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Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
A Hypnotherapist On...Letting Life Lead Us | Mini Magic with Jessica Porter
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So the other day I was reading this groovy book and there was a quote about the nine months that we spend in utero. And every single one of us spent those hopefully nine months in utero. And the quote is the primary characteristic of this nine month journey is what I call surrender. There was nothing for us to do. Somehow our source of being, in its infinite wisdom, was going to do it all. We and our birth mother allowed the great Dao to do what it does. The truth is that we were doing nothing. We were simply being done, unquote. I love that, I love that, I love that, I love that. And I'll tell you why. I'm not very good at willing my way to things. You know, I have about three days of willpower in me and that's about it. And weirdly, it's not even that my willpower wanes on day four. It's like I wake up and completely forgot that I even had a goal in the first place. It's as if my conscious mind and its executive function designed to oversee and control things, just isn't that strong. So intuitively I've defaulted to other more passive ways of approaching life. Because if my conscious mind wasn't going to power this car, I had to find a deeper engine. And that's good because it caused me to learn about and work with my subconscious mind. And it's been a very interesting experience. I've had to surrender some of my desires, or what I thought were my desires, and feel out where the big energy was, what did I really want, where was the energy really flowing. And instead of muscling my way to where I thought I wanted to go, the journey became about releasing obstacles that I had in my own way, letting open the floodgates and the dams that I've installed against the bigger energies of life. And in that respect, I've learned what that quote was saying. Life does me. I don't do life, life does me. So it was a real revelation to hear someone else say it. I felt really relieved and like I hadn't had this sort of cop out existence. Now you may have a very strong conscious mind and feel very confident about steering your life. And that's great, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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But for those of us who have
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discovered that muscling our way to what we want or how we want to feel doesn't always work, let's practice some relaxation yet again and let life do us.
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