David James Lees, Wirksworth (2025)

13/09/2025

✨️ NEW EPISODE: The Taoist Law of Attraction - Yi Tao, Qi Tao ✨️

💌 Our new Life Lesson explores the Taoist Law of Attraction and energy flow. Our intention (yi), when it arises from truth and authenticity, naturally guides and attracts the movement of positive life energy (qi). You'll discover how to get into this alignment and allow life to unfold with grace, ease, and flow, rather than resistance and control…

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12/09/2025

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✨ Imagined Roads ✨
You stand at the edge of your past, haunted by paths not taken, wondering if a different choice would have led to peace. But what if the true way forward isn’t found in rewriting yesterday, but in releasing it? Let the Tao show you how to trade regret for alignment, and walk on.

✨ The Next Step ✨
You are not the echoes of your past missteps, nor the shadow of old doubts whispering "you can't." When you meet the moment without criticism, comparison, or judgment, you awaken to the quiet power of choosing again, this time, in truth. This step could be the one that finally sets you free.

✨ Choosing Reality ✨
You’ve rehearsed it all, the argument, the rejection, the failure, so many times it feels like it already happened. But what if the real danger isn’t out there, but in the imagined worlds we surrender to? This journal post invites you to return to truth, to meet life as it is, and to rediscover the quiet power of 'choosing reality'.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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08/09/2025

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✨ Emotional Illusions ✨
You’ve been taught to trust your feelings, but what if they’re echoes of old fears? When emotions shout louder than truth, Taoism invites you to listen not to the noise, but to the silence behind it. In that stillness, your absolute clarity begins.

✨ Impossible Mirror ✨
You try to do everything right, yet it never feels enough. What if the problem isn’t you, but the impossible mirror your Inner Child holds up, demanding perfection? Taoist wisdom invites you to step back, release the blame, and lead from alignment instead of fear.

✨ Dream Echoes ✨
Do your dreams ever echo with emotions too vivid to ignore, leaving you wondering if they are signs, warnings, or simply fragments of confusion? In the quiet theatre of sleep, your Inner Child often stages its deepest fears, while your Shen gently whispers a truth waiting to be heard. This is not about decoding dreams, but discovering the hidden beliefs they unveil so that we may return to the path of wu wei and inner harmony.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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07/09/2025

✨ TAO DIALOGUES #10: The Quiet Power of Being Humble | Why Humility Is Your Strength

We've just published the tenth episode in the Tao Dialogues series, powerful yet gentle teachings about authenticity, spirituality and finding emotional balance and flow in everyday life, which expand upon popular posts in my Substack blog.

Have you ever thought that being humble makes you weak? Do you find yourself confused between setting healthy boundaries and being submissive? Or perhaps you wonder if humility and ambition can ever walk the same path?

Humility is often mistaken for invisibility in a world that values noise, boldness and assertion. In this Tao Dialogue, we uncover how humility isn’t about hiding but revealing our quiet strength. True humility in Taoism is not about shrinking ourselves or surrendering our values. It is about recognising our place in the vast rhythm of the Cosmos.

**LINK TO EPISODE + the original blog post are in the comments below**

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05/09/2025

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✨ Emotional Logic ✨
You may find yourself chasing safety through control, only to feel more anxious and tired. The Tao teaches that peace is not found in certainty, but in trusting the quiet rhythm of your Shen. What shifts when you see your emotions not as proof, but as gentle signals guiding you back to truth?

✨ The Soft Unlearning ✨
You may hold tightly to beliefs that once protected you, even as they now keep you small. Wu Wei Wisdom reminds you that letting go is not failure, but freedom, the soft unlearning that clears space for your Shen to shine. What opens when you loosen the grip of fear and walk with flow?

✨ Fear’s Hidden Flame ✨
You may see fear as a threat, yet it often carries the light you most need. Fear is not a barrier but a messenger, guiding you back to alignment with your Shen. What happens when you learn to walk with it, instead of against it?

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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01/09/2025

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✨ Silent Knowing ✨
You’ve heard the loud voices, doubt, fear, the urgent pull to act without pause. But what if the clearest guidance lies in the silence you’ve been taught to ignore? Rooted in Taoist wisdom and the quiet steadiness of wu wei, this journal invites you to listen, not to the noise, but to the knowing that has always lived within.

✨ The False Measure ✨
You’ve spent years trying to measure up against timelines, expectations, and everyone else’s highlight reels. But what if the ruler you’ve been using was never real? In this journal, we journey beyond the illusion of comparison and return to the quiet truth of who you already are.

✨ Broken Vow ✨
Have you ever caught yourself blaming others, or even yourself, over and over, as if the story must finally make sense if repeated enough times? Beneath that looping struggle lies an old promise your Inner Child once made, a 'Vow' to survive by carrying the weight of unfairness. Taoist wisdom reminds you that harmony is not found in blame but in release, and through wu wei. You can gently step off the 'Carousel of Despair' and return to balance.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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30/08/2025

NEW EPISODE: Everything Will Be OK | Guided Meditation on Learning to Trust

In our new meditation, we gently explore the roots of our need for control and rediscover that trust, not certainty, is our natural sanctuary. Together, we will reconnect with the Inner Child, offer it compassion, and remind ourselves that we are already whole, safe, and enough...

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The episode is also available on the Wu Wei Wisdom Podcast on APPLE PODCASTS or SPOTIFY, or wherever you get your podcasts!

29/08/2025

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✨ Worthiness Bank ✨
Have you ever believed your worth could rise or fall with someone else's opinion? What if the truth is simpler, deeper, that your value never needed a balance sheet to begin with? This journal invites you to step away from the ‘Worthiness Bank’ and return to your natural state of wholeness, guided by the wisdom of the Tao and the gentle truth of wu wei.

✨ Emotional Architects ✨
You’ve trusted your emotions as truth, only to find they can turn on you in an instant. What if that wave of anxiety, anger, or sadness isn’t revealing reality—but shaping it? In this journal, we explore how to reclaim authorship, cultivating an emotional life grounded in truth rather than turmoil.

✨ Serene Harmony ✨
Have your emotions ever stormed louder than your truth? In the gentle rhythm of the Tao, we discover that serenity isn’t about silence—it’s about listening. Let’s explore how grace and effortless effort guide us from overwhelm to inner clarity.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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26/08/2025

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✨ Unshakable Resolve ✨
You’ve learned to push through, but is it alignment or anxiety that drives you? What if true strength lies not in holding on, but in knowing when to let go? In this Journal, we’ll discover how gentle resolve, guided by Wu Wei, leads us home to our Shen.

✨ Sacred Ordinary ✨
Have you ever wondered if your need to be “better” is guiding you forward or pulling you further from who you truly are? In chasing specialness, we often outrun the quiet strength that was always within us. This is a journey back, not to greatness, but to grace.

✨ Now Unfolding ✨
You’ve spent so long replaying the past or bracing for the future, have you forgotten how to be here? When your Inner Child chases perfection or control, it pulls you from the only place peace can exist: the present moment.
This journal post invites you to step off the carousel of “what if” and into the quiet power of now.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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25/08/2025

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Stop Trying to Control Everything! How to Trust Life More ✨️

💌 Have you ever felt like you're clinging to control just to feel safe? What if that need wasn’t a flaw, but a message from deep within, from your Inner Child, quietly asking for reassurance? In our new Life Lesson, we explore how to guide your Inner Child from control to trust and why that journey is the key to lasting peace, resilience, and alignment with your true nature.

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22/08/2025

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✨Flawed and Free ✨
You carry the weight of “not enough” like a secret only you can hear. But what if your so-called flaws were not failures, but invitations, silent teachings from the Tao, guiding you back to your truth? This is where the true healing begins.

✨ Hidden Knowing ✨
You’ve always known the truth, but do you trust it? When doubt drowns out your instincts, and fear shouts over your wisdom, how do you hear the quiet voice within? This journey invites you to rediscover your hidden knowing, the calm certainty beneath the noise, always aligned with the Tao, patiently waiting to guide you home.

✨ The Inner Flame ✨
You’ve spent years trying to prove your worth by pleasing, performing, or perfecting, yet something inside you quietly asks, “What if I never needed to?” What if the safety you chase is already within you? What if your light was never lost, only hidden beneath beliefs you’ve outgrown? This journal post invites you to stop striving and start remembering.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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HERE: https://davidjameslees.substack.com/

18/08/2025

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✨ The Language of Emotions ✨
You’ve likely said it without thinking, “I’m just anxious” or “I can’t cope.” But what if these words weren’t descriptions, but decisions? What if the emotions you create aren't your truth, but your teachings? In this journey, we’ll learn to translate the language of emotions into the wisdom of alignment, guided by the Tao and the gentle clarity of wu wei.

✨ Radiant Unknown ✨
You’ve tried planning every outcome, hoping certainty would bring peace, yet the unease lingers. What if safety isn’t found in knowing the way, but in trusting yourself to meet whatever arises with calm, clarity, and the quiet strength of wu wei?

✨ Reflected Beliefs ✨
You’ve grown, yet some old doubts still echo. Why? Could it be you’re living today through beliefs borrowed from yesterday? In this gentle unfolding, we’ll explore how to transform those reflections into clarity and reclaim the freedom to believe what is true now.

✨PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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