The future myth that will keep you stuck.

Have you ever noticed that it's one thing or another?

Once X happens. Once Y is over or past. Once you have Z. 

Then...life evolves and gets better.

And yet, you're always there. You're always in that place where you're still waiting for, working for, or wishing for the thing that will finally mean you can feel it's the "now" you were holding out for and relax into the presence of being alive. 

Still, you persist with the myth. Sometimes you have some control over the thing. Other times, you don't.

And sometimes, you try to bend the will of the entire universe to make it happen. 

Well, it never fully comes. Have you noticed that? You're always still there. Because once you reach the goal or desire, two things happen.

One is your benchmark shifts. Maybe not at first, but soon enough. Your particular flavor of restlessness takes hold of something else to focus and chew on.

The second is you realize when even desired changes come in life, they don't always make it 'better.' They make it different. You swap out circumstances for different joys... and different challenges. 

What if you surrendered that any future ideal circumstance could possibly make your life better?

What if you asked what of my life right now would I miss if the desired change I wished for actually happens? 

But more than that, what if you asked, how am I perceiving or judging my life? Through what lenses do I tend to gaze upon my life, myself, and others? What is the story I am telling about my life or my self? And what are the engines firing behind these stories? Are they even personal? Are they even mine? 

Because here's the truth.

How you predominantly perceive your life now is the best predictor of how you will perceive your life in the future. Even if you get what you want. Your perceptions are not only perceptions—they are expectations and you are energetically projecting them, consciously or unconsciously. 

That doesn't mean you don't have dreams and follow them. It doesn't mean you don't leave dynamics incongruent to your being. It doesn't mean that tangible changes do not matter to our ability to thrive. Of course they matter!

But the power you hold is always here, now, and coming from within.

What if the most valuable thing you can do for yourself is to hone your experiencer?

Not to control your experience. To hone the quality of your experiencer. Because when you do that, things begin to shift. 

Because the best way to bring what will truly fulfill you into your life is not to focus on lack, but to experience the fullness of yourself and the moment you are in. Any single moment when you are able to do this, you drop out of the illusion and into the mysteries of the world, open and available all around you.

All my love,

Aimee