February 2023

Dear Blessed One,

In this moment, is there anything actually happening? Are you worried about something that happened in the past that may repeat itself in the present or concerned about a possible glitch in some future event?

Whenever this happens, the experience is intensified by wandering into some imaginary realm. Right now, the only thing that is happening is mind-activity. Continuing to listen to it adds drama to the situation and will not create resolution.

Step back just a little from the one who is identified with the experience and let the experience just be as it is. Relax the mind. Feel the natural sense of being. When we allow situations to be as they are, saying yes to the mess, there is an opportunity to feel the peace that holds it all. Spontaneous resolution arises from emptiness... a complete not knowing.

Beyond the smoke and mirrors of the mind, there is expansive awareness that watches as life unfolds. It does not mind the mind. It has no attachment to history. It sees pain and beauty with the same eyes and receives both with an open heart. This is not a state of resignation or indifference. It is relaxed and open awareness, which allows higher knowing to direct movement and all responses to life's undulations.

The conditioned (programmed) mind has built up strength and has many stories and justifications to validate its opinions and fears. For my whole life all the way into early sobriety in the late 90's, there was a voice that said, "Because of my history of abuse, I am damaged goods, and I will never be normal." (Normal is someone else's programmed idea of how one should be... don't be normal.) Being totally identified with victim perspective and having beliefs that kept me in a rather constant state of human messiness was an important part of my process. We do not get to wander the trail of life picking and choosing what we want to experience on our journey of expansion.

Life is life-ing. It says yes to everything because it knows where it is going. Breathe, let go, surrender it all, and allow life to have its way with you.

While releasing attachment to the one who thinks it knows, and no longer being identified with the illusory self, the true You is attainable. This is your natural self. Your true self has never gone anywhere, the attention has only been focused in another direction.

Take your own hand and walk yourself home to the heart. Experience seeing all life through the eyes of Love.

Much Love and Blessings to You!
shellee rae

"We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace." ~ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert