What's up y'all.
Welcome back to another episode of Jake's Journal.
Sleepy morning downloads during my meditation has me bringing in this gem.
At the root of every single one of our challenges and problems is disconnection.
A few years ago when I turned 25,
I received the mission that was to become a,
This is like a personal mission of mine.
It's largely painted my world and also some of the work I do,
But to become a strong and connected masculine leader.
So the feminine and the child may feel safe,
Protected,
Provided for and led.
Now,
The term connected,
I'd always struggled with because it doesn't seem like something that's very marketable.
Interesting that I reject my own mission because it's not marketable.
But when we look at the root of any challenge we're facing,
I do believe that disconnect is at the heart of it.
You know,
If we were to truly feel connected to everyone and everything,
Like if you,
If you felt really deeply connected to nature,
Like it was a family member or it was even a part of you,
Or it was someone that you loved so dearly,
That level of connection,
How would you treat it?
Probably with a lot more respect and reverence and responsibility,
You feel responsible for it in a way.
There's a loyalty,
A dedication,
A devotion,
A love that you would have for this thing that you feel that deeply connected to.
So if we felt,
Imagine you feel this deeply connected to nature,
To mother earth.
What about to each other,
To other humans?
If you felt deeply connected to other people,
How would you treat the people in your life and in your world?
And at the core of interconnection or at this deep level of connection really is anything I do to you,
I am doing to myself.
Anything I do to myself,
I am doing to you.
And anything I do to nature,
I'm doing to both of us.
Go back,
Listen to that again if you need to,
But this is the essence of feeling connected,
Deeply,
Deeply connected is recognizing that if I'm going to cause you pain,
It's going to impact me unless I can deeply disconnect myself where I can learn to believe so fully,
Which is kind of the world we've been raised in Western culture,
Is that we are all on an island,
We're all individuals,
We are all so separated that I can,
I can,
You know,
I can hurt you,
I can harm you,
I can steal from you,
I can cheat on you,
I can cause you pain and it,
And I don't think that it hurts me or impacts me in any way.
When in reality,
When you notice just how deeply connected we all are,
You can't do something to someone else without it,
Without feeling some,
Some repercussion of it,
Without feeling entangled in it in some way.
Now we will look at any of the challenges that we face,
And this is almost the invitation to you guys is that to look at what every challenge I'm facing in my life,
Problem,
Challenge,
However you want to frame that.
But where is,
How is disconnection actually at the root?
Is disconnection at the root?
And this isn't,
This is my perspective.
So the invitation is for you to get curious about how this actually works.
But when we look at disconnection,
It's all,
I believe it's all rooted in disconnection because disconnect is the sacred wound,
The sacred wound of splitting or fracturing from the whole and feeling this loss of wholeness,
This loss of capital S self where I am,
I am whole,
I belong.
And as a result,
There's this disconnection from the sense of belonging,
A sense of fullness,
A sense of wholeness.
And so what we should,
And that gives rise to emotions of fear,
To not enough,
To emptiness,
To disconnect.
And as a result,
We go through our lives trying to fill this void,
Trying to fill this hole of not feeling enough of feeling empty,
Of feeling incomplete,
Of feeling like we don't belong.
And it's this never ending cycle of chasing something external to make ourselves feel full.
And so when we flip this over and look at the question,
Like,
What would make me feel,
What would deeply fulfill me?
What would fulfill the deepest part of me?
That question begins to pull on a thread that is much deeper than any,
Any small external achievement,
Because it redirects it inwards.
And really why I bring this whole thing is I think in order for us to be able to feel that deep sense of connection,
It requires us to slow down,
To slow down enough to notice,
To notice the sensation of being connected,
Because it's one thing to intellectually know it.
I can show you a bunch of different examples of how and why we are connected with the world,
You know,
From the imaging of our body and the way that it mirrors in the cosmos,
The way that nature is reflected in our body,
The way that we're made up of X percent water and the same handful of elements as the rest of the universe.
Yeah,
We're all connected.
I can show you that intellectually,
But can you actually sit with it long enough to feel it,
To feel it in your body,
To know that,
Wow,
Maybe how I do treat other people,
Maybe how I do treat myself matters because that ripples into the world.
Maybe the way I treat nature is actually impacting myself,
My kids,
My family.
And so just receiving that download of disconnect,
I'm wondering if that's the,
If that's the root cause,
The main band,
The main wound,
Then connection is on the other side of the coin,
Which would be the most healing,
The most life-giving,
The most fulfilling pursuit is to remember and to reconnect,
To do what we have to do to,
To connect back to ourselves,
To our heart,
To our nature,
To God,
To everyone,
Everything,
Everywhere,
And see what comes of that.
Because I have a feeling that when connection is at the core of our focus,
When we make connection a priority to ourselves,
To nature,
To other interconnection,
That that deep wound of disconnect of separation begins to heal.
And as a result,
There's a deeper sense of fullness,
Of relaxation,
Of levity,
Of joy,
Of peace than ever before.
And all of a sudden you can pursue your goals and dreams,
But it's not from the place of lack.
It's not from the place of trying to fill void.
It's from this,
This gnosis or this place of fullness already.
So to that,
I invite you to reconnect much love guys.
