The Well of Life:
The Source of Everything we
Deeply Desire?
Life is a beautiful experience. It might not seem like it sometimes when we are stressed out or feeling rejected even if these are just occasional lows in an otherwise 'OK' life.
Unfortunately, most of us decide to look around outside of ourselves to find, add to or control the beautiful qualities we desire in our lives - simply because it appears obvious and easier. Hence we miss the opportunity to connect with ourselves at a deeper level and discover our most beautiful qualities...
The Well of Life
Imagine for a moment what it would be like if we each had our own personal well from which we drank – we can only drink from our own well - and what we drank would dictate our  experience of life: our emotions, our underlying feelings of well-being and self-worth.
Recognising this, you would probably want to maintain your well in a very healthy state, removing anything that may contaminate it and give rise to 'bad' feelings.
You might go further and add 'good' things to it, such as 'Love Drops', 'Peace Potion' and 'Happiness Enhancer' to make sure it gave you everything you wanted. These additives make the water rich and exciting and so you feel good. However, after a while the effect of the additives mysteriously reduced and you need ever increasing quantities just to maintain the quality you desire, and even add stranger things to your well, (almost anything that raised the quality of your well and your life). You may become so keen to improve the quality of your inner being that it becomes a big part of your life, and you spend most of your free time ‘managing’ your well in order to get the results you want.
However, amazingly most people are not even aware that the contents of the well determine their experience of life. Their wells become waste bins, the water gets contaminated and their drink becomes toxic. Still they remain ignorant of the true source of their lack of fulfilment, instead preferring to blame external events, or just bad luck, for how they feel. You can try to tell them that it is their well which is the cause, but may find they are too busy trying to deal with the troublesome external events to take any notice, maybe promising to look at the well once they have sorted out their ‘real’ life problems - they will get round to it when they have ‘more time’.
In truth, all the wells are being constantly replenished from below with all the beautiful qualities anyone could ever wish for such as Love, Joy and Peace. You have never noticed this before, as you were too busy adding nice things and removing bad stuff from your well. It is only once you stop trying to control the content of your well that you realise its true nature – a constantly renewing source of simple beautiful feelings bringing you fulfilment and self-esteem, and given a little time, dissolving any of that bad stuff by itself.
You not only receive all these benefits just by drinking from your well, you are also freed up from your ‘well maintenance programme’ to truly take the time to enjoy them. Once you let go of the need to control your inner experience of life, you find you have a beautiful life and everything you deeply wanted…
So if you are constantly adding 'stuff' to your well so you can feel better about yourself and your life, it may be time to give it a rest. Instead, let go of the need to control how you feel; just connect with yourself to become more aware about what is really going on for you in that moment!
Recognise that letting go of control also means allowing any 'bad' feelings to come, stay and go as they please, as well as welcoming in all the lovely cosy stuff - just connect with what is there for you in each moment.
Then life starts to flow by itself, and you simply connect with yourself and enjoy the beauty of the journey.
Hope to see you soon
Best Wishes
Love
Ankur
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