The Flash and the goalless race...

Mr Allen spent his life flashing through it: competing, preparing, racing, at times he made it, at times he didn’t.

He believed the harder he tried, pushed and competed, the more accolades he’ll claim and the further he would reach.... his goals.

Strenuously racing and rushing through the episodes of his life, Stress started to pile up and feelings of weariness, weakness, fatigue and confusion started to consume him. On one special occasion, he couldn’t flash against a strong current of wind, the wind was so hard it made him stop completely.

Gasping for breath, frustrated and cursing the wind; he took off his mask and yelled: Why? Why is this happening to me?

The wind is the natural current of life – always oscillating and changing in its vibrational dynamics.

A smaller part of our Self/Psyche will always run against the wind to achieve materialistic/worldly possessions and success. But, when the suffering increases – in resistance to life – the clays must be broken, and the masks are removed to show our true selves.

A Self that is grander than what you think, subtle as nature and is all around.

This is life, if we are not aligned with it and our higher self, the process of resistance will wear us down to the ground. We forget why we’re living, and we are just striving and surviving. Stop and pause. Contemplate this: slowly, deeply and honestly; You’re here to live. Are you living? Auto-mating? Creating? Struggling? How’s your energetic signature being expressed?

The unprocessed parts of us, with the protection of the Ego, resist; it defies change. Our true selves, pure consciousness is inspiring and divine. Processing life is allowing the unconscious to integrate with the divine to become more conscious of the energies within. Rooted in this sacred human body.

"I don’t know why I did that, I don’t know what’s wrong with me, how come this happened to us"; that’s the calling of the unconscious to be attended to – our fragmented and exiled parts of us are tired of repression and suppression. Unattended, untamed, unseen and stuck energies – in time – will blow out of proportion, wreaking havoc and chaos beyond your conscious attention; or whatever awareness you have thought of.

Calibrating and regulating our internal chemistry takes precedence over thought-control, because I don’t believe that’s possible. In this age of excess and fast information, what do you consciously process to experience as of your own? What’s yours and not? Who’s the thinker – you or the external? That’s why observing – processing – to see what’s relevant to you, is to limit the influx of information to suit your internal state – your true beliefs and needs. Therefore, thoughts are to be allowed to flow, the stripping of thoughts from their outdated energy and integrating the raw energy into the repertoire of you is the... Healing. The way to achieve that is by trust, recognition and surrendering to what’s pushing your buttons.

One day on the beautiful island of Zanzibar, I was waiting for my turn at the coffee bar to receive my Espresso. A woman wanted to cut through the bar to get to the restrooms, instead of waiting for her turn outside. Asking if she short-cut her way to the toilet, the Barista simply said: "There are no short-cuts in life, please wait". And, that’s the simplicity of it. We try to hack and to short-cut, but our life is nothing but a grand pathless path. Why do we short-cut/hack? To save time to not do the work - which needs patience and trust. Why do we want to hack into our biology, when we are the intelligence that runs it! We are becoming oblivious to what is and wanting to become what is not.

Take the time, my dear reader, to contemplate on the below:

• Be an agent of new possibilities over past and expected probabilities.

• Elizabeth Gilbert said: “You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.”

• Anxiety is our ability to speculate a future through the experiences and thoughts of the past. The way to reverse back is to root in the moment. The heart doesn’t like to speculate, it relates to now and that’s the deepest state of knowing. It truly knows... YOU.

• For there is nothing either good or bad but the thinking that makes it so – Hamlet.

• By allowing (trusting) the self to heal; is to surrender to the moment (The healing space).

• The mere aspect of projection is the ignorance of what we resist, the feelings associated with that state of fragmentation – what's repressed and forgotten.

• Control involves competition, manipulation and stress (to keep up) with needs to be contained - controlled.

• What you don’t like about others is an aspect that you don’t enjoy about yourself. A side that you’re unconscious of, that only relaxes when it’s validated from the external – projected into the experiences of others. Rather than allowing your own awareness and energy to do that.

• Surrendering involves trust, vulnerability, gratitude and appreciation; yes, we will start to appreciate the things that we fear, as they are reasons why we are running away from – in the end, you’re leaving the larger parts of your capacity behind.

• Differentiating the tone of the voices in your head – the loudness of the untrained Ego and the softness of the soul.

• The sprouting of the seed of spirituality is the observance of the tree as it grows.

• The biggest work to do is on yourself and within you, as there are infinite angles of perception to view you. What you consciously resist is what you’re unconsciously living by.

• Feel your resistance, sit with it. With time, you will begin to discern; without judgement, without suppression and without restiveness. Transformation and integration will inspire you – it's our nature to evolve. The universe will feel that, as it doesn’t resonate with desperation. Only inspiration through love and acceptance.

• You’re the commander of your ship; the compass is invisible within you. It extends to the sea and deep waters, the waves of life.

From my heart to yours,

Peace in and peace out.