The Child In You Knows
Trade or Invest, Pure Presence, Strip It Back
The child in you has always known what it means to live free, but their knowing gets lost amid the noise from the outside world. Find yourself a set of earplugs and let the youth be heard.Curious
Trade or Invest:
Imagine trading in the realest version of you in exchange for what the people in your environment deemed normal, only to learn later that they were lost and not living true to themselves.
Save the energy spent comparing yourself to others and invest it into being more of what is true to you.
Conscious
Pure Presence:
Contrary to the norms our culture has formed, you don’t need to add more and more hoops to jump through if you want to find lasting peace. The child in you has always known where it is found — pure presence in the here and now.
Change
Strip It Back
I had to learn the hard way that experiences or objects (external) are never the source of happiness. It may seem like they are because, at that moment, you feel happy or peaceful, but, in reality, it is the cessation of seeking and resisting (internal) that results in happiness coming to the fore of your experience.
A society seeking happiness in objective experience (form) will forever be subjected to unhappiness.
Strip it back. Your very nature is happiness. The child in you already knew this.
I’d love to hear about the simple joys you loved growing up. Let me know by replying directly to this email or leave a comment below.
Live Free,
Niall
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LVN Stories
LVN (livin’): described as a feeling of aliveness, freedom, fulfilment, or joy.
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One of my favourite memories as a child is finding a penny on the sidewalk, feeling like I hit the jackpot and then walking to the corner store to buy a double bubble gum. 🩵
Twenty-five years ago I was given the gift of Parkinson's. It cost me my career as a person who specialized in turning companies around (four successful - no failure). I wasn't that smart, I just believed in the concept that you can help people see what they do well and help them do it better. Yup - a classic Type A. We, the people I worked with (they did not work for me they worked with me) learned from me one thing. Persistence. And I sought among the daily grind of twelve to fourteen hour days ways to make it fun. I kid my grandchildren (and my children before them) when they asked how old I was on my birthday I would always say 'twelve'. My ex thought she had four children (we had three) because she thought I acted as a child with them. Of course I did. Why not? Still acting like a child in all the ways that a child appreciates the beauty of Creation.