Recently I asked my coach Michael Neill how I could help my own coaching clients reach their goals even faster and more effectively.

He told me that in his experience, reminding people of who they really are helps create the most possibility for positive change in the shortest period of time.

He did NOT say to remind people of “the versions of themselves they hope they are” or “whatever they THINK they are” or “who they imagine their lover wants them to be” but to remind people who they really are.

This simple assignment freaked me out. I wondered if I would sound weird or bizarre delivering this message.

That’s why, for the past few days, I have slowed down to think about whether or not trying to grasp the concept, “you are God” or “you are pure spiritual energy in human format and so is everyone else” has been helpful for me to know in my own experience.

After the insecure, fear-creating thoughts settled, my mind quieted down enough for me to realize that OF COURSE this has been helpful for me to know. Knowing this has been a total game changer. It’s changed my whole experience of life. Duh.

I remember when this truth of human experience truly landed for me.

A few years ago I was really missing my partner who had left me several months earlier.

At the time, I had pretty much given up on our relationship but I still missed him and was trying HARD to distract myself from thinking about it.

I started flipping around the self help-y type information on reddit and found a really weirdly made youtube video by a guy named John.

He broke down why everyone, everything and everywhere has to be universal energy.

I gained the insight that if you are experiencing the system/universe from inside and have the ability to interact with it in any way– by definition you have to be a part of the system and not separate from it.

This means the truth is that you are part of the universe. You are not watching the universe. You ARE nature. You are not watching nature.

Your individual consciousness is spiritual energy just like everything else.

Afterward, a bunch of mystical experiences followed which strengthened this knowledge. I would have had to go totally unconscious to ignore what I was seeing for myself.

That’s when I “got” the spiritual truth behind what it means to be a god with a little “G.” And started knowing myself as part of the universe rather than simply as an observer of the material plane.

Before this point, I had been thinking I was “just an insignificant ant” watching a very large, expansive universe unfold in front of me. I thought I was essentially watching the system and not participating in it.

And, if you think you’re just an ant, it makes perfect sense to concern yourself with security and fear and believe all the scarcity thoughts that float through your mind and appear real.

If you’re just an ant, you’re small. Everything else is big. There are “real” threats.

If you’re God having a human experience, you’re untouchable. The concept of gaining experience and pursuing “risk” starts to seem like fun adventure and not a threat to life and existence itself.

Suddenly lots of imaginary personal limitations suddenly appear as absurd as they actually are.

Manipulating other ants to get insignificant ant things becomes about as exciting as learning parlor tricks when real magic is available.

If you have the keys to the car, you don’t have to fiddle around and do a bunch of complex procedures to get the engine running. You simply start the car.

Which leads me back to the simple, helpful truth Michael Neill reminded me to share on Monday.

Just in case no one has told you today, you are pure spiritual energy, aliveness in human form.

You are so much more powerful and vast than your personal stardust meat suit would suggest on the surface.

Much love,

Elizabeth Stone