On Being Atypical
This world in its current state - polarized, competitive, full of judgement and greed - makes sense to some people.
They wake up, watch the news, work a full day, head home in traffic, eat, sleep and do it all over the next day.
They don’t question this.
They don’t feel angst about the way things are.
Or, if they do feel angst, they seek to satisfy it by earning more, acquiring more, playing harder - striving to “win” at life.
They don’t like what they see is happening in the world, but they are resigned to it.
“That’s just the way it is,” they say.
And then...there’s us.
We can’t simply distract ourselves “playing to win” - not when there is so much pain and division on the planet.
We can’t pretend that this is okay. That this is the way it’s meant to be.
We know in our hearts that there is a different possibility...for everyone.
It may be a faint stirring. It may seem illogical.
But we can’t shake the feeling that this place could feel more like...home.
How do we get there from here?
That’s the big question.
We might not have the answer - but we do have a strong sense of what doesn’t work.
It doesn’t work to be oppositional and to push against what we see as problematic.
We've learned that what we oppose only gets stronger.
It doesn’t work to try to improve things through sacrifice and striving.
We’ve tried that and all it got us was burn out and compassion fatigue.
No, it’s pretty clear that cocreating the “more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible” (the title of a brilliant book by Charles Eisenstein) will NOT be a linear/cause and effect proposition.
Instead, this more beautiful world can only be “evoked” from the inside out.
In other words, if we want to cultivate an inclusively fulfilling experience of “home” on planet earth…
...we must begin by coming home to ourselves.
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Author
Elyse Hope Killoran
Resourcing Catalyst
Having felt like a misfit from an early age - too curious; too sensitive; too intense - Elyse was drawn (simultaneously) to intense academic study (graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude) as well as the non-academic realms of metaphysics and healing. After establishing a significant online presence in the early 2000's - with over 40,000 people playing the online Choosing Prosperity Game - in 2014 Elyse followed a strong impulse to put her courses on hold and, to instead, dive deeply into multiple dimensions of healing, embodiment and alchemical teachings. After spending the past 6 years mastering a variety of tools and techniques that enable people to "recalibrate" their nervous systems - Elyse launched this initiative. The time has come for us to a) come together to b) unhook ourselves from the collective default states of "stress, struggle and striving" and c) anchor ourselves instead in the unwavering, visceral experience of being "at home" - in our lives, in our relationships and in the world.
