Here's the thing about performing.

Every moment you spend being someone else is energy stolen from who you actually are. The performance requires constant maintenance. And if you're exhausted right now, it's because you're living two lives—the real one and the performed one. People pleasing is at the core of this. There's some form of fear, right? If you act and share what you actually feel, something bad may happen. That fear is an insecurity, a desperate grab for certainty. But the beauty is when you stop performing, you're no longer holding on to what you want life to be. You're letting life show you what it's meant to be.

You don't control everything in life, but you do have a direct ability to change where you stand. When you stop performing, you're able to move differently. With this new form of movement where you can be guided, carried, flowing—the life force strengthens. You get stronger because you feel what you're meant to feel rather than reacting. You allow the energy to be felt. You don't justify it or move too fast to different topics. You have a form of presence. This is what connects you to life force.

I can guarantee you there's been at least one moment in your life where time has warped. You're playing a video game and two hours goes by and you're like, what? Or you're sitting in the school classroom staring at the clock and ten minutes felt like four hours. Time warps. Why? Because time is a construct. Time is in relationship to thought. The real point is, can you free yourself of thought while still moving through this world intelligently?

See, you'll find yourself in environments where you fit in for a while, but then fitting in starts to be stale. Almost disgusting. You get to this point where you realize the mask is so obvious and that you would much rather be living in an uncertain symphony than a preplanned stagnation. The only way you learn how to dance with the tides of the symphony is to get so sick and tired of being sick and tired with this stale, stagnant identity.

So can you be content with uncertainty? Because if you can do that, you will realize there's no need to perform. And when you're done performing and you are just moving freely with the life force, you have more joy. You laugh more frequently and the time goes by faster. That's the shift.

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