What We Do Inside and Outside

 You might wonder why you would be motivated to do anything if you're already content. Why bother having a job or even a relationship, if you are already filled with love and happiness? The answer is simple: love wants to express itself and enthusiasm wants to create.  Once the energy is unblocked and is flowing freely, personal needs are no longer your motivation. Your actions are the expression of love and gratitude for life.  Your whole life becomes an act of service.

Michael Singer, page 193

A New and Better Motivation

Love wants to express itself and enthusiasm wants to create....imagine living with that motivating force directing our every move.  Totally new ball game, eh? If what we do no longer comes from a place of lacking and need and desperation, than man it will have a totally different impact on the world, won't it?  I so want to be unblocked. I want to live in that higher state. 

Practice Getting to the Higher State

In his podacst, Working Inside to Raise Your Inner State, Michael Singer reminds us that the way to get to that higher state where our motivation is to simply express and create this  love, enthusiasm and joy within us is to stop working so much outside to fix what is broken inside. We need to, instead, do the inner work of noticing our tendencies, and relaxing into them and what is without judgement, blame or shame. It is a practice. We are bound to screw up a bit in the beginning and must also learn to notice, and relax into that as well. We really do not have to do anything but that.

There can be moments of disturbance but you don't have to do anything about them. They come and they go and they don't affect your energy flow, unless you let them. You'll come to realize that this energy inside you knows what it is doing. It is not only beautiful it is intelligent. If you let it, it will fix everything. The uprising energy will do all the inner work for you. Your job is to not  interfere- to surrender.  Singer, page 193

All is well.

Michael A. Singer ( 2022) living untethered. New Harbinger/ Sounds True.

Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( February 25, 2023) Working Inside to Raise Your Inner State. https://tou.org/talks/