Real change
We normally seek change in response to resisting and rejecting an aspect of life—a circumstances, an event or a part of ourselves.
The ego and the soul
We are the human and the spirit. The ego and the soul. The physical and the boundless.
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Resistance
Resistance shows up in various ways—denial, lying to oneself, missing the forest for the trees, perfectionism, procrastination, self-sabotage. When we resist, we look whatever it is we’re resisting in place. We block the flow of feelings and thoughts and rather than pass through us, they stay in us and grow in impact over time. We
Humility
Humility comes in when we understand that nothing we are and nothing we do is about who we are—but about the universe expressing itself through us.
Overt and covert forms of power
Life expresses itself in both overt and covert ways. Nature is powerful both in its ferocity and its quiet adaptability. We can give by giving, and we can give by receiving. We can attack with action and with the absence of it. We tend to associate the qualities we seek with their overt expressions—attention is
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Water to fish, air to birds
Sometimes what we’re most looking for is what we already have. What we miss the most is what’s already there.
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The wolf in sheep’s clothes
Our minds are primed to spot patterns. Patterns of expression, patterns of behaviour, patterns of being. Processing new information is one of the most metabolically intensive activities and our brains have evolved to mitigate that by developing mental shortcuts. Heuristics enable us to take in, interpret and react to information in efficient ways. The learn
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Who we are not
The part of us that’s asking to go is not who we are. The part that’s asking to go is the scared, fragmented, fearful side of us.
Relative and absolute worth
There are two types of worth: relative and absolute. Relative worth is the conventional worth that we associate with achievement, success, appreciation, status. Its perceived value increases when certain criteria are fulfilled and it decreases if we fail, struggle or stagnate.
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Real trust
Conventionally, we want proof in order to trust. This is the ego. Scared and in need of reassurance. Real trust is unconditional. It’s a leap of faith into the unknown. It’s independent of proof and it’s about trusting that life, in ways that are beyond the capacity of what we can intellectualise, knows what it’s doing.