No one thing is going to be “THE” thing you’ve been looking for.  YOU are a process.  So what you are looking for, needing, resonating with and what is actually helpful to you in this moment will always be different.  You are changing, so what resonates will change too. 

No book, guru, podcast, way of eating, philosophy can ever encapsulate the whole “Truth.”  It can only be one LENSE on the infinite, unknowable Truth. 

BUT we can feel the Truth.  Our beautiful, reverberating bodies can tell us what direction feels open, non-resistant and in general seems to move with a naturalness.  And our bodies can tell us what makes us feel like we want to contract, draw back or what feels forced and just not like something that fits or feels right. 

We are equipped with this amazing resonance system.  It tells us when we are moving with the way things naturally move, and when we aren’t.

If you are looking for the one thing that will finally give you the answer so you can relax and live your life, you’re it.  YOU’RE the “it.” Inside you, that inner navigation system will answer every moment with an accurate resonance. Your mind is busy assessing and gets confused. But your body tells you what is right for you in that moment. 

As I heard a dear person say recently, “It’s not about what’s right. It’s about what’s right for me right now.”

Let all the options be available to nourish the process of you in this moment, rather than trying to make the ever-evolving YOU fit into one tiny perspective of The Infinite Creative Flow of Everything.

You’re it! So what’s right for your “IT” right now?

I work with the feeling side of the situation.  The energy.  The vibe.  The huge information that is available when we look deeper than the words or story.  Looking through the lens of energy shows us the motivation behind your thinking and actions.  So we can see what kinds of false, unhelpful rules your mind has made up about what to do, how to be, how you think others and the world should be……We look at the feeling of the energy. Which also shows you that YOU are energy that is MUCH bigger than any thought.  When you become aware of that, the feeling takes care of all the doing.  It softens any need for “rules” about how to be in the world.  The massive pressure you were applying to enforce those false rules is released.  Relief. Freedom. Choices. Peace. All those come into focus and you realize they were here all along. 

If you’d like to see behind the curtain and open things up for yourself, I hope you’ll allow me to help.  We’ll talk, yes. And I think more importantly, we’ll feel into things together.
Much love,
Chris

Ask, Don’t Tell
 
Don’t tell the moon what to do.
Don’t tell the stars how to shine.
Don’t tell the night sky its color is wrong
And that you’ve thought of another way it should be.

Don’t tell the moon, stars, earth, your body
To be different, better, more convenient.

Lie down in the grass with them and
Wonder
Listen
Look.

Ask.
They will share their ways of beauty and aliveness
And they will free you to hear your own, too.


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CB

 
Things are designed to come back into balance.
Including you.

No matter how long it’s been since you think you felt it.
No matter how far away it seems.

All things are part of a dynamic, living, Larger Equilibrium.
Including you.
Balance finds itself over time, within and between galaxies.
You, YOU, may be doing a dance of balance with a forest of alien trees on another world..
With a flock of unknowable winged creatures somewhere in space…
With an ocean in another universe…
 
You may be an important part of the birth of a solar system….
Or the trajectory of another human being…….
 
The scale is vast.
Is that small comfort?
Here, in the middle of your struggle between extremes?
But hear that….  You ARE in the middle.  YOU are in the center.
 
Things are designed to come back to the pregnant pause, the still point.
The scope is infinite, and yet it’s here even in your own lifetime,
Your own morning and afternoon,
Your own cells…..
 
Home, the Wholeness of All Things,
Dances close, right here, through the Exquisite fulcrum of
YOU.
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Love, 
Chris

Your brain loves you so much that it literally acts as a bodyguard for you!  It’s whole job is to keep your body ALIVE! (So you can do stuff like watch movies, hang out with friends, dance, eat…. You gotta have a body for that stuff!)

The trouble is that your bodyguard brain takes itself a liiiiiiitle too seriously in this day and age when we aren’t actually foraging for food and running from tigers anymore.

Your brain wants to do a good job for you, but times have changed and your brain has nothing to do but run POTENTIAL scenarios. Then it wants to sit you down on the couch and tell you all about what could happen, theoretically, according to imaginary future situations it’s making up.  

You can understand that it would helps your brain keep you alive if you BELIEVE all those projected, dangerous “what ifs.”  It helps your brain if it can scare you into being super cautious.  So your bodyguard brain paints a vivid, totally believable picture.  There you are, quaking on the couch because OMG, someone COULD jump out of a bush with a purple balloon that pops and then somehow you could choke on, so you really SHOULD be afraid of bushes!  And balloons! And, well, PEOPLE!  Right?!  Nah. It’s just your way overprotective bodyguard taking itself way to seriously and trying to do a good job for you. 

Theoretically, bodyguards are hired to worry about us so that WE don’t have to worry about stuff.  Bodyguards have it covered.  So does yours.  Don’t worry – those scenarios aren’t real. But if you ever step out in front of a car you didn’t see coming at first, your bodyguard will reflexively get you out of the way – FAST – even if that wasn’t one of the dangerous scenarios it imagined. 

Your brain knows what to do and it will do it. You can count on those reflexes when they are actually needed in each, unplanned moment.

Whew!  Now you can say to your brain, “Thank you, my marvelous, annoyingly overprotective bodyguard!  You can go back to making up possible situations so that you are “prepared.” You go ahead and worry and do your job (and I’ll just kinda not listen next time you are running all those “what if” scenarios by me!)  Thanks! Good job!  I’m gonna go dance with my friends now!”