09/01/2022
Hello from beautiful Rotterdam! I started this year with a solo-trip to a place I've never been before. Something that I did last year as well & trained my 'self-trust muscles' by doing so ☻ ༄ I achieved the most of my past posts. They were based on downloads and insights I got which I posted because I felt I 'had' to instead of digesting and practicing them first. I was not a living example of what I shared, I was pretty much still trying to get my business running - aka the traditional way of 'doing to get'. This wasn't fun at all, I felt anxious and stressed out most of the time whenever I opened social media or even thought about it. I guess I even suffered from a kind of burnout which I'm still recovering from? No wonder, last year and the years before my mindset and life were all about "do, do, do", "go, go, go" = wanting control & feeling safe - working against my nature and the opposite of flow vs what I preach now which is BEING = allow, accept, embrace (this is my motto and 'new' way/practice of going about my life).⠀
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I've been doing a lot of deconditioning along with putting into practice what I have learned from my Ayahuasca retreat at the end of October (fun fact: it was over the Halloween weekend). I'm sitting with the pain, the fears, the old stories, the pressure - the whole palette of emotions that come with transformation. In other words, I'm not who I used to be anymore - I'm shedding skins (I highly recommend same named song), like a onion peeling layers. The old way of how I lived my life or how I was going about my life doesn't make sense anymore. My old identity of 'the fixer, the doer' doesn't make sense anymore. This process is not easy and as light as it's often described. It's simple but in action it hurts, it's confusing, and it feels like dying - in fact, it is a sort of dying. Everytime we let go of something, a part of us - of the old identity dies. Awakening is also dying, as I said before, we shed layers where we let go of old, false identities and getting to know ourselves in a (often totally) complete way. This feels like being reborn when in fact we just become more 'real'.