I thrive on control. Organization makes me happy. I like things to go as I will them to, and things to be placed where they belong. Up until recently, that included the strands of my hair.
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The reason I feel like I’m a tourist in a distant land is because I am. Well, we all are. We are all tourists, merely traveling souls here but for a brief moment in time—a nanosecond in the cosmic timeline. And our souls need to grow, too. In fact, they crave this growth. The only thing that frightens a soul is a stagnant, adventure-free life.
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In our society, we are taught early that joy is something to be earned through our human skins—a metaphor I use to refer to the labels, roles, titles, and relationships that we wear throughout our lifetime. This false belief is implanted in us from the time we are children, when we are repeatedly asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Underneath this innocent question is the implied meaning: You must make something of yourself in this world to be deserving of good things. As we become adults, the question changes to, “What do you do for a living?”, but the implication of status-dependent worth lingers.
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In some ways, soul embodiment feels a lot like groundedness. I do feel more connected to the Earth Realm than I was during that time, and can find myself very caught up in what it is to be human being living a limited life span. But I also see my life as a story playing out across time and space, and my role in it is more “observer” than participant.
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Our souls are far too curious, adventurous, wild, and non-conforming to follow the steps and checklists that ego so prefers. As such, our souls probably have little interest in ego’s many ideas of purpose. Our souls did, however, come to the Earth Realm with a reason. This post was originally posted on The Edge Magazine.…
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By the time we’re adults, we’re so accustomed to hiding our emotions, stuffing them down, ignoring them or belittling them, that this idea of seeing and honoring them as truth-tellers sounds like it would cause a revolution.
Maybe it could Maybe we need a revolution: A story-tellers revolution.
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This power transforms a single individual from a human being who is sleepwalking through the days to one who is awake and making a notable difference in the world. One who is boldly addressing the inequities in the world as an agent of change. And one who is kindling this same kind of awakening in everyone they meet.
And if you’re ready for that, then please, join me in the movement.
We weren’t trying to find a label—we were going to search for a direction. For a call. For a reason that could motivate all of my work. This was a soul-searching, value-driven process of diving into the depths of my being for what gives me the most meaning and purpose in my life.
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Staying asleep might seem like we are staying safely out of the way, but it’s a passive/aggressive immobility in a culture that needs some fierce rogue agents fighting for change—change is to a healthier, safer, freer society for all of us, not just a few.
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Enter the necessary confrontations, dialogues, injustices, and discomforts with all the tools from our spiritual toolboxes: courage, steadiness, resilience, grounding, and most importantly, mindfulness.
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