4 September

An experiment I sometimes ask people to try. We’re all familiar with astronauts floating in space. What’s much less well known is that there is no actual spot where ‘outer space’ ends and Earth begins. When you stand on the surface of the Earth, you’re still ‘in space’, it’s just that now you have a planet pushing up underneath you. This is another rebooting exercise. Many of us believe that the Earth is dragging us downwards every second, and we have to battle against that to stay upright. Which is very tiring, we feel heavy and we feel the strain of working against that heaviness. It’s not true though, you are still in space, just like an astronaut, and the Earth is coming up underneath you and *pushing* you upwards, every second. So the reboot is, see if you can go about your day in everything you do assuming you are floating in space, like an astronaut (because you are), but with the planet constantly coming up underneath you, and pushing you from underneath. Change your experiential baseline to “here I am floating in space, and there’s that planet underneath me, constantly pushing up into me”. Let go of the holding up stuff, let that pushing up go right through you. It’ll ‘hold you up’ automatically, though there’s no holding here. It’s a pushing. It’s blissful, effortless ease, the ‘weight of the world’ disappears.