Your practices are still there, but the life in them is gone. You show up each morning, as you always have. But what once felt alive now feels flat, a routine performed more from fear than from joy.

You've done the work. Years of it. The classes, the workshops, the morning pages, the meditation cushion worn thin from your dedication. You've optimized your habits, upgraded your mindset, and transformed your limiting beliefs.

And yet...

There's this flatness. Your practices feel like going through the motions. That book that used to light you up sits unopened on your nightstand for months. The morning journal feels like homework. The meditation cushion feels foreign beneath you.

You tell yourself you're not disciplined enough or evolved enough. That if you just tried harder, got back on track, recommitted...

The toxic loop begins. You force yourself back to practices that feel dead. It feels awful—like dragging a corpse around, hoping it will come back to life.

But underneath all this self-attack lives a deeper belief: that you're incomplete. Something's wrong. Something's broken. And these practices exist to fix that brokenness.

What if the entire premise is wrong?

What if you were never incomplete to begin with?

What if the practices stopped working because they've done their job? What if, as Michelangelo did with David, they chipped away at what needed to go, leaving only what belongs now—the something new that wants to unfold?

Maybe you don't need to sit for 45 minutes every morning anymore. Maybe it's time for open eyes and connecting to nature. Time to be with others and sense the relational field.

The new may not trumpet its arrival. It may whisper.

And sometimes it's more than a whisper- it's the glowing ember of desire. Life energy flowing in you, calling you toward something different.

A pull toward the forest instead of the meditation cushion. An urge to call a friend instead of journaling alone. A curiosity about something you've never tried.

We've been taught to dampen desire, ignore it, and override it with discipline. But what if desire is exactly the guidance system you need?

When you stop resurrecting the dead, you can finally feel what wants to be born.

Sometimes that ember needs rekindling. Sometimes you need help recognizing the call.

But it's there. Waiting for you to trust it instead of forcing what no longer serves.

What's Next?

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