David James Lees, Wirksworth (2026)

06/02/2026

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✨Soaring Without Chains✨
You cling to the illusion of perfect safety, whispering to yourself that only when fears fade, and risks vanish, can you truly spread your wings and soar. Yet the Tao whispers back, inviting you into wu wei, where trust in your inner Shen replaces chains of control. Imagine releasing that grip, discovering freedom not in certainty, but in the gentle rhythm of life unfolding, ready to carry you higher.

✨Beyond the Applause✨
The silence after the applause feels heavier than the cheers ever did, leaving a quiet ache where purpose once stood firm. Yet Taoist wisdom and the gentle art of Wu Wei whisper that true worth was never tied to the performance, it's the steady glow of your Shen, already present, ready to rise when striving falls away. Step into this remembering, where emptiness softens into effortless belonging.

✨Unshakeable Light✨
You’ve spent so long trying to earn a seat at the table, wondering if you’ve done enough to finally be worthy of the space you take up. But like a diamond hidden under layers of dust, your value doesn’t come from the polishing; it comes from the unshakeable light that has been glowing within you all along.

✨PLUS… Moments of Inspiration✨

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02/02/2026

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✨The Middle Is Enough✨
You have spent so long climbing emotional ladders to prove your worth, only to find the ground shifting beneath you. By letting go of the need to chase highs or outrun fears, you can finally rest in the quiet power of your true centre. Step into the flow of wu wei, where you no longer have to earn your place, because here, in the middle, you have always been enough.

✨Unlearning the Lie✨
You feel that ache knowing a thought isn't true, yet your heart still clings to it like a river holding onto its bends. The ancient wisdom whispers that peace isn't found by wrestling with emotions, but by following their quiet current back to where they began. What if your next breath could be the gentle turning point where you finally trust your own truth?

✨The Broken Compass✨
When your familiar emotional compass shatters in silence, you stand at a sacred threshold where the Tao whispers new possibilities. In this gentle unravelling, discover how the unknown becomes not a void to fear, but the fertile ground where Shen-led clarity begins to bloom.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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31/01/2026

TAO DIALOGUES #17: Stillness Before Action: Ending Procrastination Without Force

In our new Tao Dialogues episode, we explore the stillness before action — a Taoist approach to ending procrastination and perfectionism without force, pressure, or self-criticism.

Rather than pushing yourself forward, this teaching invites you inward — to the sacred pause where Shen (inner wisdom and clarity) aligns and true action is born.

We uncover how procrastination often arises from the Inner Child’s need for safety, not a lack of discipline, and how wu wei (effortless effort) restores natural momentum.

You’ll learn how to:

- Stop fighting procrastination and listen to its message
- Release perfectionism without lowering your standards
- Use stillness as preparation, not avoidance
- Take aligned action that flows from truth, not fear

This is not about forcing yourself to begin. It’s about beginning from alignment.

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30/01/2026

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The Mirror Within
You’ve been caught in life’s noise, convinced the storm outside must be real. What if it is not the storm, but the mirror within that is cloudy? This is an invitation to return to stillness and to see clearly again.

Pendulum Truth
Beyond the swing of your emotional pendulum, find stillness in the quiet centre of the middle path. Here, your Shen spirit awaits, ready to reshape your world into a gentle and lasting balance.

Emotional Logic
You may 'feel' as though your emotions are absolute truths, but often they are just your Inner Child’s old survival stories spinning on a "Carousel of Despair." By tracing these feelings back to the beliefs that created them, you can stop reacting to the storm and start living from the quiet, steady flow of your Shen.

PLUS… Moments of Inspiration

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29/01/2026

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✨The Unwritten Name✨
You’ve spent years trying to earn what was never missing. But what if your true worth was never meant to be proven, only remembered? This journey leads you back to the quiet place within where your value has always lived.

✨Quiet Authority✨
You may have trusted your emotions to lead, believing they were protecting you. But what if they were never meant to command your life, only to inform it? This is an invitation to rediscover the quiet authority that has always lived within you.

✨Emotional Illusions✨
When your emotions scream with an urgency that feels like survival, you might mistake that loud noise for your inner truth. By following the "Golden Thread Process" back to your quiet Shen, you can stop reacting to the illusions of fear and begin to flow with the effortless clarity of Wu Wei.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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24/01/2026

NEW EPISODE: Powerful Guided Meditation for Connecting to Your Wise Inner Guide

In our new guided meditation, we gently reconnect with your wise inner guide (Shen) — the quiet, steady voice of inner truth beneath self-doubt, comparison, and inherited conditioning.

Through breath, stillness, and compassionate awareness, this practice helps you recognise the difference between the Inner Child’s fearful voice and your authentic inner knowing.

Rooted in Taoist wisdom and wu wei (effortless effort), it supports Inner Child healing, emotional clarity, and living with greater integrity and flow. This meditation is for anyone seeking calm, alignment, and trust in their own inner guidance. This is a remembering — not a fixing.

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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!

23/01/2026

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✨ The Unclenched Hand ✨
What if the strength of your grip is what truly blocks the flow? A gentle Taoist wisdom suggests that abundance is not found in the clenched fist, but in the grace of an unclenched hand.

✨ Beyond the Reaction ✨
Have you ever watched yourself react with surprise, wondering why your emotions sometimes speak louder than your wisdom? There exists a sacred space between what triggers you and how you respond, a space where your Inner Child's fear can meet your Shen's knowing, and where true transformation begins not by suppressing, but by understanding the whispers beneath the storm.

✨ The Carousel Stops Here ✨
Sometimes you feel yourself spinning in circles, caught by the echo of an old wound. But what if the key to freedom isn't in the memory of the pain, but in the wisdom it left behind?

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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19/01/2026

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✨ Borrowed Happiness ✨
Like a river finding its natural course, you'll discover joy flowing from within rather than borrowed from distant shores. The wisdom of emptiness awaits your gentle return to what has always been present; happiness is yours to create.

✨ Taming the Monkey Mind ✨
Like a weary traveller finding rest, you'll discover that stillness isn't found by silencing the monkey, but by becoming the quiet branch it rests upon. In the gentle space between thoughts, your true wisdom whispers, inviting you home to the calm that has always been yours.

✨ Emotional Momentum ✨
Like a river finding its true course, you'll learn to trace each feeling back to its quiet source, not by fighting the current, but by understanding its beginning. In the space between belief and response, you discover the gentle power to choose a new direction, returning to the calm centre that has always been your home.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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17/01/2026

✨️ NEW EPISODE: Whose Voice Are You Living By? Connecting to Your Wise Inner Guide

💌 Do you know whose voice is guiding your decisions?

In our new Life Lesson, we explore how the Inner Child absorbs the beliefs, expectations, and emotional rules of authority figures — and how those inherited voices can quietly shape our adult lives.

Through Taoist wisdom, we learn how to distinguish conditioned thinking from our true inner knowing and wise inner guide, reconnect with our inherent worth, and gently return to authenticity, clarity, and alignment.

This is an invitation to stop living by inherited rules and begin trusting the quiet truth within.

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17/01/2026

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✨ Quiet Brilliance ✨
When your Inner Child whispers that you're not enough, do you believe it? Beneath those old stories lies a truth as steady as the Tao itself: your worth was never earned, only forgotten. This path of wu wei invites you to remember the quiet brilliance that has been yours from the beginning.

✨ Between the Poles ✨
When you're exhausted from trying to control life's unpredictable tides, do you hear the blame that follows? Between the noise of control and the silence of surrender lies a sacred still point, the Tao calls wu wei. Your journey is not to win this battle, but to remember the peace that already lives between the poles.

✨ Weightless Certainty ✨
When you cling to certainty as if it were a shield, do you feel its weight instead of its safety? The Tao offers a 'Weightless Certainty' not in controlling the future, but in learning to float within its beautiful uncertainty.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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10/01/2026

TAO DIALOGUES #16 - The Inner Child's Vow: ''Something Is Wrong With Me!''

In our new episode of Tao Dialogues, we explore The Inner Child’s vow — an unconscious belief formed in childhood that can create self-doubt, anxiety, and self-sabotage, even when life is going well.

Through Taoist wisdom, wu wei (effortless effort), and Shen spirituality, we gently uncover how this survival vow shaped our behaviour, and how it can be dissolved without force, self-criticism, or confrontation.

This dialogue is for anyone ready to release old conditioning, trust life again, and return to alignment, flow, and authenticity.

Nothing within you is broken. This is a return — not a repair.

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

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09/01/2026

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✨Rooted Authenticity ✨
Do you catch yourself shrinking to fit in, dimming your light to belong? What if the worth you've been chasing was never lost, just buried beneath borrowed beliefs? This journal post invites you to uncover your true value and return to the effortless flow of Shen.

✨ The Choice to Remain ✨
Are you always waiting for the right time, but deep down, the silence weighs more heavily each day? Could it be that in choosing nothing, you've already chosen? This journal post invites you to meet that quiet moment with truth, and let wu wei show you a softer, stronger way to move.

✨ Soft Power ✨
Have you been told to toughen up, to stop taking things so personally, but what if your sensitivity is not a flaw, but your finest strength? This journal post invites you to stop apologising for your softness and start seeing it as the spiritual intelligence it truly is.

✨ PLUS… Moments of Inspiration ✨

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