When the only way 'out' is within.

There are times when intense energies intersect with intense circumstances and awaken deeply held fears, ancestral dread, anxieties, and worries. The mind spins 'round and 'round trying to 'think its way out' of the challenge, and we feel more and more frenzied when 'the solution' is not forthcoming, or is not desirable.

Sometimes all the mind -- trained only in what it's been told by 'authorities' or what it's already experienced before, within those 'culturally acceptable' or 'safe' parameters -- can see is an obstacle or situation that seems intractable, immovable, or impossible. It's a hopeless tangle. So it seems. And so we might feel those fears and ancestral dreads intensify even further, seeing no way out.

This is when, rather than thinking our way out, we must go within and access a different source of wisdom and guidance...

Read the full entry in my Sophia's Children blog.

Blessings,

Jamie

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