When you are surrendering to the divine, you are learning to trust in a higher power. You are learning that the mind does not need to have everything figured out. It should figure out what it can, but that will never be everything. Neither would it be desirable.
Do you want a life where everything is known? Would that be exciting?
Tony Robbins says that uncertainty is a human need, and he is right.
That is why we don’t offer predictions of the future. It would take the thrill of life away.
And the future is in an undetermined state of possibility anyway. So at best, a psychic prediction is probabilistic rather than deterministic. But this is a tangent…
Our point is this: Sometimes you have to jump off the cliff and trust there is water even when you can’t see it.
Not actually cliffs, but metaphorical ones.
That means showing up to teach a workshop and trusting that the teaching will come to you and through you.
The work is not in preparing the teaching ahead of time intellectually, the work is everything you have done up to this point to allow teaching to flow through you. To be a vehicle for divine expression.
It is more of an improvisation than a rehearsed routine or choreography.
Well that is what we are teaching at this time. It is not to make anything else wrong.
We are not teaching you to memorize and regurgitate facts, we are teaching you on another level. We are teaching you how to connect to the deep sense of knowing and wisdom within yourself.
This is what permeates everything that you call Art.
Art is not repetition. You can learn how to paint and copy another painting to the degree that it is indistinguishable from the original to all but a few experts. That is not art. That may be skill, or excellence, but not art.
Art is original. Art is creative. Art is something that only you can do. Art divides the audience. Not everyone likes it.
The cultivation of the skill, the technique, of playing an instrument or painting or dancing is the process of building a vehicle in order to be able to create art. Which is largely a process of receiving and transmitting.
It comes from the Depth of your Being, from your Soul, from the Divine as a Whole. It is an expression of yourself as God. It is creative, as you are a creation.
So you learn, you practice, you drill, you rehearse, you get your blockages out of the way, so that you can show up in the moment and receive, and transmit. So that you can trust that it can happen.
This is a process of both addition and subtraction, of learning and unlearning.
You learn how to write, how to move your body, how to play the piano. And you unlearn the patterns that stand in your way. The limiting beliefs. “This is too hard.” “I will never be as good as _____.” “I can’t make a living with this.”
You release the blockages that either stop or distort the transmission from coming through.
You get your thinking out of the way.
You cannot think your way through creating art in the moment.
Thinking is great in leading up to it. It informs the process of learning. What to learn, how to learn, what and how to practice.
Thinking is useful when it is needed, and paralyzing when it is not.
A Formula 1 driver cannot think in a race, it’s just too fast. You cannot think your way through a dance. At least not a dance that is your fullest expression.
There are countless stories of artists and athletes who lost their mojo, not because they lacked skill but because they got stuck in their thinking.
Again, the mind, the intellect, the analytical mind, is a great tool, but no tool works all of the time.
The big picture issue is that humans have become addicted to thinking. That is a strong word, and we use it intentionally.
An addiction is a behavior that you cannot stop doing despite it causing you harm.
An addiction is not a thing, it is your relationship to a thing.
Cocaine is not an addiction. Coffee is not an addiction. But your relationship to anything can be addictive.
It is the same with thinking.
Thinking is not bad, but thinking when you don’t need to can be.
Coffee is not bad, but drinking so much coffee that it makes you anxious can be.
And the issue is that people are people are addicted to negative thinking. “I am not good enough.” “I am not attractive enough.” “I am not smart enough.”
Telling yourself that you are not lovable over and over and over is harmful and if you continue doing it, you are by definition addicted to harmful thinking. And many aren’t even aware of it.
So the process of waking up is about becoming aware of what happens within you, in a loving, gentle way, so that you can let go of the patterns that do not serve you. And it can only happen with some distance.
When you believe that you are that voice in your head, it is impossible to let it go. But when you realize that you are separate from it, it is simple.
It is like letting go of an old car that doesn’t serve you because it breaks down all the time. You know you are not your car. You have a car.
It is the same with your mind. You are not your mind. You have a mind. You are the Being that is aware of your mind.
It is the same with your body. You have limbs. If one of them got severed in an accident, you would still be there, aware of not having that limb.
That is the essence of awakening.