When we encounter the inner psychological pressure we know as stress,
we are invited to ask the question
What aspect of my self identity is insecure and threatened?
Often, staying with this question will begin to reveal what the self wants so desperately to not accept.
What a wonderful opportunity to see
what is false in us,
what we are covering over,
what we are hiding from.
This inquiry and the encounters that arise are where we can choose
to revise our relationship with life itself,
where we can lay down the futility
held in our inner conflict,
and fuel a new awareness,
a deeper, truer vulnerability,
a deeper presence,
a connected living,
holding ourselves directly in the stream,
our source for truth and freedom.
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As we bring consistency and continuity to this practice
as a way of living in intimate relationship with all that is,
we find that our inner conflict and separation begins to dissolve
and we can truly listen,
can truly breathe in life
and awaken a presence
free of judgment,
grateful for laying down its self-imposed burdens.
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