Selling Ice to an Eskimo
January 23, 2021
Q: What should I know or contemplate regarding today’s hypnosis session?
A: The knowledge, the truth, that one is not alone in his/her misery but always serenaded and accompanied by a host of being of light and like souls in challenges can be of solace when faced with the otherwise meaningless lens of viewing life. If to experience is the goal—to know more of oneself—then not only good times will do, but to see whether one’s truth stands tests of destitution or destruction or drought. If it does, it’s a truth worth building one’s concept of self and worth on for it won’t run or wash away when assaulted for it knows no seasons or rather knows all seasons for it is scared of none for it never changes. These are not transient truths like, “I love ice cream,” and then one becomes lactose intolerant and no longer gets the same thrill. What might have seemed like an irrefutable truth was made false by time and change of circumstances. “I am not alone,” is one of those truths that cannot change for we are friend unto ourself even if there were none else. Seek friendships and teachers that you enjoy, sure, but who also direct you back to yourself. Who reflect that you are worthy and complete in love—not saying that you need them to reach complete understanding or joy, but rather seek to accompany you on your journey as friends and encouragement and refreshment. Those that try to create a need for themselves in you are similar to the “business-savvy” concept of selling ice to an Eskimo. They purport the false teaching that they need to condition the world around them that they need them, that they can somehow fill an empty place the consumer hadn’t known was empty. Be more like the encourager, to yourself and others, not that people need you but that you are here to support them and yourself, that you are an ally and really embody that like Courtney does with her business/dharma. She trusts the Universe to use her to help in any way she can, allowing herself to be cared for as she takes care of others and concerns herself with their path to well-being which is the opposite of trying to instill a sense of need-being. You are enough. You are loved, whether acting and doing or quiet and receiving. Trust. Love. Be.