The Karmic Spin Cycle
This e-mail has three parts:
- A piece of body or movement advice in video format
- An insight on life, business or relationships
- An update or reflection from my life
Part One — Body Advice
An issue we often run into when trying to grow, evolve, heal or generally feel better is… misclassifying the problem.
I’ve spent way too much time treating super basic issues as if they’re complex.
Example: getting overwhelmed and considering a career change when really, all you need is a nap, a hug and a cup of tea, and to reflect on some wins.
Rather than constantly grate ourselves against the harsh ideal of future perfection, we can slow down, rest, reorient and attack the problem from a new angle… though funnily enough, as I mentioned last week, the problem often dissolves when we’ve had a perspective shift.
Enter the RITUAL aka KRIYA.
A process of cleansing the being, starting with the body, to help us un-problem-ify our life early and often.
Remember, you’re just a complicated house plant.
Title: Start with The Body — Kriyas, Rituals and Purification
Watch time: 14 Minutes
Part Two — Insight
There are two ways to view life.
A problem to be solved.
A solution to be problem’d.
It may be the case that the things you’re striving for, hoping to achieve, are actually present in your life already, in ways that fly just under your radar because you aren’t paying enough attention.
And when we aren’t paying attention to the ways in which our desires have already manifested themselves, it becomes very difficult to bring about more of what we want… because we’re living with a filter of lack.
Now before you jump in with the old “yeah but I’m genuinely lacking something I really need”.
Ask yourself this: is focusing on that helping you solve that problem? If it is, great, keep going.
But if it’s not… consider that the lack lens may be obscuring your view of the solutions you already have, which are more accessible than you realise.
I can be as stubborn and inflexible as anyone.
Sometimes there’s an easy fix right under your nose.
An opportunity you haven’t thought to take advantage of; a contact in your phone you haven’t thought to ring; a chance to take your own advice, perhaps?
And sometimes the fix is realising that right now — right this second — right here — there is no real problem. All is well, and you’re just a bit stressed. If that’s the case, you need to distrust the part of yourself that wants to force through stress even harder. This is where the real work lies… in interrupting and shifting your patterns! It seems hard but its easier and often more enjoyable than what you’re used to doing by default.
My friend, you almost always have time for a cup of tea and 10 deep breaths focusing on every time you’ve ever made it through (always).
I’m not bullshitting you. Try it.
Then make it a lifestyle.
Part Three — A Reflection
I’m starting to see how my mind plays in loops, and those loops are accelerating to the point where I’m seeing their rhythmic nature.
Scarcity.
Stress.
Urgency.
Effort.
Blunted attempts to progress.
Prioritisation and determination to succeed.
“What the fuck”.
Tidy up loose ends in my life.
Boom. Little win.
Motivation.
Bigger win.
…and we’re flying again.
…and life is easy breezy and I can relax.
And I relax so much I get a little lackadaisical.
A bit complacent.
Scarcity.
“Ah, it’s the loop again. All good. I can recognise it without playing it out, and act the opposite way I normally do to correct the pendulum swing before it crashes the other way!”
Whereas before this felt like it happened in four year cycles, I’m now on two to four week cycles.
Only a few months ago, I was hardly aware of these cycles.
That’s pretty massive.
They’re speeding up more and more and more.
The centre-point is becoming more and more evident.
And I’m finding the insanity of the thinking mind more and more entertaining.
And beginning to see the cycles as creative material, rather than prisons.
What a life.
What a life….