Dear Alchemist,

Today is all about learning to tap in and listen to your inner guidance system, and stop looking to the external world for approval from a place of fear.

Forcing alignment, forcing connection, forcing things to happen… this rigidity and fear come from ego. The soul’s energy is present and free, not fearful. What is meant for you will feel natural.

There's a clear distinction between actively creating your own reality and taking aligned action, and forcing outcomes or acting out of fear. I create and work very hard. But when I notice it’s starting to feel too tense and rigid, I take that as a sign to step back, reassess, and ask… okay, where is this coming from? 

When we outsource our certainty and get into a loop of discouragement, it feels tense. It takes us out of our power. Those are all really helpful signals that remind us to refocus and put ourselves back in our power and alignment.

The less we fight the body and the more we listen, the more it teaches us. Here’s how.

Before we begin: the brand-new Soul Path Society community is OPEN! If you are a soul-led person who is ready to disidentify with your mind and get the support to create your dream reality, I can’t wait to connect with you inside. It’s open for founding members right now, so at 80 members, the price will rise to $33/mo. 💖

 ✨ Step 1: Check Your Sources ✨

When a thought feels rigid or tense… check its source! It’s usually coming from the ego and is not fully based in reality.

I'm often asked the question, “How can I stop thinking negatively?” If you’ve ever thought this (and it only caused more tension and rumination), I get it. But I want to invite you into a new way of thinking:

Thoughts are not meant to be controlled. Thus, they are not meant to be immediately believed. If you can’t control something, why would you immediately believe it? Why would you react to it in the same way?

You can not control the next thought that appears in your consciousness, but you can always choose who you practice being in response to that thought.

Everyone experiences negative thoughts, discomfort, uncertainty, fear … it’s all part of the human experience. Even your highest self experiences discomfort and challenges, because the duality of life is that it brings challenges. The challenges were never the problem.

The “problems”, or suffering, only arise through: 1) resistance, and 2) identification.

1. Resistance: This happens when you are hit with discomfort or a passing emotional state, and you immediately believe the analytical mind when it tells you things should be different than exactly how they are. I talk about this in more detail here.

   So, how can we practice non-resistance? By being friends with the present moment, no matter how it looks. It’s the understanding that joy will return. It is your birthright. You don’t have to grasp for it and avoid pain. All that exists is this current, wide-open present moment, so the only thing you need to do is be here, in it.

2. Identification: This is when you mistake the voice in your head for who you are. A thought or emotion flies by, and instead of recognizing it as a passing mental pattern, it becomes unconscious and is believed immediately.

For example:

• I'm feeling tense, therefore something must be wrong.

• I'm experiencing self-doubt, therefore I'm not capable of doing this.

• I'm feeling behind, therefore I'm actually behind.

Notice how quickly a temporary internal experience becomes a definitive statement about your identity or reality?

The moment you begin to disidentify with these thoughts, you create space. You can experience fear without being a fearful person. You can experience uncertainty without deciding that your future is uncertain.

Step 2: Invite Your Highest Self

✨ Into the Now ✨

Today I want to open you up to the idea that identity change can be instant. 

All it takes is one moment of realizing you are not the voice in your head. As said in step 1, you can create separation and space between you and your automatic patterns. You don't have to believe it immediately, and every passing moment is a new, wide-open opportunity to act differently.

Notice any thoughts of frustration, or urgency, or questioning in the mind, or any "ummm, it can't be that easy."

That! Right there! That's the analytical mind in action. That's not who you are. Stop trying to pass off its voice as your own. Redirect back to step 1.

Reject the idea that your highest self is some distant version of you that you need to work tirelessly toward becoming. It's a set of thoughts, behaviors, decisions, and responses that you can begin practicing now.

✨ Step 3: Get into Flow ✨

…and one of the most beautiful ways to access that version of yourself is through creativity (@ my Conscious Creator Cohort 🥰)!!

Creativity and anxiety can not exist at the same time. Anxiety comes from the energy of trying to predict, scramble, and control... whereas creativity invites you to play and experiment. Creativity is a gateway to access your inner freedom and inner child.

Creativity is the essence of human nature. When you learn to honor it (and not suppress it!), you begin to access possibilities that your analytical mind might never have considered. This isn’t just about art, content creation, or writing, either… You can get a creative idea that sparks your move to a new country, or a creative idea that changes your sense of style or the way you present or think about yourself.

Flow state also requires a detachment from outcomes. Rick Rubin, music producer and author of The Creative Act, speaks about the importance of needing to completely forget about the audience during the creative process. This is coming from someone whose work has been streamed billions of times across genres and the world, working with artists like The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lana Del Rey, and Adele… still telling us to completely forget about outcomes or how it will be perceived.

Your experiment for this week 🦋

1. Observe your automatic “BUT” statements: The analytical mind works in “but” statements. Every time you receive an intuitive nudge or desire or joyful idea and it gets immediately followed with a "but…”, pause. Ask yourself if this is a conditioned response rooted in fear. Is this something your highest self believes? Is this something you want to feed?

2. Invite your highest self (aka, your true self) into the present moment. What would it look like if you no longer looked at them as though they were separate from you? If you need a little dose of audacity to guide you here, watch my latest YouTube video.

If you’ve made it to the end of this letter, hit reply and tell me what you’re currently working on! I read every response. 💌 

And if you would like community, a system, and a place to get your personalized questions answered, join the Soul Path Society.

With so, so much love,

Emma Karólyna 💖