Pressure is something every human being experiences in one form or another. This presents us with a paradox; behaviorally most of us will do almost anything to avoid pressure and cognitively most of us know that we need pressure to grow.
So many of us are stuck in a paradigm where if we aren’t “crushing life,” “overcoming obstacles,” “creating a business” or “growing ourselves” we aren’t living our purpose. What this really amounts to is pouring fuel on a fire that needs to burn out, not get hotter.
Cultivating a consciousness that can withstand tremendous pressure is imperative to learning what it is to be Human. However cultivating such a consciousness requires a distinctly different relationship to pressure than is generally being taught.
People all over the world are being taught to charge headlong into pressure. They’re being fuelled by concepts like achievement, improvement, purpose, masculinity, courage, and conquering your fears. From the perspective of cultivating one’s consciousness, charging headlong into pressure is absolutely no different than tucking your tail and running from pressure. Either way you are perpetuating an illusion of self and taking yourself further away from who you truly are.
It breaks my heart to see so many people in the world not only misunderstanding how to leverage the pressure they experience for growth but when life gives them a break, they go out and seek challenges and pressure in order to feel worthy.
This is thousands of years old and it got us here. By that I mean it doesn’t work. More and more people end up creating lives where the circumstances enclose them and eventually there is no escape and they crumble along with whatever they have created.
I know, “breakdowns are breakthroughs, it’s all part of our lifelong journey of healing.” But, real growth and true creation happen from a state of grace and flow. Real transformational alchemy happens in stillness under pressure. Pressure is a signal from the universe to STOP everything you’re doing and be STILL. It’s an opportunity for life to squeeze you so that you can see what comes out.
Perhaps the only way for us as humans to experience our deepest emotions and heal our deepest wounds is in STILLNESS under PRESSURE. Pressure is not a call to action, consciousness is evolving and we are with it. Doing things the way we used to or the way we always have isn’t going to work. What got us here won’t get us there. Are you ready to let go of everything you’ve learned and know to be at the leading edge of change?