So many of us try to fix ourselves in place—solidify our identities, chase certainty, or proving our worth through doing more. But what if life was never meant to be that hard? This gentle message is a reminder that your truest self doesn’t need a label—it just needs to be remembered.
The Illusion of Identity
Many humans get attached to needing identities to find security, to find your feet. If you know what category you fit into—if you know your style, your brand—these are all comforting things to know and figure out about yourself.
But this idea of figuring out and needing to hold on to something for your own security really takes the fun out of the authentic expression that you intended when you chose this experience here on Earth.
Why Are You Chasing What’s Already Yours?
Does locking down how you feel about yourself help others perceive you in a similar light?
You make it so complicated. Rather than allowing it all to come to you, you jump outside of your energy and chase it—trying to lock it down. Make it so. Make it true. Make it real. Make it solid. Because then you'll feel safe. Then you'll feel secure. Then you can move toward your dreams.
But from our perspective, energy is fluctuating all the time. Who you are—or know yourself to be—is fluctuating all the time. You could make things a lot simpler if you just focused on the love that you are.
Stop Proving. Start Receiving.
So many of you have a complex that you are not enough— you feel that you constantly have to be doing something to prove who you are, to prove your worth and your value..
And so this counterintuitive idea of leaning back, of surrendering, of allowing, of receiving—this very feminine energy of opening, of magnetism… You close yourself off to those parts of yourself when you force and effort and do and do more and stay in the feeling of never enough.
You Are Free to Choose
You're welcome to stay there. That is your right—as free will ordains it to be. You can choose whatever path you'd like and whatever way to walk that path. It's all up to you—the perspective you choose, whether you've held it for five minutes or fifty years. It's yours to choose. It's yours to change your mind.
That is your birthright. That is what you intended. That is why you're here. You wanted the contrast of joy, even with pain, so that you could know that joy in its deepest sense of the word.
Reverence for All of It
You will not only know its energy—because that is who you truly are—but you, on this earthly plane, get to create it yourself if you choose to. And if you choose not to—consciously or unconsciously—we still bow in reverence to all of the choices you make in your own free will.
This is perhaps one of the most beautiful and unique parts about being human. So if nothing else, embrace your freedom to choose.
Inner Freedom Is Always Available
Even if the outside world is reflecting back to you that it’s not your choice… As you come to know and live your inner freedom, your true inner freedom, your birthright as this human, in this existence that you are perceiving right now, you’ll realize that it’s all for you. It’s all for you to choose.
There is no “how.” There is no to-do list. It is a leaning back. It is a softening. It is an allowing. It is a receiving. It is an opening.
This Isn’t About Doing Nothing
Of course, this does not mean that you're going to sit on a mountaintop or sit in your living room and do nothing. That is no fun. No adventure.
It’s about living your life as you’ve designed it so far—but now you’re stepping forth with the knowing that you are creating your reality through what you choose to perceive, through your five senses, through your energy.
We don’t even wish to use the word “focus,” because it is laden with the idea of work. This is not work. This is a remembering. This is a coming in-to. This is a knowing. Stepping into being all that you are and always have been.
And you might have to hear it a million times before you feel it within yourself.
You Create Through Choice
Nothing outside of you can make you feel anything that you don’t allow or choose it to do. Words are just words but energy is energy.
Awakenings are meant to be felt and embodied. And no one else can project their knowing onto you unless you allow it and adopt it as your own. But it's all through your choice, your feeling, your knowing, your love.
So never lose your autonomy. Never let anything outside of you reflect back to you something you do not want to experience.
Begin Again, From Within
It starts from within. It starts from within, and it continues from within.
What you choose will be mirrored back to you. So if you do not like your surroundings, your environment, the people you’ve attached yourself to—consciously or unconsciously, whether you felt like it was your choice or not—as you step fully into your knowing, into your being, into all that you are, you will attract more love, more harmony, deeper relationships and connections.
Start Here
Start there, dear friends. Start with reconnecting with who you truly are by leaning back. Leaning in. Opening. Expanding. Receiving. Allowing.
Because when you stop fighting with yourself and others around you, waves of peace will enter your energetic field. And you will just want more of that peace, that love.
Your energy—and everything you've ever wanted—is within you.
Allow it. Receive it. Be it.
And so it is.
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Hi! I'm Courtney, intuitive, channel and human in progress. Join my newsletter to learn more about me or find me on YouTube.
