💫 Accept What’s Arising ~ The End of Resistance 💫
We begin in a red-rock frame of mind—wisdom in the desert, where joy isn’t about pasting a smile over discomfort but about welcoming whatever arises and letting it move.
The central move is radical and simple: accept your internal state, not the world’s shifting scenes. You don’t have to like your job, your relationship pattern, or your plate of beans to be at peace. You only have to stop arguing with the feeling that’s already here.
When you stop insisting the circumstance must change first, the energy that keeps replaying similar scenes starts to loosen. This is not passivity—it’s the end of resistance. A soft, intelligent presence emerges—one that allows real change to flow without force.
🌾 Beneath It All: The Spell of Scarcity
Underneath most struggles sits a root belief in scarcity.
Scarcity whispers: I need this job, this partner, this status to be safe.
Then the mind gathers evidence—bills, timelines, people who mirror our fear.
We propose a different experiment:
Feel the belief’s sensation before following its story.
Every thought has a felt signature and an accompanying breath pattern. Track that sensation gently. Let the breath lengthen. Name the belief—There’s not enough. I’ll be abandoned. I’m aging and falling behind.
Let its bodily echo be fully known. In that contact, awareness intersects the present moment, and the chain of belief → sensation → thought → projection loosens. You do not need to solve circumstances from the surface; you only need to stop giving frightened thoughts the job of telling you what is real.
💛 Forgiveness as Reinterpretation
Forgiveness here isn’t moral bookkeeping—it’s a precise shift of interpretation.
A thought arises: God is out there. I am alone. This person is the problem.
You notice the tension it creates.
With sincerity, you ask for a different interpretation and wait for a feeling of lightness—or even laughter. That laughter is recognition: the thought had no substance without your consent.
This is how miracles land in ordinary moments. They re-establish that you are dreaming—that none of the threat is actual—and that peace is available now.
The “holy instant” isn’t a trick to eliminate discomfort; it’s a willingness to stand in the purifying fire of sensation without justifying it with stories. When stories lose fuel, the body softens, the breath opens, and action—if any—becomes natural and kind.
🤍 Relationships as a Dojo of Seeing
Relationships become a dojo for seeing. The more intimate the bond, the more precise the mirror.
Instead of trusting or distrusting people as fixed objects, we trust that every interaction carries a gift. Seeing sinlessness—their inherent innocence beyond behavior—does not mean tolerating patterns that don’t feel true.
Boundaries are not punishment; they’re the form love takes when clarity matures. You can say, I don’t like that energy, and still extend love.
That stance ends the loop of blame and shame. Shame contracts, strategizes, manipulates; love reveals and allows. Over time, complaining about others becomes a reliable bell that we’re projecting.
Once seen, irritation dissolves into cooperation—not because we’ve perfected our phrasing, but because we’ve stopped making anyone responsible for our feelings.
🌺 Aging, Illness, and the Hypnosis of Culture
Aging and illness are cultural hypnosis, not enemies to fight. Notice how songs, jokes, and timelines rehearse “getting old” or “going downhill.”
That repetition is a spell. We can lift it by recognizing it as thought, feeling its bodily impact, and declining to agree.
Tiredness, too, is surface weather—the witness of tiredness is never tired. Let yourself rest when called, not because the past night controls you, but because inner kindness is now your guide.
Illness becomes a symbol of defensiveness, an opportunity to stop using the body as a billboard for what’s wrong and return to simple presence.
Nothing in this view asks you to deny pain or force positivity; it only asks that you refuse to make any sensation proof that you are separate from love.
🌙 Beyond Judgment
Even charged topics—like abortion—are approached as symbols within a dream of separation, not as battlegrounds.
Intolerance multiplies what it condemns. When we withdraw meaning from judgment and feel the undercurrent—fear, grief, helplessness—we stop feeding the cycle.
In this dream, no one is making isolated choices. All action is an out-picturing of the love-or-fear balance in mind.
Seeing this doesn’t numb compassion; it restores it. The point is never to set rules but to admit we don’t know what anything is for and let a wiser current use everything for healing.
✨ Longing Points Home
Desire and longing are not problems—they point home.
The deepest longing is to know yourself as you are: resting in the peace of God. All other longings are variations of that impulse.
Paradoxically, you can let longing remain and still feel its fulfillment now. You are both desire and answer. The union you seek is the awareness looking through your eyes.
As you accept your actual inner state moment by moment—even the “I don’t like this”—a quiet certainty returns.
And then… you find yourself laughing.
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