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Tegan Lindsey Mentoring, Brisbane (2026)

30/12/2025

Happiness is often blocked not by circumstance but by clinging, expectation, or the need for things to be a certain way. Letting go allows natural fulfilment, love, and joy to emerge.

26/12/2025

Allowing an experience doesn’t mean liking it or keeping it. It means removing the psychological struggle so awareness can meet reality directly. When the struggle drops, clarity naturally increases, and seeing clearly precedes aligned action.

From here, action isn’t compulsive or defensive. It’s responsive. And responses that arise from clarity tend to be more compassionate, measured, and life-affirming, because they aren’t driven by fear, identity protection, or unconscious habit.

But I want to be clear, allowance is not passivity. This is a crucial distinction. Presence ends the inner resistance, not outer discernment. In fact, it’s what makes discernment possible. You can leave, change, speak up, or set boundaries, but without the distortion of inner conflict.

23/12/2025

A recent experience I had followed this pathway:

Extreme anger and frustration arose, acting as an alarm bell that I had a choice, to continue entertaining my resentment and resistance, or to surrender my position, thoughts, beliefs, judgements, desire to get my point across etc. I chose surrender.

Immediately, a sense of peace and quiet filled my mind, serenity, if you will. That was followed by 'mind-less' observation, which transitioned into awe at the infinite spectrum of possibility unfolding in that moment. From there came the recognition that I was fulfilling my purpose, and suddenly a sense of fulfilment and wholeness flooded me, bringing intense joy. That joy built into bliss, which flowed into profound happiness, ultimately giving rise to a deep, expansive love.

I no longer cared about the trigger that sparked my frustration, or the impact it might have, or who deserved what, or getting my point across. I simply wanted to hold onto those feelings of serenity, awe, fulfilment, wholeness, joy, bliss, happiness, and unwavering love. In that moment, nothing else mattered. And I knew this was a choice I could make moving forward, the only thing that could stand in the way was clinging to my mind and resisting surrender in the moment.

22/12/2025

Ignorance, avoidnace, and attachment are the three roadblocks to living from awareness. Enhancing awareness, living mindfully, and being aware are the map to moving beyond these blocks.

18/12/2025

Resistance adds tension to an experience, it’s the inner “no” that tightens the body and mind around what’s already happening. That tension is what keeps us stuck or attached.

Presence allows an experience to be exactly as it is, without trying to escape it or fix it. From presence, we silence the chatter of the mind so we may see the situation clearly from awareness itself. Allowing reality to exist the way it is isn’t giving in or giving up. It’s stopping the inner turbulence long enough to see clearly, and from that clarity, choosing a response grounded in wisdom rather than fear, egoic desire, or habitual reaction.

You’ll know you’re functioning from presence because observation of the experience will be followed by aligned action (confident compassionate action that is naturally loving toward yourself, others, and the planet).

It may feel counterintuitive at first, especially to the ego, but peace begins the moment we stop resisting what is.

18/12/2025

I was listening to one of The Diary of a CEO podcasts the other day, and the guest was a monk who was explaining how each time you get distracted during meditation, it’s actually wonderful, because you then notice that you’ve drifted away… and that practice of noticing, returning to conscious presence, is what it’s all about.

So instead of feeling frustrated when the mind wonders during mediation, celebrate that you’ve just returned to presence because that’s the whole idea 😉

15/12/2025

Intellectual understanding ≠ embodied knowing

I spent years reading about wholeness, trying to understand it conceptually and integrate it on an intellectual level. What I learned, however, is that intellectual understanding can point the way and has value, but it’s not the destination. Lived experience is where understanding becomes real.

Once something is lived, even briefly, it can permanently shift your internal reference point. It gives you a much deeper anchor to hold onto when things become turbulent. Because now you’re no longer chasing an idea. Instead, you’re relating to something you’ve directly experienced. Something you’ve known and felt.

PS thanks for your patience with the rain belting down that compromised the sound ⛈️

15/12/2025

One of the biggest challenges of the inward journey is that we’ve built our lives around striving for things outside of us, but over time, we don’t just chase these things, we become reliant on them.

So the idea of not striving can feel scary. Like everything might fall apart. But that fear comes from the version of you that learned it had to strive in order to be safe.

As kids, most of us weren’t taught that it was okay to just be ourselves. We learned how to adapt, and fit in the best we could, in order to be loved, to belong, and be accepted. And because our survival once depended on others, that pattern stuck.

So of course it feels uncomfortable to put down the playbook you’ve been using your whole life. The mind says, better the devil you know than the one you don’t.

But the inward journey isn’t about giving up your life. It’s about discovering who you are beneath all the surface-level stuff. And when you find that, things can come and go from your experience, but your sense of peace within remains unshaken.

12/12/2025

Presence isn’t something you “create.” It’s something you return to the moment you notice you’ve left it. That moment of recognition is the doorway.

Before the recognition, you are the habit. After the recognition, you are the awareness noticing the habit. And the noticing is already presence.

11/12/2025

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11/12/2025

There are two kinds of happiness, but only one is sustainable. Which are you working toward?

The first is acquired happiness. This is the happiness we get from things outside ourselves: other people, possessions, achievements, or favourable circumstances.

We search for happiness outside ourselves when we’re functioning from our egoic sense of self, the part of us that believes we’re incomplete or lacking in some way. Most of the time we don’t consciously think this. It’s a belief system wired into the brain through our early environment and the experiences we lived through long before we knew what was happening.

The second is innate happiness. This is the happiness that emerges when we’re no longer functioning from the stories of the ego and we reconnect with our true nature, the part of us that knows our wholeness. You no longer strive for things outside of you, because you are content. People, objects and circumstances can still come and go from your life, but you no longer apply the same meaning to them as you once did. Your sense of self worth and inner peace remain unchanged.

The true self experiences peace of mind, awe at infinite possibility, clarity of purpose, fulfilment from living that purpose, and a deep sense of joy. And when peace, awe, clarity, fulfilment and joy fill you, something beautiful happens, happiness stops being something you chase and becomes something that pours out of you as an uncontainable desire to love.

So why do we spend so much of our life looking for happiness outside ourselves? If we already possess this deep, expansive bliss, why don’t we feel it?

Because our self-image, the identity shaped by conditioning, comparison and early experiences, is filled with the belief that who we are is not okay, not enough, or not desirable unless… we achieve more, look a certain way, someone approves of us, and so on.

Once those beliefs take root, we spend our lives trying to acquire the people, objects or circumstances we think will complete that sentence. And unless we learn how to change our perception of self, unless we step out from behind the limitations of that conditioned state of consciousness, we’ll always carry a sense of inner lack. We’ll always feel like part of us has value and part of us is somehow deficient.

If we truly want to be happy, it’s not about adding more to our lives, it’s about shifting the state of consciousness we’re operating from as we move through the world.

10/12/2025

When we are completely enmeshed with our egoic sense of self, life feels as though it’s happening to us, and our reactions arise from habit rather than choice.

But as we begin to discover who we are beneath the ego, we realise the mind has often been the true source of our suffering and not the circumstances themselves. It is our interpretations, our stories, our resistance, and our conditioned responses that create the struggle.

When we free ourselves from egoic functioning, challenges don’t magically disappear, but our relationship with them transforms. We meet life with greater stillness, clarity, and presence and we experience peace of mind, awe of life, fulfilment, joy and love.

From this point forward, the only thing that ever gets in our way is slipping back into the unconscious mind.

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