EGO TO SOUL

All that is being asked of me right now is to ground, to believe in my potential, to commit to my path, the path that's always been calling me, the path that i've always followed, but more than ever i'm being asked to trust in the timing, to trust in my own natural pace and be patient.

I know my path is one of heart, i'm constantly asked to lean in, to choose it over ego again and again

I havn't realised just how hard this can be, until i look around and see.

We idolise and pedestal the plan, the vision boards. But i often wonder with all this fixedness, do we create space for life? are we actually living? breathing? Is it all just a false sense of control and safety.

Are we so tense, so stressed, so fixed that we don't even see the opportunities appearing, life guiding us into an easier way. a more centred way, a more balanced way?

When we allow ourselves to not know what's coming, in not knowing what's next, to not having an entire picture before we trust things are always going to work out. We open to the infinite potential that exist in each moment.

I've never had an entire picture, well I did, once upon a time and this is what I found, I found we change, things change, what once felt like the ultimate dream no longer had the same pull, my consciousness expanded and I let it, I let it change.

NOW, I have trouble thinking I know what's best for my evolution, what if there is more and i'm limiting myself, how do I know what's best for me? My ego thinks it knows.. but when I go towards something, it's all heart, all feeling, all an inner knowing, I move one puzzle piece at a time, I believe in the picture forming all on it's own.

I've learnt through experience that plans lead to expectations, and expectations lead to so much mental noise, it's all up in the head. Our ego gets involved and when something in our body says "this doesn't feel right" we ignore it, we continue on, committed to the "plan" even when everything in us is screaming at us.

We do it for society, for external validation and gratification meanwhile inside their is an inner war raging.. We get sick, exhausted. There is a lack of ease.

I now focus on how I want to feel, I let that be what consumes me, I let that guide me, I let that show me, I let that evolve and unfold how it's meant to. Coming back to the feeling gives me the anchor, the centeredness within me, then it's all welcome to come to me however life sees fit, beyond ego needs and desires.

This is our work, this is our healing, to let the body choose, to let the body guide us, to trust in it so wholeheartedly that we move without the entire picture, without the plan, just one heart centered calling after the other. trusting, seeing how the right people, the right idea, the right timing comes to us, almost effortlessly.

It's like the wind pushing us downhill all of a sudden shifts direction and starts pushing us up uphill, lighting the load, letting each step feel aligned, intentional. It works with us, it's a true sense of being held and supported.

It's the path from ego to soul, mind to body, head to heart.

When we shift from an ego led life to a soul led life, we can fully embody our divine potential.

most of us never get to fully touch that because we're too busy trying to please our ego, pride getting in the way of what we truly crave, what we truly desire, what really calls to us, we remain in the inner war, the war between head and heart, never quite arriving anywhere..

Being able to dance with both is a special kind of mastery, letting your head and heart be each others ally, seeing when one is over ruling the other, discerning when what situations needs what from you.

but Mel, Where do i begin? How do i go from living from my mind, my ego, and start living from my soul, my heart?

I got you...

STEP 1 : You need to switch off . You step out of the noise. all the noise. all the rules. everything you've read. all of it. you put it all down, you switch it all off. You have to be able to sit with your self, in silence,

No podcast, no music, no background noise, just you and nature. start in nature, it grounds you twice as fast and helps empty out all you've picked up throughout the day up until that moment.

Emotions may come up, let them, your mind might spiral, just notice it. none of its right or wrong, it's about you just sitting with yourself. Creating a connection with yourself.

GO OUTSIDE.

GET COMFORTABLE.

CLOSE YOUR EYES.

FOCUS ON YOUR BREATH.

INHALE. EXHALE. - let it get slower, and deeper.

STEP 2: TUNE IN, into you. into your heart space, you speak to it like you would to someone you loved so deeply. It's like you've been on everyone else's radio station for years, and you're turning down the sound first, and you are shifting the dial to you, to your natural essence, to what longs to be felt, heard, seen, in you, from you. Let it all speak to you, just listen. How's it feeling? Where are you tight? What parts of your body need some breath? breathe into those spaces. Let it all open up. no need to force anything, just let it be.

FEEL INTO BEING FULLY SEEN IN THIS MOMENT.

FEEL INTO BEING LOVED FULLY.

FEEL INTO RECOGNIZING YOURSELF FOR WHO YOU ARE.

WITNESS YOURSELF IN THIS LOVING EMBRACE.

this love for yourself, it cuts through all the fog and the illusions of your ego.

this love, let it hug you. let it hold you. Whatever you're going through in life, you're equipped for it.

FEEL INTO THIS AWE AND RESPECT FOR YOURSELF.

If there is anything that feels like it needs to be turned down within, turn it down, if anything feels like it needs to be turned up, turn it up.

IMAGINE THIS LOVE SURROUNDING YOU, BREATHING IT IN AND ALL AROUND YOU, LET IT FLOW LIKE WARM HONEY WITHIN YOU AND ALL AROUND YOU.

You can ask yourself some reflective questions in this space if you feel called to but i'd encourage more sensing and feeling first -

• am I IN-joy on this path?

• am I being honest with myself?

• If no one was watching, what would I do? How would I move?

• What does my body need right now?

SIT IN THIS FOR ASLONG AS YOU NEED TO, REMEMBERING YOU CAN COME BACK TO THIS FEELING AT ANYTIME THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY.

No one else can do this for us, no one can hear us, see us, feel us, love us like we can for ourself.

This is where it all begins, this is the foundation, this needs to be strong, secure, stable within you.

Society will always be loud, it will always have demands, it will always be fast paced, it's up to you to create these moments, to create the slowness and the intentional movements as everyone else buzzes on past, let them, what you're building in the stillness, will overtake their running, every time.

Have faith in yourself, in your path.

All in good timing.

I love you.

Mel