You are well, period
Everyone on Earth. Essentially. Always.
There are no exceptions, caveats, conditions, or rules to remember and there is absolutely nothing you have to do—nothing you even can do—to make it more or less true.
Are you skeptical? If you are noticing that in this very moment you are most certainly not in touch with your innate wellbeing, I hear you. But ask yourself this: If wellbeing and peace of mind are not home base, why do you fight so hard to return there when you’re not there? If stress and mental chaos were home base they would feel like home, wouldn’t they? They might feel unpleasant, but they would be natural, familiar, and comfortable on some level.
Stress and mental busyness go against your nature and that’s why you struggle to “fix” them. That’s why you scramble to return home, to the wellness into which you were born.
Rather than assuming that you have no innate wellbeing, consider instead that you might simply be experiencing a whole mess of personal thinking which appears to cloud your perfect, natural state. When you’re not experiencing your emotional wellness it’s only because you are caught up in otherwise arbitrary and habitual thought. Those moments of supreme peace you sometimes experience are who you naturally are. When you’re experiencing anything else, you’re simply in a fog of thought.
– Excerpt from Being Human: Essays on Thoughtmares, Bouncing Back, and Your True Nature. Available now.
