March 2023

Dear Blessed One,

Struggle is necessary. It is part of the process of life, of evolution, of awakening from the dream.

Consider evolution. Can you imagine us even being here without great struggle, challenge, and desire? Life is handling the process perfectly. Nobody taught the cell to divide. Growth, expansion, awakening is managed by life as it expresses in everything. An infant learns to walk through the urge to reach the out-of-reach things and to move more quickly across space.

Life is life-ing... let it be. Even fighting with life is part of the process. Do not fight the fighter. When there is enough awareness in the moment, a new response will automatically arise.

Pain has its place in our evolution. It is a growth factor, while also being the contrast for you to recognize joy. If everything were blue, we could not see the sky.

Up, down, left, right, in, out, happy, sad, loud, quiet... they are needed contrast for the life-in-form experience.

When we honor all life expressions, we become free of the resistance that disrupts the human expression of consciousness.

There is no place to go in order to find the true self; it is right here. As one becomes more and more aware and less identified with constructs of the mind, a remembering begins to arise from the dust of chaos. When that deep recognition happens inside of you, (a knowing of you beyond the things of the world and the limited human perspective), you are free.

Don't look for fireworks. That may happen but it is not needed for awakening. Even expanded states of consciousness come and go. Awakening can be a subtle experience... like an exhale, a letting go of the tight grip of identification.

Watch. Listen. Unplug from the busyness of doing. Sit in nature. Breathe with a houseplant. Let everything go for just a few minutes.

The mind is what continually pushes us to do-do-do. Take a breath, do not follow the mind for one whole breath, and then do it again. When you experience the taste of spaciousness, you will hunger for more breaths of stillness. Do not let the shadows of doing obscure your being.

Thoughts are data that have been fed into you. They are nothing new. You can rearrange thoughts, use them for survival, and accomplish things in the world, but it is not coming from your natural self. Thoughts come from the past and the conditioned mind. There is only Life holding you, surrounding you, and moving you - - always in the direction of home.

Your true self is before the mind, before thoughts, and effortless. You are already complete. Let that remembering soften all identification with the mind.

Much Love and Blessings to You!
shellee rae

"Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart." ~ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert