What does that even mean? Go within. We hear this and yet some of us question the ‘How’ to do this. Is this too difficult? Do we need someone to break this down for us to really grasp the meaning of this phrase? Are we so caught up in the externals of this world, that we forget to even practice what this phrase means? All questions that don’t require much effort to really think about. Let me just share my own feelings about this phrase, and you can take it how you choose, if you choose to resonate with any of what I am getting ready to share.

I am always so caught up in listening to outside voices, and influences that I just follow the narrative that is being set for me. I don’t question it, I just do it, because that is what I feel that I am supposed to do. What is required of me is something that I have put on my Self when looking at things I need to do, or have to do. These are just unnecessary obligations I have taken on, thinking I am supposed to take them on. And I’ve been doing it for so long that I’ve grown accustomed to this routine habit. The conditioning is REAL. And we follow it to the “T,” because, well…what else are we supposed to do? This is the mindset, based on years, generations, centuries, of programming. Well, I don’t know about you: I have now grown quite tired of doing what I think I am SUPPOSED to do. It has become very old and very insignificant. Because those are influences outside of my own thoughts and feelings. Those are someone else’s or something else’s thoughts and feelings. They have been created to infiltrate my mindset so that I don’t think for my Self. Stop tuning in to the programming, and break the habit of conditioning that has been imposed upon you. 

So I tell my Self this now, because I am really over this conditioning pattern; as if I have no other choice; no other option. There are choices. There are options!

I’ve learned to stay to mySelf. No, I don’t mean that I completely shut out the world. I just take Self-Moments to unwind, to de-condition and reprogram. I go into hermit mode and I close my eyes, and just listen…to NOTHING. I think of this physical shell I am in; and I become confidently lost into this reality that was designed to keep me boxed in. I breathe in, and when I exhale, I take a big sigh out; as if I have actually released the negative, noisy voices shouting, screaming, demanding. I tune them out and I just let go..for this moment that I have embraced silence and solitude. Tune them out. Be still. Be present. Just breathe. It’ll be okay. You no longer have to listen to those ugly voices that are replaying toxic sounds that are bringing in all types of bad vibes. That is misery and I no longer want to experience misery. How can I experience peace? How can I experience bliss? How can I experience love?

If we wait too long, and we keep expecting something different to result from this programmed pattern of thinking, we will get stuck and just become lost in a matrix where death, fear, anger, and resentment drag around the walls of illusion…make-believe. 

I feel the artificial strands trying to choke my innocence. As I lay still, allowing the make-believe script to assault me over and over and over again, I start to become numb. That is no way to live, I tell myself. You are better than that. And you are NOT that.

Who told us to stop the noise, and to come into the room where silence and peace are floating around? Who invited us into the space of solitude where freedom is the host? Ahhhh, you see…those doors have been closed off, with a bunch of red tape; warning us to NEVER ENTER. If you enter, you may lose what you have, and therefore risk all that you’ve worked so hard for. Excuse me, but…what exactly do I have? Headaches from responsibilities of bills, taxes, deadlines, and duties of the J-O-B that locks me up for hours each day, slaving away…are all that I have. Is that peace? Is that living? Ask yoursaelf this. Has anyone ever asked you this? No? Then I urge you to ask your own Self this and really ponder…don’t think too much. You don’t have to. Because it’ll all make more sense when you shut out the noisy chatter that is trying to keep you sold on a fake ass dream that is nothing but lies, and empty promises. Sad truth, hard truth, and The Truth it is…

Now when I close my eyes, I smile. I see butterflies, horses, greenery, flowers, white sand, and warm rays from the golden sun. And I breathe it in because I know: this is where I desire to be. This is what I desire to have. And I have now discovered that I can have this. It’s up to me to make it happen. I’ve been told that I cannot have that, not until I have lived my life. WTF? What does that even mean? You tell me I can’t have that, until I have fully lived my life. So when I have fully lived my life, slaving away, doing what others, and what things have expected me to do, fulfilling temporary goals, building a life that is based on false realities…then I can have Nature’s Gifts? Hmmm? Ummmm, no, you have mistaken me for a well-oiled machine that obeys its masters at every command. And I am NOT that!

When I turn to myself, and my intuition, there is something magical that takes place. The world stops and I can pause the programming because it is not real. It’s only an illusion of what is real: LMAO! SO I challenge you to stop what you are doing, go to the park, go to the beach, go to the lake, go to the field, go to the place where quietude is available and accessible, and just BE. Get off your devices. Take off your shoes. Walk around and just listen to the silence. Listen to Mother Nature as she whispers sweet nothings, inviting you to eternal bliss. Feel what is inside of you: is there a feeling of joy, where you want to jump up and down and smile? Is there a feeling of patience, where you can just sit and be with Earth’s Treasures? Then do that. Who told you that you couldn’t? They lied. And they are not the ones that matter. It is what is inside of you that matters. And whatever that is inside of you that is itching to come out…let it out so that you can free yourself.

Silence is the answer. When there is silence, there is clarity. When I am calm, I can feel the wind brush against me, gently nudging me to continue with this patient sitting. There the answers come, and there the questioning retires all its inquiries. And I can just lift up my hands, palms open, and just receive what is coming to me. It’s just pure bliss, for being in this present moment. As I type this now, my eyes are closed, and I can feel the stillness of silence, patting me on the back and saying, “Nicely done.” “Keep it up, you are doing great.” “No need to stop because it feels different.” “You have everything you need.” “Just turn to yourself and connect within.” “The journey is unfolding, you just have to be patient and open yourself to it.”

These are the sounds and voices I hear when I turn myself into the Being that I am. When I turn off the noise that hurts my soul, I can feel the gentleness of Mother Nature’s sweet caresses, holding me, guiding me, comforting me as I go within. Softly, I move along the path of Nothingness. And I look forward to the silent chatter calling to me. There are no outside influences. There are no busy knocks at the door. There is just the open field of infinite possibilities, available 24/7. Ahhhh, that’s the stuff! There it is: the sweet sounds of peace, love, and bliss. I am bliss.

To go within is to stop the busy sounds calling all around you, giving you pain, irritation, and stress. To go within, you just let go of the false narratives that have been created for you. And you create the narratives that come from, and are inspired from within. Don’t say it’s too hard. If you call this in, then you invite in the difficulty that is simply unnecessary. Stop. Sit with yourself. Smile, and give yourself a hug. Be proud of the Being that you are. Give Thanks…for you are here. Be present. Show up for yourself. Pour into yourself by tuning out the external chitter chatter; and by tuning in to the internal whispers of truth softening your heart. Just go within, my dear friends…

Just Go Within…