You are a unique consciousness. But the experience of that unique consciousness is filtered through your current life within a physical existence.  

For most, that physical existence holds their consciousness in its thrall.  

The competing distractions of the mind, the body and the emotions give a randomness to experiences and inconsistences of reaction, creating an uncentred, unsettled presence.     Coping with this instability brings about the need for ever more rigid comfort zones, shrinking the potential for pain, but also the opportunities for growth and joy.  

For many, that inner competition is further amplified by their attention to the distracting environment around them, and through modern media, the world at large. This creates a search for identity within each moment, based upon the shifting sands of another’s reactions or the pressures of the greater consensus of tribe or fashion. 

In truth there are no permanent anchor points outside yourself. You may experience a sense of compatibility to another or to a belief system or environment. But without being anchored within yourself you will always react to life rather than fully experience and witness it. 

I remember, many years ago I was told that I didn’t include myself. Include myself? At the time I had no idea what that meant and back then ironically, I saw myself as very self-aware.  

So, when I’m talking about living life as a reaction to the world and then the personal evolution of anchoring to yourself, (specifically to your centre) I’m speaking from my own personal journey. 

I was given guidance from Upstairs years ago to see my mind, my body and my emotions separately within myself. Then to experience, but also to witness them as both a participant and as a spectator within the live action movie of my life.  

This separation (and subsequent reintegration) gave me the clarity and space to find my centre, anchor my consciousness internally and in response to that historical critique, ‘include myself’. 

So, what have I learned, what have I been shown, what can I share? 

Picture your mind, emotions and physical body as passengers within a car.                             

This symbolises YOU, on your journey through life.  

Your mind sits at the wheel, gripping it tightly taking on the role that society has given it as the most valuable and adult member of your personal team; 

The default team leader. Building it up, way beyond its pay grade, as the centre of personal consciousness, the identity of the Self.  

In the meantime, the emotional self sits in the front passenger seat, restless, needing to be heard and feeling disempowered and misunderstood. Even at times driven to grab the steering wheel from the mind’s grasp just out of frustration or ignorance. 

Behind them in the back seats sits the physical body. Patient but also needing to be included and not just through vanity or ill health but as the primary tool of physical interaction within a physical world. 

Yet, sitting unnoticed in the back seat alongside the physical body resides the spiritual body and its direct connection to the Soul. And as the front seat occupants compete to steer the car to the best of their ability, the spiritual body through its connection to Soul and beyond, simply and effortlessly changes the landscape in front to meet and guide the whole car and its parts/occupants.  

So now, see each of your car’s passengers as a separate part of you, as equally important tools in your toolkit, rather than the competitive, dysfunctional team they often feel like.  

Look at it this way; If your mind really believes it is the responsible adult steering the car (whole self) through challenging roads in directions of its choosing and that it looks down at the emotions and physical body as lesser passengers and frequently as liabilities, then this is going to create rebelliousness and disharmony within the car itself. SO TRUST in your connected spiritual self by default as your mind isn’t the designated driver here, it just assumes it is!  

Have compassion for your mind’s insecurities, but don’t let it hold you back through its need to understand first, as that’s just the mind wanting to feel in control and within its own comfort zones.  

It’s about having communication and a real dialogue with ALL the passengers in your car. Acknowledging them, valuing them, nurturing them and being the responsible adult for often willful, insecure children.  

So, step up to the plate and become the parent you are meant to be and don’t blame the kids if they act selfishly or willfully, after all they’ve never been given proper boundaries by you and your often immature mind has grabbed the role of authority in your absence.  

YOU are in charge; YOU are the parent.  

Part 2 to follow along with guidance to reach and anchor into your own Centre.