room for waking up, unveiling, even progress.<\/p>\n
So if you want to be ready for when the big waves come again, go in the water now and learn to feel comfortable splashing around.<\/p>\n
It will make all the difference.<\/p>\n
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