(A Covid-era spiritual lulaby)
I realize everyone is burnt out from working at home, feeling disconnected, and probably even burnt out from the burnout.
Through it all, I’ve been wanting to say there’s a completely different way of approaching mental and emotional health that everyone seems to be missing. As with all spiritual solutions, it isn’t obvious.
Let’s challenge some assumptions
Did you know that you can still be in a lockdown yet feel connection at any time to the Universe—even without others being around?
Did you know that you can have a genuine feeling of lightness and joy that buoys you up into good cheer—even without access to your normal freedoms?
And did you know that you can also feel complete—without crossing anything off of your bucket list?
Strangely, counter-intuitively, it’s yes, yes, yes.
It’s just that none of these can be achieved by reading another “How I made it” article or by micro-managing feelings like an accountant balancing a spreadsheet.
The intellect will never give a salient answer because the truly satisfying result you want doesn’t come from the level of the mind.
You and I are soul seekers. Our destination is inward.
Only a spiritual solution will reach the depths of the issue.
Feelings, the Language of the Soul
The wholly desired feeling of connection naturally appears when you are with loved ones, right?
And it’s easy to mistake my body with “Who I Am” and then assume that any desirable feeling comes from the body when other bodies are around.
Yet bodies are fundamentally separate by default. By contrast, it is your infinite self that is eternally united with everything, and when you tap into that, you are connected by default.
In other words, connection is a quality of the soul.
Feeling connected to the Universe, to others, to your place in life—these feelings arise not from finite things, but from The Infinite Itself.
What about lightness and joy? Are they soul borne too?
Even if an unmovable force like The Government stops you from moving freely, your feeling of lightness and joy can still grow from within. You’re never diminished when you’re tapped into your soul self, because the soul by its nature is e x p a n s i v e.
Feeling complete is a soul quality as well.
Your soul self, lacking a body, is without need for anything and without limitations on time or space.
As you meditate and move away from identifying with your body, becoming more aware of your soul self, you’ll naturally feel this “nothing is wrongness because there’s so much fullness”.
In actuality, to analyze or compare this state to anything else would only engage the pipsqueak thinking mind and instantly drop your expanded experience.
This is partly why you meditate, so you can practice resting in this grander state, without indulging the need to do anything with it. You don’t even have to explain it to yourself—doing so would only take you out of the experience!
Truly, you and I must reconnect to our soul self, or our cluttered minds will inevitably become depressed—with or without a global lockdown. It’s just that a lockdown will accelerate this conclusion.
So the count-conclusion is simple.
Go within. Meditate. Rest back into your infinite soul self, daily.
An opportunity to shift into soul consciousness
It’s one thing to talk about this, but it’s another to experience it. That’s why I’ve created a one week online meditation retreat / boot camp.
It’s about effortlessly shifting from languishing “blah” thoughts and emotions into the positive soul feelings you and I crave: connection, lightness, joy, wholeness, and peace.
It’s based around this question:
What would happen if you meditated until the peace became more real than the thoughts?