When you push yourself to do something uncomfortable you offer yourself an opportunity to go beyond the usual mundanity of life, for you are there in your life to accomplish something meaningful. Every life has something meaningful to discover. Perhaps it is to resolve an old karmic issue brought over from a previous life. Perhaps it is to go beyond the self you think you are to discover the self you had no idea you could be. Perhaps it is to always be uncomfortable in your body, until you discover the secret your body has been trying to reveal to you. Perhaps it is to always think too lowly of yourself so that you may discover the truly open, outgoing and caring person that you have been afraid to meet. Perhaps it is to think so highly of yourself so that you may discover the frightened person you truly are, and thus be able to finally heal. Every life has a meaningful encounter with the inner self to resolve.
Dare yourself to do something different today, even something simple, but make it be something meaningful. Perhaps there is something you have wanted to do for a long time but keep putting it off. Perhaps there is a person you long to speak to but have not reached out. Perhaps there is a place that brings you joy but you have put off going there. It is in a simple dare to do something different and meaningful that new possibilities and new life may emerge.
It’s not too far-fetched to imagine your dreams coming true. It’s never too late to grab onto what you most desire to fulfill in your lifetime. A dream will remain only a dream unless you bring it to life by taking action on your own behalf. For it is in action that a dream will wake up and find itself alive in a new reality. If your dream is still sleeping within you then it’s up to you to wake it up in some way. It might just mean challenging yourself to do something unexpected. Otherwise, it will remain just a dream. With all the powers you already have at your fingertips, within your heart, and within your physical energetic self, we know you will find the right button to push to catapult you out of your dream and into your new reality.
The phrase “being in the Tao” suggests that one’s thoughts and actions are best fitted to, and in greatest harmony with, the needs of the whole. However, thoughts and actions that poorly address the needs of the whole are nonetheless in the Tao, as the Tao is wholeness and wholeness includes everything.
America just expressed a powerful wave of action in reaction to its governance. Although America is a democracy, with separation of church and state, at a deep archetypal level citizens project onto their president the role of hierophant, or spiritual leader, imbuing him with a divine numinous presence.
The current president has fulfilled this spiritual role through assuming the role of trickster, completely defying all dignified expectations and blatantly exposing and embodying the shadow of America in his daily doings, both day and night.
The impact upon the American psyche of this leadership was to have it brush up against a latent psychosis. The challenge was for the individual to wake up from its trance and take responsibility for the direction of its personal life and that of the country.
It truly could be argued that the president went to such extraordinarily bizarre behaviors to shake people to disidentify with their spell upon him and to assume conscious control of their destiny. This would represent him as truly being in the Tao in the most necessary sense. But regardless of whether it is actually that, or the Tao of extremism, it is the way of the Tao of now.
At the level of the individual, the hierophant is operative in the relationship within the divine triune self of father, mother and child.
From the inner divine father issues the beliefs and deepest desires that impregnate the mother, the subconscious mind, that brings to physical life the child of its intent.
The inner divine father, to best be in the Tao in his suggestions, must own and settle with his shadow. The shadow is a trickster that will live out all of our hidden doubts, desires and resistances, whereby diluting the potency of our stated intentions. The trickster will confound our lives with distractions and obsessions that seize our vital energy yet offer us a glimpse at our hidden selves. This is the opportunity to wakeup.
The inner divine mother will manifest that which is most potent within our beliefs. Mother may indeed know better, but her role is to create, in the most auspicious way. The best way of being in the Tao with the inner mother is to be sure that the suggestions she receives issue from what is truly needed. Once assured, retire doubt and quietly hold the knowing that it is done.
The inner divine child is best in the Tao when it maintains its innocence and remembers where it came from, its divine parentage. As the president reflects, there can be great temptation for the inner child to deify itself alone, setting the stage for cataclysmic extremism in the Tao.
With gratitude for all the gifts we are given, both within and reflected without, that wake us up to our own divine power and responsibility.
Drop into a new and different state of mind today by shifting into heart-centered breathing and heart-centered compassion whenever you feel yourself drawn toward depression or negativity. Whenever your mind wanders, bring it back to your heart center and give it some positive words to dwell upon, to keep it in the realm of possibility rather than on the wheel of despair. You have this power within, and it is available every minute of every day. You have the power within you to change your reality at any moment, simply by changing your thoughts.
