Some of you might remember that a few years ago (we're talking pre-Daily Reminders website here) I used to welcome new subscribers to my mailing list with an email course.
It was great, but unfortunately it became one of the casualties of swapping platforms, and a while ago someone asked me if I'd ever consider bringing it back.
At the time, the answer was that I had no plans to do so, but plans are all mind-created, aren't they, and here in reality, it turns out that it is indeed coming back, bigger and better!
🙌🏻
I've spent the last few weeks beavering away here at my computer, revisiting all the materials in light of how I see things these days, re-editing all the videos, cross-referencing all the content against relevant Daily Reminders and essentially creating a kick-ass, 8-part, mini-course that will live permanently on the website, instead of disappearing in people's inboxes.
It's the sort of thing I wish I could have experienced myself, because it takes you on a journey straight to the heart of the Innate Health understanding, in simple, but powerful, bite-sized chunks.
An insight for the ages
Anyway, digression aside, there's one lesson I've just been working on that looks specifically at the past – not just letting go of past hurts, but how to avoid getting stuck in previous patterns of behaviour, too.
And there's a quote I've found for it that absolutely floored me when I first came across it. I was like, Say whaaaaat?!?!
But then I slowed down to examine it from an Innate Health perspective and I realised that Yes, if we're looking at the fundamental principles behind how we experience life, this must be true.
It's from Steve Chandler's book, Right Now, in which he states, simply:
“The past does not create the present…
The present is what creates the past.”
[And that sound you can hear is my brain actually exploding 🤯]
Because that just seems so wrong, doesn't it?! Surely it's our past that's creating our present experience? Isn't that what our conditioning and our experience is?
But then we have to wrestle that world view into the natural order of things, as expressed in these two 🔑 Key Messages of mine:
Your felt experience of life is only EVER happening NOW
And:
We live in the feeling of a Thought-created perceptual reality
…and realisation dawns that everything we experience is Now, and everything is a creation of Thought, ergo: “The present is what creates the past.”
🤷🏻
Freedom!
As far as implications go, in the book, Steve takes it in the direction of productivity and creation and getting hung up on past failures, when he concludes:
“You ask about your past patterns and it's my experience that your patterns don't have to matter.”
(Not “don't matter,” you'll note, but “don't have to matter” – which is different.)
Or, to put it another way, in the words of Alan Watts:
“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were, five minutes ago” ~ Alan Watts
Which is ridiculously freeing to see.
Have yourself a light-hearted, story-free weekend.
❣️
Giles
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