You might think stress comes from money struggles, relationship issues, or the chaos of life.
But the real cause runs deeper: you’re living from the mind.
You get tangled in thoughts and the stories they spin. Identifying with the mind creates stress, anxiety, and a constant sense of lack.
You constantly seek to obtain what you want and eliminate what you don’t want.
The struggle to control yourself and life is what creates overwhelm, worry, and fear.
The way out?
Shifting to a different state of consciousness.
It’s moving from living in your thoughts to living from awareness.
Connecting with a deeper sense of self, beyond the thinking mind, brings peace, clarity, and relaxation.
You realize and experience that relaxation IS your true nature.
Even from awareness, discomfort still arises—but it no longer owns you.
Take this morning.
I sat down to write, and old, familiar thoughts surfaced:
😟Didn’t you just email an article to your subscribers? You shouldn’t send too many emails!
😟Oh, and not too few, either. Your new program starts at the end of the week, and you want people to know about it, right?
😟And make sure the article is uplifting, inspiring, and easy to understand! If people don’t know what you talk about, they won’t get any value from it. Plus, they won’t sign up for your program. So make sure the article is great!
Years ago, these thoughts ruled me.
That pressure would spiral into overwhelm—either freezing me or making me force every move.
Or I would force myself to act more and market the new program as if my life depended on it.
For a while, I tried to manage these thoughts. It helped—temporarily.
I learned to relax more and stress less.
But fears and stress would still cause massive discomfort and pressure. This still led to either paralysis or forced action, wiping out all feelings of relaxation and joy.
And I was still always looking for ways, tools, and techniques to fix, manage, heal, solve, or control my thoughts, (re)actions, and life’s situations.
Now, something different happens.
Negative thoughts still come. They just don’t grip me anymore.
I remain relaxed and calm as the inner storm passes by. Unease and fears pass more quickly, appear less frequently, and I feel increasingly relaxed and free, no matter what happens.
This deepening ease—no matter what’s happening—is available to you too.
All it takes is a shift in consciousness—from endless mental chatter to a state of awareness, your natural state of relaxation and calm.
Start here:
Instead of getting lost in thoughts, watch them instead.
Watch them come and go, like clouds pass by in the sky.
Let thoughts come and go without grabbing onto them. Watch how stress fades with them.
Try it!
Love,
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