22/04/2023
“You have to be willing to swallow the poison.
There is survival-rooted programming at our core that tells us all pain is bad. At the deepest level, we are programmed to avoid it at all costs. This sub-routine is the second obstacle to change. The first is to be willing to hear the lie, and the second is that all pain should be avoided at every level. Consciously and unconsciously.
We are at the threshold. I believe that individually and collectively. My teachers talk about the fractal universe and how everything is patterns. You see it everywhere. We are globally experiencing a rapid escalation to the velocity of change.
You feel in individually. It shows up as a feeling of doom and gloom, overshadowing whatever you hold dear at that moment. Like the swimmer in the ocean that can feel something massive rising out of the deep, your imagination grips you in an “in-theater” experience of worry.
Many will numb the pain until they can’t. Many will project the pain, resisting, which causes the suffering to intensify. But eventually, we must learn to swallow the poison. Only then will we realize the medicine that sits on the other side.
You. You are the medicine. You are what is coming through the deep. Our deepest fear isn’t inadequacy; it is the fear of being powerful beyond measure. This is important to understand now more than ever. You are the oak tree pushing through the soil. You are the 🍎 sent to become the 🌲.”
-Steven Twohig Snr