Who is the Driver in your Life?

To be honest, I never used to think about this kind of things before. It happened gradually. I think it was the yoga, mostly. But also the big bad things that happen in life where you find yourself trying to find a meaning to what’s happening to you, if you see what I mean.

After much reading, listening, and contemplating all I could find on life’s meaning in the main religions and cultures, it all boils down to one thing: the soul must be in the driver seat to live a life that is in harmony with the laws of the universe (whatever that means). More or less everyone agrees that the soul is what defines us intrinsecally, not the mind, not the emotions, and not the body. The soul (or spirit, depending on the translations) is the unchangeable part of us that transcends death and joins the afterworld.

Therefore, a lot of cultures focus on listening to the soul rather than the other parts. Not only does it help making coherent life choices, it also helps for issues about boundaries, relationships etc. Also, soul is in constant contact with the divine, the whole, or whatever you call the original soup from which all souls come and where all souls return, which is according to all a place of infinite beauty, peace, and possibilities… Who wouldn’t want to live from a place of hope, love and harmony?

However, that’s not what I was taught being a child in our western society. I was taught to use my mind and my body, to ignore my emotions and any pain or tiredness signals from my body (I’m sure a lot of you will relate), and effectively, to put the mind and only the mind in the driver seat. Society (at least in France) also largely told us that spirituality was some kind of backwater thing that people should not invest in if ever possible, probably as a historical effect of the revolution who all but erased the power of the churches. I did have a religious education, but it was more about rules to follow than anything deep such as soul or death or life’s meaning.

The thing is, while focusing on the mind was supposed to free us of religious slavery by the powers that be, we in reality exchanged one disempowerment for another. Focusing on the mind led us down the path of burnout, mental illness, loss of deep meaning in life. The mind being very good at keeping us safe, it also tends to categorize things in safe/not safe categories, leading us down the road of avoidance where new and unknown things are deemed bad, and anything strange and different must be suppressed. Society has become all at once very limiting and excluding of whatever is different than what is deemed “acceptable”. Unnamed and repressed emotions rule the game, fear and anger are everywhere when decisions are made. Everyone is fighting with everyone. Low category people or living forms are hurt or destroyed just because.

It’s in all the little things… the lack of consideration for our humanness, for beauty, for life… The obsession for material things as only benchmark of success (even if all studies show that dying people mainly focus on relationships at the end). The lack of education about emotional management and body management and spiritual management makes us like a table that has only one strong leg, no wonder we feel so fragile… And this at a time where we are probably going to live great turmoils in the next ten years at least.

Strangely, I have also found people openng up more and more to unconventional things such as crystal healing in the last fifteen years. Knowledge is much more accessible. AI is infused with spiritual beliefs, to the point I had the feeling I was speaking to a version of the Akashic records. The veil between the worlds is thining, the energy is higher and more accessible than it was before. Something is happening.

This is the time to connect with your soul. It will give you the strenght and the flexibility that you will need going forward. It will givee you joy, freedom, hope, and the stars in your eyes that will be with you all your life. It will give you clarity and purpose. It will make you whole, connecting all the dots, finding balance between your body, your mind, your emotions and your spirit. And that is invaluable.