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What does it mean to be the Source of your experience?
I’m skipping live channeling this week, so this will take its place. I hope you enjoy.
I want to speak on this as simply as I can — in a way that can improve how you feel in a usable way.
This perspective I’m sharing with you has been endlessly helpful for me. It’s what gives me the ability to make peace, let things go, and feel safe no matter what. But as with anything I share, filter it through your own discernment. Come to your own conclusions and ways of defining what it means to be Source. Your sense of resonance is your guide.
This idea of being the Source of my experience has excited me, empowered me, and confused the living daylights out of me. But a lot of the pieces of this puzzle have been coming together, gradually forming a coherent picture..
I have to say, though, the foundation of this understanding has everything to do with observing life as a mirror.
We’ve all heard it: as within, so without; as above, so below. Well, I’ve taken this very literally when it comes to making sense out of my life.
I approach every experience from the perspective that life is a mirror to my inner experience, always guiding me and helping me deepen my intimacy with myself and life (and the collective). Which means: every moment, on some level, is an opportunity, and is happening for me, not to me.
I didn’t wake up with this belief, though. It took a lot of experimenting with it before I finally agreed…yeah, life is reflecting me.
This understanding had me questioning my influence. It had me wondering, what’s my role in all of this? My answering that question (while also remaining open to this eventually expanding) has been a result of collaborative learning. I’ve learned quite a bit, extracting the pieces that I resonate the most with, and connecting my own dots of understanding from some brilliant minds.
Abraham Hicks, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Neville Goddard, and Florence Scovel Shinn, just to name a few.
The most common thread connecting each teacher I come across is that we are the Source of our experience by way of our habitual feeling and thinking, consciously or unconsciously.
We are individual expressions of this Infinite, unconditionally loving energy.
Or as Dr. Joe puts it, our personality creates our personal reality.
But let’s make this even more relatable. This is where my experimentation has led me home — to truly understanding and living in practice with this wisdom.
We all have desires. We all want things. We all feel this call of expansion.
Most of the time, that call comes in response to some dissatisfaction with what is or has been. That desire looks like the solution to the problem or the dissatisfaction we feel. But many of us loop in that cycle of dissatisfaction, never allowing ourselves to feel relief until we’ve gotten this thing or until this person has changed or until the reflection in the mirror is different.
But if we are the Source of our experience…then that change in circumstance could never truly resolve our dissatisfaction.
We could, however, give ourselves permission to feel relief based on the condition that this thing changes.
Do you see what I’m saying here?
We tell ourselves all the time, thereby denying our own influence, that it’s the circumstance or the lack of money or the absence of a lover that’s making us miserable. When really, it’s how we’re relating to this present moment that defines how we feel.
And how we habitually feel and identify with the moment is what creates our state of being, which ripples out into our behavior, which ripples out into cause and effect (or as Dr. Joe says, causing an effect), which ripples out into observable experience within your external world.
(If every part of your being is fighting me on this, then disengage. But if this is freeing you, turning something on in you, then really think about what this can change for you.)
I mean, think about it — can you actually control how someone perceives you? Can you actually control what someone decides to do? Can you actually control time or nature or all the little pieces that make up life and allow it to function every moment of every day? Like, directly control it??
No.
And if “reality” functions as a mirror, then what’s the only thing you actually need to control (or can control)?
You.
Your perception.
The way you’re defining this moment.
The way you’re focusing internally.
And what does that influence?
→ How you feel.
→ The thoughts that become available to you.
→ The ideas you access.
→ The texture of the experiences you eventually have.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not completely dismissing the external world. We learn through experience (which is what led me to this understanding), but we create/align with new, preferable experiences through our conscious awareness. Our conscious participation with life, on some level.
This perspective truly benefits those who most desire to be self-led, spirit-led. What I’m pointing to here is a collaboration with life through consciousness. Using our experiences, which makes our desires apparent, and then using our consciousness to alter our own inner focus, therefore our inner experience.
I’m speaking about lived detachment and self-sourced fulfillment.
What’s this look like in practice?
Let’s say you want your finances to change because when you look at what is, you feel this unbearable sense of dissatisfaction. And logically, you have every right to feel that way, right?
But this whole “I am the Source” concept turns that over on its head and brings it into question. Maybe we don’t have to feel dissatisfied with what is if our energetic state of being is influencing our experiences. Maybe we need to change how we’re looking at this moment.
I’ve resisted this for a very long time, pleading with my external circumstances to change. Telling myself, I’ll never be free to feel abundant or safe until things change. But the continuing cycle of disappointment that comes from that has taught me the beautiful, yet devastating lesson: I only feel how I feel because of how I’m internally defining the experience or myself within it.
It’s my perspective on the situation that dictates how I feel. Not the situation. Not the external circumstance. Not their behavior. Not anything outside of me.
In fact, those circumstances or challenges are doing me the great service of highlighting (triggering…hehe) a feeling I’ve been habitually practicing, SUBCONSCIOUSLY.
Why? So I have the glorious opportunity of deciding again: is this how I want to continue to feel? Am I ready or willing to shift my perspective, therefore, shift my state? Am I ready or willing to experience something new?
Let’s go back to our money example. How do we apply this here?
Well, first, we have to become aware that we’re expecting an inanimate object, which we have no direct control over, to change how we feel — which is determined by the way we’re internally focused in that moment.
This is where you can use your mind, your thoughts, your imagination (whatever you prefer) to shift your state.
If it’s not the numbers in my bank causing me to feel doubtful and shitty, then it must be my less-than-fulfilling thoughts I’m having about it. Which points to me standing in a state of lack or discontent.
Just observe this. Don’t judge it.
Maybe to feel better, I can resolve that emotional tension (hello tapping [https://thetapping.club/tapping-rituals]), hold space for the emotion that keeps me circling these negative stories, and then gradually guide myself into a gentler, more pleasurable perspective.
This is where individual discernment is extra important.
This is different for everyone.
For me, this looks like tapping through my discomfort around the thoughts I’d been hearing like “there’s not enough” or “will I get more,” etc.
Feeling the uncomfortable feelings in my body while tapping (it helps me process them so nothing lingers). And then offering new thoughts.
Sometimes I can jump right into imagining things as I want them to be, and it feels delicious.
In that moment, I know — I’m the reason I feel good, not the circumstance. I simply used the idea of something I wanted to guide my body into a better feeling state. I did the same thing when I felt bad, but I did it from an unconscious, emotionally unresolved state.
Other times, I have to be softer.
I have to help myself feel okay with this moment because that’s as far as I can reach. That looks like thinking thoughts like (while tapping) “maybe I’m safe in this moment” or “everything’s okay right now, look around, nothing’s wrong” or “everything might turn out better than I think.”
I really just have to meet myself where I am. This process isn’t perfect. It’s a practice of attuning every day. I’m finally starting to understand the ins and outs of this process in a way that I can practice more deeply and share with you guys.
To bring this whole conversation home, though…
Being the Source of your experience means taking emotional responsibility in the moment.
It means taking ownership of your feelings instead of blaming the world around you. That doesn’t mean we don’t have experiences that suck or that destabilize us or trigger us endlessly, but it does mean that each moment is an opportunity. Each moment is a teacher, if we’re willing to learn. And each moment is a new chance for you to feel better and better and better.
Because that’s what you deserve.
To feel fucking glorious. At least that’s my opinion.
I trust that this will serve and inspire those who resonate.
Here’s a way to help this truth land in the body
But let’s not just talk about this. Let’s be about it. Let’s integrate this understanding into lived experience.
Tapping bridges the gap between understanding and embodiment. It works with your nervous system in real time, so instead of just telling yourself “I am the Source of my experience” and hoping that sticks, you begin to actually feel and respond from that place even when emotions are heightened.
This is where the concept stops being something you want to believe — and starts becoming how you naturally live.
So I created a tap-a-long ritual you can start using now to break you out of this disempowering cycle. No more relying on the external world to give you a sense of richness, confidence, success — or whatever it is you’re craving.
It’s just 15 minutes long and can help you permanently alter how you view your life experiences, putting your power back in your hands.
Download it here and start tapping. [https://thetapping.club/b/permissiontofeelgoodnow] Tap as often as it feels right for you and until you feel the shift. Make sure to hydrate!
And then start feeling all the wonderful things you’ve always wanted to right where you are. Just as you are, you whole, Infinite being.
Be patient with yourself, though. You’ll ebb and flow with this process as you unlock a new rhythm. Trust your body. Listen to it daily. And love yourself every step of the way through it. And of course, I’m here to guide you through it if you need. Just book from one of the links below.
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