When I came across the inside out understanding or the principles behind life, one of the main insights I had was that I really was not in control. I thought, as we all generally do, that it was up to me figure things out, to work hard to get to where I want to be, to use willpower to make things happen, to effort and to grind. We often think that if we don't do these things, then we will become a couch potato and we will go nowhere in life.
Learning about how the mind works, where our experience comes from and who we are -- as I share in the work that I do -- has shown me a much lighter way of being. I have (and I'm still noticing when I'm not) taken my hands off the wheel and allowed the deeper intelligence of life to guide me. Because, yes, there is something more than this personal mind of mine, guiding me, moving me, breathing me!
It's not up to me to make my heart beat. It's not up to me to make sure the food I eat gets digested. It's not up to me to heal a broken bone in my body. It's not up to me to grow a brand new toenail when one falls off (actually, this was a super cool process to witness!).
So then what? I see my role as taking the inspired action. Follow the nudge. Follow the feeling. Do what makes sense now. Do what is in front of me to do. When it feels difficult and like a struggle, that means I am in my head trying to control. And that is not the feeling to stay in. I let the system come back to balance and that is when I will see new and fresh. We are designed to come back to balance, it is our nature.
Think about this - your creative ideas come from a deeper place. Your shower insights come from a deeper place. The idea you get when you are making lunch comes from a deeper place.
Letting go of the busy mind helps us see more and more that the answers and solutions are not found there. But yet we think all day about the past and the future, creating stories and scenarios that are just not true! And if we are doing that, then really, we are never in the present moment ;)
There is an aliveness that has your back, allowing you to figure things out. It's not up to you.