Re-membering is the Only Way

The nightmares, the stress… it’s no joke. When disturbance and confusion is present, it can be debilitating and scary. It can also be exhausting. As “spiritual athletes” or explorers, it can be head-shaking. “I can’t believe I’m in this again. I thought I had woken up and gone past this.” But these realities of fear and confusion, they come and go for everyone, no matter how enlightened or expert you are in surfing consciousness.

As you grow in your spiritual guidance and somatic and intuitive intelligence, you come to see similar flags or guideposts when you careen yet again into patches of confusion, doubt, delusion. Those same familiar feelings in the body. Those same old stories. They come around again and again to help you strengthen your ability to be in union with the Divine, with Spirit, with yourself, even to strengthen and deepen these bonds as the torrents and torments come through.

The anxiety and fear that’s in the body can be quite awful. You poor body contracts or shakes or goes numb or foggy. You know that it will pass and you know that LOOKING FOR A CAUSE ONLY CAUSES MORE SUFFERING. Was it this? Was it that? Was it my family? My habits? That thing that person said to me? It doesn’t matter. The “why” does not matter in this moment.

RE-MEMBERING IS THE ONLY WAY

You re-member somewhere in your body that there is no enemy.

You re-member (vaguely?) what clarity feels like? It’s signature? How it was?

You bring willingness to be in the body and to re-member the Beloved.

You re-member that the timing is not in your control but the stewardship is.

Maybe you can even say aloud what the body feels, what the body wants. Maybe you can even speak the TRUTH of who you are in the face of this wackjob, fucked up reality that has floated through like a fart in an elevator as you wait for the doors to open again.

Re-membering does not change the fear, dread, anxiety, confusion directly. Instead, it widens, deepens, expands the space inside of which it can be experienced. Because

YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS
YOU ARE NOT THIS DELUSION
THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE

What is the truth of who you are?

Tune in. Listen inside your body. (DO THIS NOW.) There it is. You re-member. Who I am is…