Through all the self-empowerment and new age confirmations and affirmations for the last 30 years or so, it seems like we are still struggling with that fact. Maybe they weren’t that good, eh?

So maybe the solution to this is, taking the understanding of that down at an intellectual level and go for the: feel. I think that is the matrix in it.

We can stand in front of any mirror this world has to offer and tell our reflection: “You are way cooler that you think” until we kick the affirmation bucket. It won’t change a thing. Since it’s an intellectual statement and we are addressing a reflection of us, not the source in us.

It has to ripple and flush through the emotional nervous system like a tidal wave and self-perception will change.

Maybe the more sober version would be: “I´m packed with issues in my burden basket, but still in spite of my self perceived flaws, I´m way cooler than I think and eventually I will prevail”.

The Tao says: “In times of confusion-lower your ambitions”.

Very clever Tao, it took me some time to understand it, since I don’t see ambition of evolution as a bad thing, but if we don’t know where we´re going it might be a good idea to drive a little slower so we don’t get real lost.

If there is such a thing as lost.

Sometimes we need to go so low inside that there only are two options: Departure or rise from the pits and the realms of the weary night of the soul.

I would recommend the Rising.

There’s a season for growth and there’s a season for rest. Nature follows that eternal rhythm, why don’t we accept it? That acceptance being embedded in the Tao mentioned.

It’s a very delicate synchronistic dance between the intellect trying to decipher the metaphysic of life and the “feel” of one self in life.

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