13/08/2025
You don’t mine for gold at the surface.
To find those riches, you have to go down - into the darkness, into the depths, into the places that are hardest to go to.
Similarly, if you want to discover the riches in your own experiences and emotions - if you want the wealth that they offer - you have to go to the depths.
Sitting momentarily with a feeling before distracting yourself, putting it tidily away in a box, shoving it down, or jumping to meaning to avoid further feeling - those won’t shift anything. They might make the feeling go away for a while, but they won’t change anything deep down, because they don’t let you see what’s really going on underneath.
And looping on the initial feeling, staying stuck there in the first emotion that comes up - that also prevents you from going to the depths. From peeling back the layers to get to the underlying fears that have been activated.
When we only address the surface emotions, without giving ourselves time and space to FEEL everything that comes up - and then let that guide us down through the layers - we miss the real gold in there. We miss seeing what’s really going on for us, and we miss getting to the awareness that can truly shift the patterns that keep on playing out in our lives.
If you want real change, you have to go beyond the surface. Learn to sit with the discomfort, and be present with the difficult feelings. Confront the hard stuff, the cringeworthy patterns, the hidden beliefs and fears that are driving you. And you have to face your shadow…and learn to integrate it.