True You Consciousness

What is the limited or conceptual sense of self? It really comes down to our sense of I. Our ability to self-reflect. It is really the meaning-making machine of the mind. All the meaning we make about ourselves, about others and about life and the world. This all comes from our ability to self-reflect and our sense of I. Our sense of being an individual that is separate from everything else. This creates a perception of very solid matter. And this creates a world of comparison. Most of us live inside of this conceptual matrix of comparison and interpretation. Our mental concepts create the illusion of separation and most of us are identified with this. This is how we are conditioned to experience the world and our reality. There is always a gap between what is and our interpretation or concept of what is. This is the conceptual self. It is the collection of ideas that exist in the form of thought. What happens for most of us is that our attention is inside of the thoughts, i.e., we think it is us, all of the time. And there isn’t any space or awareness of the thoughts. And the implication or the lived experience of this is that we are living inside a very limited perception of reality. A very limited perception of what is. A very limited and distorted perception of the deeper truth. Because all we experience is our thoughts. Can you see this? Can you maybe see this in a large part of your experience? The more we understand and have figured out, the more deeply embedded and attached to our opinions and belief systems, the more distorted our reality is. This probably sounds the opposite of the way it should sound. We might think, but the more knowledge and understanding I accumulate the wider view I have of the world. I know more stuff. This is a paradox. The more accumulation we have, the less room and space that is available to go beyond the realm of the conceptual. Because all our understanding, accumulation of knowledge, everything we think we have figured out about life and about ourselves, our opinions, beliefs, they all exist in this conceptual realm that we are talking about. When we shift out of this conceptual realm, we become aware that there is a much deeper aspect to who we are that exists beyond the conceptual realm. The conceptual realm exists on the surface. It is a surface aspect of who we are. Dive deep into the heart of who you are in this podcast episode.

I believe the deeper purpose of life it is about becoming a complete expression in life of our true inner essence – there is something we each are uniquely here to be, and the ultimate fulfillment is found in becoming that. Our true inner essence or our soul essence is the Universe, cosmos, the divine uniquely expressed through each one of us. It feels to me like the experiment and the adventure of life here on Earth is all about the source of life, the source of being wanting to know itself, wanting to experience and express itself, its love, its purity, its ecstasy, and we as humans are the medium through which that can happen. And the life journey is about moving through the layers upon layers of conditioning and limitation that block us from accessing, embodying, and expressing our true inner essence, our true nature. I want to invite you into your own deep contemplation about what the deeper purpose of life is for you? What is your own inner knowing about this?

Do you need anything to be different than the way it is?  If you didn’t want anything to be different than the way it is, can you identify a problem?  This moment is complete, whole and there’s nothing missing.  There is absolutely nothing missing in this moment.  Nothing needs to be different than the way it is right now.  When we can deeply embrace this what happens is all our attention and energy is freed and liberated because we no longer give our attention and energy to fixing problems and trying to make things different than the way they are. What would you do with your life’s energy if you no longer needed anything to be different than the way it is right now? Our minds don’t like discomfort, they don’t like to be uncomfortable.  What happens when any sort of discomfort or uncomfortableness arises in our bodies is our minds make up a story.  And our minds make up a story because they want to distract us from the discomfort.  If our minds can get our attention and engagement in the story, then we don’t have to feel the discomfort that is arising.  And this is where most problems exist, in our minds. But something profound happens when we are able to make direct contact with exactly what is.

Do feel and sense that your deeper purpose in life is to express the deepest yearnings and feelings within your heart and soul? And to create and experience life as your true inner essence? And you are currently experiencing the agony of knowing you came here for this deeper purpose, but you aren’t living it. You absolutely know deep in your heart, this is what you came here for, but you are not actually creating it in your life. You might not have clarity on what it looks like, your lived experience might not match the potential you can sense and feel inside you, you might not know how to get that potential out of you and expressed into the world. You know deep inside you that you have something deep and unique and authentic that you came here to share with the world, it might feel like the thing you have cared about your entire life and at the same time it is the one thing that you have not been able to create in your life. What I discovered after years of deep transformational work and being on a spiritual path is that no matter what I did I could not create the ONE thing I cared about because that ONE thing cannot be put into words. It doesn’t exist at a conceptual level, and it doesn’t exist in tangible form. It doesn’t exist as an object that I can possess and attach to and try to manifest.  It doesn’t exist as a projection of what I think I want to manifest. It has ALWAYS been the love inside of me to express the deepest yearnings and love within my heart and soul, to be so utterly captivated by the experience of this love and light within myself, aka embodiment, that nothing else really matters. And this is what True You Consciousness is all about. This is how we will transform the world into an expression of Universal love.