While it can be fun and freeing – you don’t have to fly to faraway locales, seek retreats, or hit the road…
All the adventure, recharging, and magic you seek, isn’t someplace else. It’s within.
I’ve been having visions of the RV life dancing in my head as I embrace the mystery of an unfolding, entirely new chapter. Why not roll with it? Explore the open road of possibilities?
And while the allure of new travel horizons can be so tempting…
I’m leaning toward a wildly different sort of adventure.
I’ve decided to take an extended soul-cation – to really tune into and live out the metamorphis, the adventure of my inner-life, as it comes into a new full expression.
And believe me, as someone who’s more comfortable out in the wilds or on the road, this decision didn’t come lightly.
Yes, to find peace with settling into a home-centered routine, I had to use the Clarity Process I use in coaching and consulting, I guided myself to get clear on my Heart’s deepest desire now – which can be an on-going, fine-tuning process.
I first had to get clear on my inner-battle. My inner-escape artist (aka adventurer) was really rooting to hit the road. And yet, another part of me wasn’t at peace with the idea this time. Or maybe this time I was actually listening…
There was an era when new life adventures were my go-to. Some were an all-out quick escape route. Others, I hoped, would bring the inner-joy, fulfillment and magic I was truly seeking. I hoped they’d be life-changing.
Yet, after the adventure, my life, my habits and patterns, my daily peace and happiness level… didn’t significantly change. Sometimes I was recharged – for awhile.
As a whole, the adventure buzz wore off pretty quickly. And reality hit even harder. Especially with drained finances to top it off.
And then, one clear day, I stopped my escaping, “using” the adventure drug, and “chasing external happiness.”
I began to explore and truly open to the life within, wherever I was. And I began to discover a different kind of joy ride as I began following inner-bliss through some surprising in-roads and explorations.
It’s where the true adventure, the inner-life, and the inner-hero (or inner-goddess or… whatever lights you up), was born and lived life out in multi-dimension and full presence, like life was suddenly in high-def color.
And no, while life, the ups and downs, the healing, transformation, change and growth – is not always a thrill ride or instant gratification fix – showing up for it and living it in heart-centered awareness and presence – became more and more satisfying, and empowering. And long-term satisfaction settled in.
A river of contentment ran continuously through all the waves and weather patterns of fleeting emotions. And life’s chaotic ride mellowed out.
Now days, I’m not (quite) as impulsive to jump on the adventure wagon. I know I’ll explore and travel, when it springs from within and synchs with life.
It’s about recognizing an inner call to adventure as full and present joy – not as an escape or seeking to fill a void or scratch that restless itch of inner-dissatisfaction.
This season I’m content knowing my current big adventure is taking seed, and playing out on the inner-stage – and I see signs of a new authentic (and amazing) outer-life emerging.
There’s new momentum stirring within. I’m feeling alive and excited again as I’m opening to something simply sublime on a new level… and I’m constantly reminded life is oh-so-good. Now. IN the unfolding.
Right now, this is where I’m called to be. In more authenticity and high color presence than ever. And I don’t want to miss a single moment.
When we stop seeking external gratification, or chasing happy, and instead go within, and allow our heart to fully open to the wonder of each precious moment… life becomes the truly fulfilling adventure it is meant to be.
(I’ll keep you posted on my unfolding whole-hearted adventure… stay tuned!)
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