Sometimes the Spiritual Path Requires 20 Seconds of 'Insane' Courage

When you look back on your life, the trials the tribulations, the challenges and opportunities, you'll probably notice the really big occasions hung finely balanced on the feather edge of uncertainty. On one side is the abyss of some indescribable failure, and the other, some seemingly monumental achievement. These moments invite something deeper in ourselves. If we can face them with total acceptance and commitment, then we'll connect with the full flow of the soul, and it will carry us through like an unstoppable wave.

Facing the darkness

This moment of uncertainty, that we all face from time to time, I find is wonderfully encapsulated in a quote from a Matt Damon film, We Bought a Zoo:

"You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery, and I promise you, something great will come of it." Benjamin Mee

I have faced the density of the shadow in my life countless times. Through that, I've realised something fundamental at the base of the experiences, something that is common to each of these bone-crunching circumstances: The Shadow can only contract you if you allow it to happen.

In some way, whether it be fear or identification with the physicality of life, or the emotionality of needing comfort or security, the suppression can only work if we retract in the face of it. Essentially, if we close down in some key chakra point or other - shutting down the crown, for example. This, of itself, becomes self-defeating, because you no longer then have the spark of magic that can transform a situation in an instant.

We have to be prepared to hold the space open, especially in the deepest, darkest of moments. Because even there, divine alchemy can turn the tables and open opportunity. This is where 20 seconds of 'insane' courage' becomes instrumental.

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Dealing With Regret

How many times have you said to yourself 'If only'? "If only I'd done it this way, then that would have happened. If only I'd done that, then it would all have turned out alright."

It's our inner configuration of consciousness that creates situations in a particular way. Each of which, then becomes the essential reflection of what we're being and who we currently are. Regret is a toxic emotional/mental energy, that's highly debilitating of consciousness. What helps enormously to let go of regret, is to realise the situation needed to be created that way so as to see what we needed to see. AND, most importantly, because of the inner configuration at that time, it couldn't have gone any other way!

When you accept life as a journey of self-realisation and self-actualisation, and there's nothing else going on, then you come to realise all difficult and problematic situations needed to be that way so we could evolve and grow through them. They had to go that way, so that we could integrate a priceless lesson.

Just Let Go!

So a point arrived in my existence where I simply decided to let go. The struggle was not worth it any more. Even if it meant jumping off that cliff edge, not knowing if I could fly, I'd simply rather jump. Have you faced times in your life like that yet? A relationship that really needs to end, a crucial change of location or leaving a job that doesn't serve?

Such occasions eventually come knocking on our door.

Following the soul is just like this. It can begin softly, with surrender, yes. But certainly in my experience, true realignment is going to require us staring into the abyss of such uncertainty, and summoning something else too - sometimes that moment of 'insane' courage. Why? Because no matter how society conditions us to control life, nothing is ever certain to the soul. It is uncertainty that makes the soul what it is.

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The Sweet Spot Of Life

In these most challenging of moments, that's when we need to look for the courage. How can we best work with them?

We need to feel the tightening friction and let go into them, wherever they exist in the being. You'll know when those 20 seconds are inviting you. You'll feel it, emotionally, mentally, physically or karmically. You'll feel the tightening in your throat which makes your voice squeaky or hoarse, the stiffness in your muscles that makes your body awkward and ungainly or the tightness of your chest that makes your breathing shallow and rapid. Or esle sometimes people freeze and go into some ancient shock - which likely points to karma. These are the tell tale signs that you've stepped into the 20 seconds.

And in these moments, that's when we need to make a crucial decision: rather than spin into reaction, instead take ownership by surrendering deeply within, right down into the core of you. When the outside world is screaming for some kind of external reaction from you, what we really need to find is an authentic internal response, by applying these 5 steps...

1) Let go of the need for some particular outcome

2) Soften into the body, move, and let it relax

3) Expand the chest and deepen the breathing with calmness

4) Open through the chakras and into the Void of Presence

5) Let the sweet spot of authentic beingness create transformative possibility.

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The Return to Light

When all the pressure is on, soften, simply open and then the 20 seconds expands into an eternity. Look for the authentic feeling that wants to bubble up, the authentic expression of beingness. Let it well up from your base, wash through you and emanate from you. Let the 'swing' carry you so that you may hit the sweet spot of who you are...

In this moment, anything can happen. Anything becomes possible, because you've created the space for the Infinite to go to work. In this moment, you can truly change reality to something more aligned, in harmony with the Universe and the essence of who you are.

Wherever you are on the path, whatever difficulty or density you find yourself in, this becomes the 'return to light'...

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