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What is this human experience?
What are we here for?
Why am I here? What is my purpose?
These are questions I tend to ask myself and Spirit a lot.
Maybe too much.
I often end up in frustration again and again.
The logical part of my mind and my very analytical Virgo side desperately wants the answer.
Especially now as we’re seeing the rise of AI which will only speed up our technological advancement as a human collective.
Do you think about this at all? What do you come up with?
I recently watched Chimp Empire on Netflix, narrated by our fellow King Mahershala Ali.
I was blown away. Not by the fact these creatures share 98.8% of our DNA and exhibit a lot of the same behaviors as us (especially around power lol).
But by the mere fact that their primal instinct is to survive by spending most of their time looking for food and taking care of the young.
It feels so simple and natural.
A part of me watched them in envy because as humans we just love to complicate shit.
It feels like we’re all racing towards somewhere.
I notice this in myself all the time when I’m rushing.
Where am I racing towards? Why am I rushing?
I then notice how tight my body is and notice I’m barely breathing.
Then I take a massive breath and return to the present moment.
Because that’s truly all I have right now.
I’m navigating a massive wave of shame that always comes when I feel like I don’t know what I’m here for.
It happens over and over again in my life.
I wanted to share this because I had this strong intuitive hit that others are feeling the exact same way.
This message is not for the positive psychology folks. This is for the people who are actually feeling their hearts in this moment and present with all that we’re holding as a human collective.
We don’t rest.
All of us are tired and yet our biggest difficulty is admitting that.
We want to jump to AI yet we have not even fully integrated our creation of the internet.
When I watch the Chimp Empire and think about the first Homo Sapiens that arrived 300,000 years ago, I’m like shit - we have come a very long way.
I have no idea what’s in store for us and that’s what I try to remind everyone.
Every leader you know from our fellow Queens ( Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama) to Twitter’s new CEO is winging it, meaning none of us really knows what the next moment, minute, hour, day, year, or decade will bring.
We’re all figuring this out together.
This is what I remind myself which allows me to give myself GRACE.
Grace for myself is the biggest practice.
I deeply wish I wasn’t so hard on myself.
My biggest prayer for myself is to learn how to be proud of myself.
I’m still trying to figure out how to be proud of the fact that I introduced meditation in a revolutionary new way to tens of thousands of people all around the world.
My belief is the more I rest, the more I can learn how to be proud of myself which will allow me to rest more.
That’s my biggest prayer for you as well. For you to be proud of everything you have done up to this point for yourself and your community. Maybe even getting out of bed this morning (which was hard for me too!).
P.S - I’m very interested in how AI can help the mental health crisis we’re in and have been spending time with my engineering hat back on exploring ML (Machine Learning) as I look for my next full-time gig. If you’re interested in this area as well - let me know!
Blessings on your healing journey
Julio // HERU