Most of us are just diving out at life, trying to control or manipulate or protect ourselves. Sending out the scouts to life at all moments to anticipate what is happening… 

Instead, to function in a different way of interacting with life. Stop. Stop. Stop. Don’t reach out. Don’t try to figure life out mentally. Let the environment come to you. Let each situation come to you. It is not “over there”, but right in front of us. It is even closer than that.  We are deeply intimate with all things.

So, in your practice, in your daily life, instead of diving out to life, Receive.  The wild part is that over time we will function much more effectively than how we used to function. By receiving, we’ll begin to encounter life from a felt sense. Life will begin to be porous. We will be able to feel into our interactions rather than thinking about them. A whole new way of being will blossom.  By not diving out, a deeper way of being will emerge. This is confusing and disorienting for many people at first, but so worth it! So be curious. Be honest. Have the courage to feel into what is happening.

And, of course, we can do this physically. We can receive through our bodies. Receive this internal momentum. Receive the room. Receive the garden inside of our bodies. The tanden can be a wonderful tool for making this shift. 

What if your body is filled up by this moment? Physically, energetically, in a felt sense? Your being is formed by this moment.  When we become scattered, divided, we kind of leak essence. But to receive, to fill up, to become one pointed in our being, and move from there is a shocking and beautiful and sublime thing. 

An old photo of Momo and I

This was written for the theme of our second week of our July 2023 Monthlong Immersion the Energy Collective community is in. Thanks for your great efforts!