If you are feeling unfulfilled, lonely, empty, sad, lacking direction or purpose, and not able to look forward to tomorrow as offering a better opportunity than today does to change all of those things, what should you do today? Is there a method to moving from where you are to a place you will find more fulfilling?

There is.

It’s free.

You already have everything you need to reach a place where you are truly, deeply happy…where life is an adventure you are ready to leap into when you wake up each day, where your dreams are made whole and your wishes come true.

It starts right where you are, right this minute. Now.

The place from which your happiness comes, the place which births your dreams and wishes and desires as fully formed reality you can live within, is inside you. In fact, it is all inside you.

Right now, if you are like most people, the “inside you” idea is one that is more frightening than it is enlightening. In today’s world, we all seem to live a life that is so busy and chaotic that there is never even one moment within which we can pause to reconnect with… with…

What should we call it? I’m going to say “Spirit”, and by that I mean the forever part of ourselves that we brought with us into this life and that will remain forever after we have left this life. It knows no time because it is undifferentiatable from the heart of all that is. All that is, simply is. It never “was” nor is it a “will be”. All that is, is just that. It is. Now. Always, now. Feel free to replace my usage of “Spirit” with whatever term makes this information most meaningful for you.

When we are able to break away from the day-to-day busy-ness (they don’t term it, “business” for nothing) and renew our relationship with the forever part of ourselves which is always only an indefinably small distance from our consciousness, regardless of how involved we are with the distractions of the world, we are able to find an entire universe awaiting us. It is there always, always available, always accessible, always ours to acknowledge.

The voice or guidance of Spirit sounding within is wonderfully independent of all the worries and woes of the world we live in. Our god-part is able to guide us without concern for what our parents or friends or family might think about the advice so readily available to us.

It is not my intent to tell you what you need to do to get there. We all have different backgrounds from which we come and that have given a flavor and color to our lives. You will have already been introduced to a path most accessible to you as a result of living, learning, and loving your way to where you are now.

What I will divulge is my own way there, knowing full well that some folks will not find it all that helpful–there are a billion paths, and this is only one. If anyone finds it encouraging, though, to know that such paths exist, it was worth the writing.

Sit quietly in a spot where you can expect to be uninterrupted. Be aware of where you are only minimally. Fall backward (my way of thinking about it is to imagine the view I see from my eyes, and following back along the path of that vision into my own head) and find a soft landing spot within yourself.

Now, breathe. Breathe, and release whatever rises up to your mind in order to allow unbidden guidance space to be heard. There is no urgency or pressure. If nothing comes, nothing needs to be heard right now.

Stay with the “I am open to my guidance” space as long as it feels freeing and helpful to you. It may seem fruitless after two minutes some days, and joyfully refreshing into unmeasured time other days. Most important is not the exercise, but the freeing from where you are stressed that can result. It will be what you allow it to be.

As you are able to encompass the experiences of your time with yourself into your day-to-day life, you will find that your life takes on an entirely different feeling for you than it had prior. I’ll write more on that topic next time….

Rick

Rick Hamrick has been a student of the inner path for 12 years. His talents are largely underutilized, so he is using this forum to exercise the muscles of his inner wisdom to work them into shape.