Sometimes we have to go back to places, to know that’s no longer where we belong.

The felt sense of belonging is incredibly important as a means of engagement with our world. Belonging is felt sense of right connection, of kinship to the spaces, places and relationships in which we find ourselves engaging in.

It’s so fascinating to see how we shift and change through life, in some phases some things are incredibly important to us, we long for them — they are an integral part of our paths, and at other times they lull out of our realities. 

Sometimes we find ourselves missing the old, missing what once was. Missing a profound time. And maybe we even try and recreate it, or maybe we put ourselves into a place where we re-engage with it once more.

But we can never be exactly where we once were, for we are constantly shifting and changing with life through every single life passage. Our inner river flowing with waters that are new, that are now, and that are very much untapped.

It doesn’t mean that the connection is forever severed. What once was relevant to us can just filter into our past, being a part of the story of how we got to where we needed to be, as we refine and experience what is for us — and what is not for us. 

As we journey, we come to know where our allegiances lay, what we are truly connected to, and what we can in-fact live without. So we can welcome in, and align to what truly lights us up — to what truly feels good.

This letting go process, is the most powerful, as it allows for us to call in the most alive and relevant experiences for our souls, whilst simultaneously allowing what no longer fully lights us up and feeds us to fall away.

It’s important to commit to what our souls need. To not fill our time and use our energy on things that aren’t quite it. Because, this life is so precious, our time is everything, and we must try and make the most of the time we do have outside of all the responsibilities that life accompanies.

It’s very easy to become stagnant, to continue down the same path, to continue going back to the same places — sometimes it works out well, and sometimes the experiences might just be better than what we had wished for. But other-times, we may be limiting ourselves, limiting our experiences, and more than anything spending our precious time, energy and resources on an experience that is somewhat lack lustre.

There are times for commitment, and there are times for expanding our horizons, and shooting for the stars — for really trying something new. It is in our own felt sense that we can only decipher when and where we act upon those impulses — on those deep longings.

Sometimes to merely think it, is not enough, and sometimes we need to put ourselves back into the old story or timeline to fully and whole heartedly know — for it is oftentimes easier for us to know through direct experience.

These experiences of knowing, of truly feeling — are integral. They may at times feel like we are going backwards, but the forwards momentum that they propel in our lifestream will take us to the places we exactly need to be, for they truly animate the renewed connection, or alternatively — the letting go passage.

When we feel something is out of alignment, it is merely a signpost for us to reach for that which is. It is a great paradox, but we actually learn so greatly, and even may I dare to say much more, from what is in polarity to what we actually long to experience.

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