This essay is essay #3 in a series connected to my new EP Cliff
Read essay #1 CLIFF EP INTRO here
Read essay #2 ELECTRIC HEART here
Read essay #4 DISCIPLINE here
Read essay #5 NOT TOO SWEET here
The second tune on the EP is titled the same as the EP itself;
CLIFF
**Surrendering to life, being with it as it is, while holding a vision for something greater for you and others, is part of cultivating your inner CLIFF**
What is reality? Where did we come from, why are we here and where are we going? What possibilities are open to us as souls having this human experience?
As a spiritually inclined, sensitive artist, who loves being in my own company, I’ve chosen to spend a lot of time with questions like this.
Another question might be; What kind of force is it that makes flowers bloom, makes trees bear fruit and governs day and night in a perfect rythm? I believe that it’s the same kind of life-force that we carry within us. This force gives life, and organizes life, without asking anything in return. It is free flowing unconditional love.
For a very long time, it has been the norm of society at large to live in a state which is mostly out of touch with this force.
Although this kind of thinking won’t continue for much longer, it has been viewed as normal by most to ignore this force, ridicule our connection to it, or try to violently control it. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it seems to me that many people have been too busy with daily trivialities to re-connect to their true nature and reason for being. They forgot to pay attention to their life force, and they missed the opportunities it offered to let it help shape them.
This includes me. Over the last couple of years I’ve woken up more and more, and I am still cutting my diamond and polishing the mirror of my heart, like everyone else. Said in another way: I’m still cultivating my inner cliff and the connection to it.
An important piece of my puzzle was, and still is, attending Network Spinal care sessions.
If you’re not familiar with Network, you can learn more about what it is HERE and HERE. And I also recommend reading about the philosophies of the founders of chiropractic, D. D. Palmer and his son B. J.
Attending Network Spinal care sessions has put me closer in touch with my life force.
Sometimes, when we repeatedly choose to ignore the messages of our innate life force, life becomes an analytical excerise almost solely run by the intellect. We disconnect from our body-mind. We rely on force-force instead of flow-force. We choose what the intellect percieves as certainty, instead of choosing something that seems more uncertain, but that we have a gut feeling is more in accordance with our true, unique nature. I’ve made this mistake a few times!
While attending Network sessions I realized that, because most of us have been so accustomed to living life as a mental excercise, it can literally feel like jumping off of a cliff to try to trust the innate life force. It can be terrifying. But this very aspect is what all spiritual traditions have been talking about for ages; You have to have faith. You have to jump off the cliff. Proof comes after faith and action. Not the other way around. Life is experiential. And, actually, as written in essay #1, you will find that once you do jump, your perception of inner and outer cliff will merge closer, resulting in you bringing your unique light to the world. The cliff is both the question and the answer. It’s both the journey and the desination. It’s what you leap from, what guides you during your flight, and what you land on. It’s the most natural thing. It is universal consciousness and it is everywhere.
Dare to not turn your back on it.
We need the intellect.
Without it we could not cope on this planet.
And we also need our heart, our our intuition, our connection to that which our intellect can not comprehend.
We need to cultivate our connection to our inner cliff and become one with it.
The song Cliff is a love song.
It could be understood as an interpersonal love song, a love song to our guardian angel(s) and also as a tribute to life and life force.
This life force is our eternal companion.
So with that in mind, let’s try our best to take what we are given in this life, and accept it. Find the gifts in it and have faith in it; Have enough faith in it to acknowledge that our limited blueprint of what life should be will sometimes miss the bigger picture.
The bigger picture, of which you are part of, is perfect. Surrender to it, while taking on the responsibility of a co-creator for a better world. We become co-creators of a better world when we consciously use the energy of our life force for the best of humanity and beyond.
Each human is a unique expression of a heavenly tone. No one else can play your tone. Feel your tone and share the music. You can do that by jumping off your personal cliff, and genereously sharing your lessons from the trip with others. It can bring massive uncertainty, lots of lessons and sometimes a false feeling of loneliness.
But in the end it’s the most thrilling thing. And you will also find other cliff jumpers on your journey. Take it from me.
🎶 The Ep Cliff is named after, and dedicated to,
Dr. Cliff Inkles of Life Power Wellness in New York.
Visit LifePowerWellness.Com for more 🎶