I was running along Bondi Beach the other night. Running is something I love. Whilst I’m running, I feel so much connection and presence. Although I’m running, it’s like time stands still and I just feel happy for no reason. It’s in this space that some really cool things seem to find me.

Before running, I was at home and had just finished doing some writing. Then… I had this feeling to run. So I took this feeling and ran with it…Ha ha! Nice pun, Jamie.

For me, everything starts with a feeling. That is the space from which I live my life. I like to feel from within and have fun as that feeling expresses itself externally.

When I am living like this, I am coming from a space where I am already complete. I’m not looking at what I can get from life, but rather what I can give. When I give, it’s like giving to myself. I feel this constant joy. It’s like there is this kid inside me, yelling, “Take me outside to play!”

When I was a kid, it was all about playing. I would drive my mum nuts. I was always running around somewhere in the neighbourhood. I would be riding my skate board, or bike or I’d be down in our local bush reserve playing with my mates. I would always remember my mum yelling out for me when dinner was ready, and me pretending I was slightly hard of hearing… I didn’t want to stop playing!

Pharrell William’s new song, “Happy”, reminds me of that experience and the feeling of it. As I’m writing this post at my favourite Bondi café, his song just came on. Love it!

You see: This is what I mean. Living according to what I feel is like playing. When I was kid, I just played because I was already happy and that’s how I would feel to express it. My attention wasn’t on things like: What do I need to do today? How much money will I make? Or will anyone care if I do this or that?

I was living from what I already felt inside. So when did I trade my inside feeling for something I thought I could get outside?

For me, it occurred when I was about to leave school. I went into a mindset of needing to survive. I felt this pressure to become something according to what would make me happy, what would allow me to survive.

When I think about it, as a kid, I was already surviving. I was having a ball. But, then, for some reason, I doubted that would just keep unfolding. I was made to believe I had to work hard before I could play. I had to become really smart or I would fail at life.

These days, I have really come to realise how untrue all that is.  I was sold a lie. Not because it’s what was intended, but because the people selling these lies didn’t know any better. They only knew what they knew and that’s what kept them safe and secure in knowing. And at that level of awareness it is what I created to be taught and to believe, because I wasn’t at a deeper level of connection with my own truth.

Today, I follow my truth. I trust what I already feel within my soul.

That feeling  just wants to go out and play, so I take it outside to play. The more I come to know this feeling to be more real than any other lie I once believed, the more I find myself playing in each and every moment. Are you ready to play?

If you would love to connect with me about being supported to play again and move through your own perceived limitations, click here to arrange a free chat with me where I can answer any questions you may have and as I said, simply connect with you! I look forward to it.

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Tags: acceptance, being, Empowerment, feeling, freedom, INSPIRATION, limitlessliving, space, truth

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