Awakening and Deepening into more of your True Nature

Awakening and deepening into your true nature may be foreign to you or it may be familiar to you.  It can be like listening to a faint "still small voice" of knowing as in your intuition rather than the loud often anxiety-producing voice in your head.  We are so conditioned to follow and identify with this louder voice.  How can you switch the channel?  How can you find your intuition?  Descartes said, "I think therefore, I am."  However, wisdom, creativity and meaning come from another source, our whole being, not just the thinking mind.  I AM (essence, true nature, divine being, presence) has always been there, thinking does not make it so.  Thinking, while it has given us great technology, has also created wars that disturb, destroy, divide and detour our attentions to now more important meaningful development.  Many inventors and creative people have experienced this other knowing.  As if there was a flowing river running deep within that knows expansively more than one could ever think.

Are you your roles, your beliefs, your place of birth, your degrees, or the people you know?  What if there was more to you than that?  How will you uncover him or her?  The unknown is quite rich in exploratory value.  "Let go of the shore and let the rush of rapids carry you," is a portion of a Hopi prayer asking you to go into the unknown.

So, how can you begin this inquiry beyond your edge.  When you look into the evening sky and see the depth and expanse of the starry night, could you, too, have that depth and expanse within you?  What can stillness bring to you?  What can arise in that stillness from the ground of your being.  Are you curious at all?  Will you accept all that you are?  Will you embrace more of you, and then more of others?

In the fast paced lives that drive you, can you carve out some space for stillness?  Here in this quiet, whether it be walking in a forest, by a lake or an ocean, or just on the sidewalk in a park or your neighborhood, can be the beginning of listening within.  In my own experience, I found that when I went on a long walk, the loud voice in my head was blasting, but after twenty or thirty minutes,it became quieter and there was a softer voice, maybe in the area of the heart or solar plexus that had replaced the critical voice.  I became more aware of my surroundings, the details, the sound of birds or waves, even the sound of my own footsteps.  This small beginning can be the developing of more awareness within and around you.  This slowing down is an act of love to your self.  You are nourishing a part of yourself that has always been there, but NOW, you are joining with it.

In joining with this quiet place, you begin to create space within in you, for guidance, wisdom, and creativity, not to mention authenticity.  As you nourish and cultivate this in yourself, you at times may experience an ease in decision making, communication and creative pursuits.  You have entered a flow, a feeling of expansion and oneness, a joining with more of who you are.  From here you may begin to wonder about your life.  What do you long for, what would you like to create.  Do you want to explore art or writing or growing a beautiful garden.  Allow yourself time to wonder and to dream.  And begin to listen to that still, gentle voice always guiding toward more of your true nature.

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head.

And yet you go door to door asking for crusts;

Knock on your own inner door, no other.

                                                      .....Rumi