Stop Trying and Remember Who You Are

What would happen if you stopped trying to be something other than what you are right now?  What if you stopped trying to be thinner; happier; more enlightened; richer; more successful; relaxed; a better parent, friend, lover, spouse, employee, boss, entrepreneur, student, yogi; an expert?

What if you simply let go of the need to be more or less of anything at all?  What do you feel when you think of letting go of trying?

Gasp!

When you are trying to be anything at all, you are aligning with your mind or ego.  Your ego is an aspect of you that is impermanent and identifies with the linear, provable world.  The ego perceives everything through a lens of scarcity.  It experiences you as a limited identity that requires physical solutions to become more than you are right now.

But here’s the hitch.  You are not your ego.   You are a soul.  As a soul, you existed before your body and ego mind came to be.   

So what the heck does that mean and how does it relate to trying?

The problem is one of identification or alignment.  Knowing that you are a soul and not a body changes everything.

So take a moment to be here and now as you contemplate this possibility.  Relax your arms and let them fall into your lap.  Drop your shoulders, uncross your legs.  Straighten your back but don’t make it rigid.  Loosen your jaw and relax your facial muscles. Relax the muscles around your eyes.   Now, breathe deeply into your body filling your lungs from the bottom up.  Elongate your exhale.  Do this several times, breathing in deeply and elongating your exhale.  As you do this exercise, notice how this type of breathing feels.  Bring your attention to your breath as it moves into your body and slowly flows outward.  Notice your abdomen rising and falling.  Notice what happens internally.  How do you feel?

Continue to breathe deeply as you focus on your breath.  Breathing in, breathing out.  Now notice your thoughts as you focus on your breath.  Witness you, without analyzing.  Don’t judge; just witness.  As you notice your breath and the thoughts you have while doing this exercise; observe your ability to notice.  Witness yourself witnessing. 

Take a deep cleansing breath and return to this page. 

When you are noticing your breath and thoughts, who witnessed your breath?  Who witnessed your thoughts?  Who is the witness of your witness?

Don’t try to answer.  Simply notice what arises into your consciousness when you ask.  

Are you the breath or the thoughts?  Are you the witness?  You exist beyond thought, the breath and the witness.  You exist beyond the identity through which you have come to know as you.

The you that lives beyond the limits of your persona abides beyond the confines of time and space.  You, as a soul, are not bound to linear experiences, mind realities and dimensions only perceived through the accepted senses. 

The soul exists and communicates at a much higher frequency than physical reality, within multiple dimensions simultaneously and has access to all resources needed to thrive in every facet of life.  But when you identify yourself as the person who exists in the confines of a physical world, you will experience the world as limited; intensely demanding, at times lonely and a place where trying to be something more is essential for survival.  In that experience, you are essentially cut off from your true nature and power existing in a perpetual state of striving and not thriving. 

But you have the power to change this way of being.  You are designed to live as a soul in a physical world; not as a physical being trying to discover your spiritual side.  You don’t have a soul; your soul has a body and mind through which it can navigate physical reality.  This seemingly abstract notion challenges the ego which will give great evidence to contradict such an assertion.  But science cannot disprove the existence of a soul any more than it can prove it. The soul exists beyond the limits of provable realities. To awaken is to live in full consciousness of that truth.  

You are a soul.  You have a body equipped with a mind and emotions.  To be a soul in a body is a great privilege.  To master this experience requires willingness to appreciate this truth and stretch into its meaning.  You do not have to “try” to be anything when you remember that you are a soul.   There is nothing to become.  No success for which you must strive.  You remember you are all that is, moving through a container called a human mind and body.  Your job here is to remember and allow  the true soul YOU to be expressed without resistance.  

That’s easy for a soul to do and hard for an ego identified being. 

Your ego lives attached to this physical world and duality.  It experiences the physical world as All-that-is and requires hard work from you; striving to feel good enough and more acquisitions to feel prosperous.  Because it lives in separation from Source and therefore Soul, it does not know the truth of who you are.

But there is good news: The soul never lives in this state.   You as a soul, exist in timeless connection to All-That-Is.   The soul has resources for whatever it seeks to express.  Its language is intuition….that sensory processing that defies logic! For intuition to be accessed, it requires a choice. 

Yes, you get to decide.   You can exist on earth, searching for meaning and purpose, striving to connect with your soul.  Or you can remember that you are a soul and that there is no place or thing to seek.  You choose to attune and align your attention to that which is the immutable you and allow that exquisiteness into this physical world.  You appreciate your true essence; express it reverently and enjoy the experience of moving infinite energy through the container of your mind, body and emotions. 

As a soul, you have gifts to bear. Be sure of this: our world is enhanced when you express your true essence in everyday life.   

So here is an invitation for today; stop trying and start being.  In this moment, let go of the idea that you are this mind and body through which you have come to know yourself.  Breathe into your divine essence here and now. Feel into the grace existing beyond emotion, thought and body.   Listen deeply with your heart and know that you are timeless bliss; love; peace, truth, and joy.

You have a choice.  To strive to be more – or to let go and remember that you are enough, you are exquisite, you have a purpose and that you are divine beauty right here and now. 

What will you choose?