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It is ok not to know Until we do When we know better we do better' As we feel (or see or know) something is just Not right for us The event or space or person (or simply a combination of random swirling energy) is manipulative or stuck or masking or simply misaligned with Our Gut, our internal radar This was once called intuition (and witches were killed for it...) It's root and base is now "proven" to Be In Our Poly Vagal nerve Once this massive nerve uploads BILLION of bytes of incoming data We are said to make a conscious choice. We are trusting this known and explicit, conscious and intentional feedback and flowing with the combined super computer (aka wisdom or lived experience) That "intuition" is a combination of our gut, our nerve and our core values from many past life experiences. As we tune into this ever increasing and expanding repertoire of subtle layers we hear a minute change in pitch, an inflection in ...

"What happens if you know that there is nothing you can do to be better? It's kind of a relief isn't it? You say 'Well, now what do I do?' When you are freed from being out to improve yourself, your own nature will begin to take over." Alan Watts "She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes." Charles Bukowski

Excerpted from the forthcoming A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020) by Matt Licata "Increased awareness is critical and necessary, but for most it is not enough to shift the intergenerational trances of habitual consciousness. Many of us have quite a lot of insight into our embedded patterns and “know” what we need to do to heal, to awaken, to transform. But despite all this “knowing,” fundamental change can remain elusive. At some point it may be only a turning of the heart which has the power and beauty and poetic impact to soothe the cosmic exhaustion, wounds, and pain of an unlived life, where love is revealed to be the ultimate medicine that can penetrate the deepest layers of our conditioning and felt sense of separation. What this “turning of the heart” means in lived, embodied experience for each of us must be discovered in the fire of our own lives. To open to our pain, grief, and longing and allow the allies to reveal...

It’s simple to love unconditionally when we are unattached to how things should be. That’s why the Universe rewards us with flow when we remove our attachments to outcomes, to how things should play out or look like, so that we can simply share love more freely. Remain open to each bare moment and ask, "What would Love Do?" And remember, Love is Fiercely Self Compassionate, firstly. Whilst exploring, processing, feeling, allowing and embracing my own deep, dark, yucky painful feelings over the years, I’ve had people tell me, advise me, warn me, that I’m too sensitive, too deep, too negative, too emotional, too "trapped in ego"; that I’m troubled, broken, un-enlightened, sick, even mentally ill. Yes, I regard the 17 months I spent in those institutions as a wonderful time of growth and healing. I remain grateful to those who have either worked in or have walked that path. I do understand our collective fear of raw emotion, our need to f...

What opens inside you when you're willing to entertain the possibility that things maybe different than you thought they were is what I call the great internal space; a place where you come to know that you don't know. This is really the entry point into the end of suffering: when you become conscious of the fact that you really don't know. I mean that you don't really know anything - that you really don't understand the world, you don't really understand each other, and you ... really don't understand yourself. This is such an obvious thing when we really take a moment and look around. When you look at the world that human beings have created and how we relate to each other, it's so obvious that we don't know anything at all. . Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, ...

Although the mind can identify with all kinds of socially contrived thought structures and accompanying emotions they have no basis in reality. The only reality is reality itself, the power of this cosmos that is arising through the heart as the whole body. Reality that brought you here in the first place is presently nurturing you. It is you. Body and mind arise in and as reality itself. Both mind and body are functioning in a unitary movement as vast relatedness in the int rinsic harmonies of the cosmos. Mind and body are only for relatedness, the heart’s action. If there seems to be any restriction to this or identification with imagined limit of thought structure humanity evolved of Direct Participation in the Given reality. These any body can do, adapted appropriately to individual needs, age, health and cultural background. thank you @brucam108

I Flow, I Am as  Enchanted Nature Inner and Out More Life Breathes an Imperfect Truth Of Loving, Not Needing or Knowing Why or How Simply Creative often Wordless, feeling alive in Loving This Uncertain Journey I Am Love In our Presence Feeling fully This Mother Nature.  Thank you T and M, twice.

Freedom To Be, Your Own True Nature.  Atma Gnanam is profoundly simple, although, of course, not necessarily easy, Atma Gnanam is not about acquiring more intellectual knowledge, it is about letting go.of cognitive beliefs and trusting the primal gut. Atma Gnanam is ancient, absolute and profoundly simple. Atma Gnanam is abiding in 'the mind of unknowing', embracing grounded uncertainty Atma Gnanam is where what we need to know will then reveal itself to us. Ego thrives on complexity and wants to keep adding more to itself, Ego is the external hamster wheel of seeking, striving, reaching, repetitive doing or resisting, busy mindless consuming of "stuff", be it physical, emotional or spiritual.energy Truth, atma gnanam,  is as Simple as Radical Responsibilty. "Do The Work. Dive Deep. Create Your Own True North". In Every Moment. When we Let It In, Let It Be and Let It Go, we flow as open shape shifting channels. When we live as The Pat...