The Conscious Cove

Before you can love yourself, you have to love being in the world. You have to love being in your body. You have to love those things first - then you can find love for yourself. So, if you are resisting the way, what it is to be in the world - then you'll never have the behavior that's necessary for you - to allow you, to find self love.
- Ra Uru Hu

Sometimes the garden of our mind has become overgrown and unwieldly because we aren't being careful about what thoughts we tend to.

Sometimes we cultivate thoughts that don't serve our energy, thinking we have more influence over outcomes than we actually do, choosing to try to prevent outcomes for ourselves and others, not being ok with the natural progression we are meant to live.

Sometimes we don't even know what has been planted, and we need to take the time to look inward and sit with our thoughts and beliefs to sort through them and see if they are contributing to our highest alignment.

Sometimes we have difficulty accepting what it means to be ourselves, because we judge our life experience as good or bad, instead of being able to be fully present within it, no matter what is showing up.

Our thoughts aren't ours entirely. "Nothing new under the sun." We get to both realize that instead of having them, we experience the mechanic instead of receiving thought, and then participate in thought -- and we get to choose with which ones we participate.

When we can shift our awareness by understanding and embodying this mechanic, we can come to realize how powerful this position is in order to create shifts in our external world. By choosing the thoughts and beliefs we wish to engage in, our outer circumstances will begin to reflect experiences related to these thoughts and beliefs.

The choice is yours. Are you willing to embrace the uncertainty of what life can bring to you, when you begin to challenge thoughts and beliefs you no longer wish to participate in?
Are you willing to tidy the garden of your mind, and allow yourself to face both the state it is in, make decisions about what you allow to grow within it, and embrace the discoveries as you work through it?

It's amazing to consider how much information is at our fingertips. The internet is a reflection of the amount of information the Universe provides for us, and the speed at which we can access it.
It's amazing to consider everything we need is available to us, right here, right now.

Whatever is important for our soul's journey is present already in our reality, in the form of our experience. It is reflected in the small, and in the big. The pieces of duality here, are: The Experience (what is manifest) and The Opportunity (the potential). The experience is presenting ______ so that I have the opportunity to _________.

We can be infinitely creative (or not!) in how we fill in those blanks, however, transformation and transcendence of the experience is only possible when we fill them in correctly according to our soul.

That means we have the opportunity to develop our own skills of self-reflection, which can be grown through our own combination of conceptualizing and experimenting, as well as living out the consequences of how we choose to move through these events and reflecting upon them. Developing this skill of self-reflection enhances our awareness of our own experience of what it is to be human. Enhancing our awareness of this individual experience of being human allows us to naturally become uniquely aware, not just generally aware, but uniquely aware of how our life works.

For each person, life works in a particular way that is not meant to be generalized. At the same time, we do not live in a vacuum. Developing this awareness allows us to offer our unique perspective to others at the right time, so they can benefit from what we have learned, and we can benefit from who can offer that to us, too.

I love the analogy in a reel I saw recently, about how our current experience is the study flashcard the Universe provides for us to see if we have learned the lesson it holds.

I'd love to hear in the comments about a universal flashcard you recently got to experience! In true "leave a penny, take a penny" fashion, you never know how what you share may benefit another. 🎁

"You know enough. Just do what you want to do with the things that you have" - Rodney Mullen

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