Everyday there is this race to get stuff done and that means even if things are done , they are tainted with a subtle dose of misery, meaning the full self wasn’t there, the highest version of us is not the one getting stuff done. Its survival mode who’s acting, its like a twin or a body double who is just standing in for the real one, they try to be like the real one, even sound as convincing enough to us and it feels okay, but it isn’t, that us is not alive, that us is chasing its tail
I have become so good at noticing when i am chasing my tail, its when i am rushing meditation, rushing writing, its a disingenuous me, its nowhere close to my full potential. Slowing down and gaining pose again is so pivotal in how i live, in what i do and how i speak to someone because within a split second i can shift gears back into the twin, the stand in, the body double, the substitute teacher.
The work i have done and want to bring to others is to reduce the amount of time acting in this mode and increase the amount of time being in the powerful poised self, it requires increased awareness and snapping out of the spell. As i said, its convincing this body double, even we ourselves don’t know we are there are at times.
Therefore there has to be constant awareness and with that we become free, we become powerfully limitless, not in survival and fear mode but in a 100 times better mode. Its not about being calm and relaxing, its about being the best we can be, even the slightest amount of increased awareness can change an entire conversation, day, a year.
Wake yourself up from this spell constantly, hey its okay to be in the body double mode, we are humans. But you must be aware of it and know that you are not it, its voice is a voice full of memories, it is not you. You are the one who can slow down, grab some popcorn and watch your body double play the role, and then turn the movie off and go and live your best life 🙂
-Raj
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