The Unwanted Guest At The Door

“The world is not here to make you happy. It’s here to make you conscious.” - Eckhart Tolle

There are many paths to awakening, but none so obvious as your life and its unfolding.

The truth is, the whole of your life is one giant invitation to step back into what I call Soul Space.

We can look at our lives as a series of doorways that invite us back to our True Essence. The doorways come in many forms.

They arrive in the form of illness, challenging relationships, addiction, political strife, loss, anxiety, depression, feeling lost, uncertainty, career challenges, and on and on.

Our conditioned response to these challenges are to resist them. We try our damndest to outrun, suppress, manipulate, deny or change what shows up at our doorstep.

We say, “What?! This isn’t right! This shouldn’t be this way!” And when we do this our bodies respond accordingly with resistance. We clamp down and tighten up; anything to not feel what is knocking at our door.

But have you noticed that what knocks doesn’t stop knocking? We might dull the noise for a while through distraction, over-eating, drinking, shopping, politicizing…but eventually, we’ll have to turn around and open that door.

It is only ever a thought that tells us that what is waiting for us on the other side of that door is something that we can’t handle. But it has shown up for a reason and at some point, we’ll have to welcome in the unwanted guest.

This is where Surrender comes in.

Surrender is a game-changer because it’s not so much about what or who is knocking on our door, but our decision to open the door itself. When Life knocks, we can run but we really can’t hide and the only sane response is to accept that something wants in.

The question then becomes, what is this unwanted guest asking of me?

Our minds will want to race in and answer according to its bias and conditioning. It will want to take a stance and it will, once again, back you into a corner. Aaaannnnnd you’re right back where you started. Arms defiantly crossed over your chest and claiming to know more then Life itself about how to proceed.

The mind is such a wise-ass.

Instead, we bypass the mind and we go to something more primal and intuitive; to those soft whispers that demand nothing of you but show you the way, nonetheless.

This is where we bravely walk towards the door that we’ve bolted shut from every possible angle and open it up. We do it without believing any thought that inevitably races through our head. We do it with curiosity and a sincerity to move into unchartered waters.

We welcome the unwanted guest.

And the mind will demand, once that door is open, that it needs to go a certain way.

Don’t listen.

It will go the way it goes.

And if we get brave enough to take our hands off the wheel, we can trust that something infinitely intelligent will bring us there.

My own unwanted guest has been a resurgence of an old, chronic illness. And while I have tried my damndest to manage it on my own, something keeps knocking on my door.

Since I had spent so much time in hospitals and in doctors offices as a child with this illness, I had sworn to myself in my twenties that I would never go back; that there was a better way; a more holistic way to heal the body.

But my way isn’t working and I can feel my resolve slipping.

The unwanted guest at my own door is filled with my own bias around conventional medicine, around being sick itself, and around having little control over what this body of mine is going to do.

I thought I could control it all. I thought that if I just ate a certain way, moved a certain way and did all of the things my mind told me I had to do that I could get under this.

But life isn’t here to meet my fickle demands. It is here to wake me up.

So, I bravely walk to the door and open it up.

I have no idea what will meet me on the other side.

I do know that I have incredible love and support in my life and that this too shall pass at some point.

But it is time to move myself out of the drivers seat…again. Man…you’d think I’d learn.

Yet just this small inner decision brings relief.

To get out of the way and open a new door to a world of unknowns.

I make no claim on expectation. Experience tells me that would be foolish.

I can only respond to what this moment is asking of me.

What is life asking of you right now? Is there an unwanted guest at your own door?

Life is no longer messing around. We’re at a critical point in our conscious evolution. I know you can feel it.

There is a tsunami of Consciousness moving across this planet and it is taking everything that you thought you knew…it is taking all of your biases, hard-won belief systems, concepts, conditioning, stances, opinions and chin-jutting positions and it is throwing them on the shore.

It is saying, these things are not who you are…you are beyond these things…you are the Light of the world and it is time that you drop all that you are not.

It’s not going to stop knocking until you get off your ass and answer the door.

Be brave, bright light.

You’ve been waiting your whole life for this.