You don't have to wait to feel better

What does it mean to be the Source of your experience? I’m skipping live channeling this week, so this will take its place. I hope you enjoy. I want to speak on this as simply as I can — in a way that can improve how you feel in a usable way. This perspective I’m sharing with you has been endlessly helpful for me. It’s what gives me the ability to make peace, let things go, and feel safe no matter what. But as with anything I share, filter it through your own discernment. Come to your own conclusions and ways of defining what it means to be Source. Your sense of resonance is your guide. This idea of being the Source of my experience has excited me, empowered me, and confused the living daylights out of me. But a lot of the pieces of this puzzle have been coming together, gradually forming a coherent picture.. I have to say, though, the foundation of this understanding has everything to do with observing life as a mirror. We’ve all heard it: as within, so without; as above, so below. Well, I’ve taken this very literally when it comes to making sense out of my life. I approach every experience from the perspective that life is a mirror to my inner experience, always guiding me and helping me deepen my intimacy with myself and life (and the collective). Which means: every moment, on some level, is an opportunity, and is happening for me, not to me. I didn’t wake up with this belief, though. It took a lot of experimenting with it before I finally agreed…yeah, life is reflecting me. This understanding had me questioning my influence. It had me wondering, what’s my role in all of this? My answering that question (while also remaining open to this eventually expanding) has been a result of collaborative learning. I’ve learned quite a bit, extracting the pieces that I resonate the most with, and connecting my own dots of understanding from some brilliant minds. Abraham Hicks, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Neville Goddard, and Florence Scovel Shinn, just to name a few. The most common thread connecting each teacher I come across is that we are the Source of our experience by way of our habitual feeling and thinking, consciously or unconsciously. We are individual expressions of this Infinite, unconditionally loving energy. Or as Dr. Joe puts it, our personality creates our personal reality. But let’s make this even more relatable. This is where my experimentation has led me home — to truly understanding and living in practice with this wisdom. We all have desires. We all want things. We all feel this call of expansion. Most of the time, that call comes in response to some dissatisfaction with what is or has been. That desire looks like the solution to the problem or the dissatisfaction we feel. But many of us loop in that cycle of dissatisfaction, never allowing ourselves to feel relief until we’ve gotten this thing or until this person has changed or until the reflection in the mirror is different. But if we are the Source of our experience…then that change in circumstance could never truly resolve our dissatisfaction. We could, however, give ourselves permission to feel relief based on the condition that this thing changes. Do you see what I’m saying here? We tell ourselves all the time, thereby denying our own influence, that it’s the circumstance or the lack of money or the absence of a lover that’s making us miserable. When really, it’s how we’re relating to this present moment that defines how we feel. And how we habitually feel and identify with the moment is what creates our state of being, which ripples out into our behavior, which ripples out into cause and effect (or as Dr. Joe says, causing an effect), which ripples out into observable experience within your external world. (If every part of your being is fighting me on this, then disengage. But if this is freeing you, turning something on in you, then really think about what this can change for you.) I mean, think about it — can you actually control how someone perceives you? Can you actually control what someone decides to do? Can you actually control time or nature or all the little pieces that make up life and allow it to function every moment of every day? Like, directly control it?? No. And if “reality” functions as a mirror, then what’s the only thing you actually need to control (or can control)? You. Your perception. The way you’re defining this moment. The way you’re focusing internally. And what does that influence? → How you feel. → The thoughts that become available to you. → The ideas you access. → The texture of the experiences you eventually have. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not completely dismissing the external world. We learn through experience (which is what led me to this understanding), but we create/align with new, preferable experiences through our conscious awareness. Our conscious participation with life, on some level. This perspective truly benefits those who ...