Todo es Perfecto.

Everything is perfect and though I can’t make sense of that regarding the suffering I see “out there” in the world outside my mind, I can make sense of it within my internal universe of experience. Pain, suffering, hardship, loss, and the like all end up having important meaning on the other side of the lesson learned. How often do we hear, “I wouldn’t change a thing” from people who have gone through great challenges and emerged as incredible beings of character and integrity on the other side?

So if everything is perfect, if everything has meaning and purpose towards an ideal outcome in time, how does anything have meaning? Why “do” anything if it’s all just going to “work out” in the end? This paradox of determinism verses the will of action to implement change is key to our human experience. “Free will” may be an illusion created by our minds, but I still think there’s something to the “will” to know and dare to create creative twists and turns in the overall set storyline. Like an actor playing a role on stage, there is room between the lines to ad lib something or to bring a fresh perspective to the character and by doing so influence the whole script.

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players”

The question comes down to whether or not you want to suck at your role of being an adult human being or to excel at it. Sure, you could also be mediocre and forgetful, but I (for various understandings of “I”) don’t see that much different than a non-player character (NPC), so I’m not sure you’re even really on stage in a meaningful way in that frame. You’re just an extra. Instead, you can be horrible to shine a light on how amazing excellence is or you can be excellent to demonstrate the benefits of increased capacity for love that comes with evolving and developing your consciousness.

You’re in the role you’re in either way. In this moment, this very now, you can use your intention, your will, to “choose” a deep, conscious, meditative breath verses an automated, unaware, shallow, unconscious breath. That’s where it starts. How many conscious breaths will you take today? What else will you “choose” to do consciously within your role as a player on stage?

If you’ve made pain and suffering part of your identity, know you can also unmake that identity at any time. The tools for doing so through meditation, breath work, authentic relating games, internal family systems, counseling, hypnosis, psychedelics, dojo, and more are available to you, if you decide to change your primal character story. Are you the hero, villain, victim, prodigal son, etc.?

Symbols can be helpful as a way to empower and channel your mind’s creative ability to create a world you want to live in. Some call this magic and get really involved in it with all kinds of practices, things worn and said and done, etc. I’m certainly curious about all of that, but I also see the trap of belief and how it becomes something we identify with as “someone who believes such and such.” If that’s part of the character you’re playing, sure, have at it. But does it have to be? You can also just use the tools that come to you.
The unpleasantries of life are often there to direct you towards better opportunities to play a more fulfilling character. Lean in to those uncomfortable triggers and work through them to the other side to see just how perfect everything truly is.

The ALL is MIND. The Universe is Mental.