02/03/2026
“Without an objective or an ideal to reach, we can honestly begin to listen.
When there’s no outcome to achieve, no experience to produce, no sign to confirm we’re doing it right, the nervous system often mobilizes in search of a new foothold. In time, as we begin to orient through a direct felt connection with what’s here, the body gradually finds ground in the dark.
And in that movement, safety begins to return, not the conditional safety of external validation or social referencing that keeps the system orienting outward, but the telt sense of safety that arises directly from within.
As we listen from that space, the darkness becomes a companion rather than a threat. The body begins to register finer details: the subtler rhythms and sotter sensations that had been hidden beneath striving - the textures of darkness, the sounds of silence, the weight of stillness.
As effort relaxes, awareness deepens. We start to sense the small, quiet communications within - the impulses long held in waiting, the voices once silenced beneath vigilance, and the subtle intelligence of our being quietly reawakening. In this intimacy, something unfolds that isn’t shaped by culture, effort, or expectation. It’s the natural, spontaneous movement of life meeting itself in the dark.
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