Definition: The Clearing is the metaphorical and literal place of renewed vision and vigor, where the path becomes known and inspiration carries your resilience forward. It is the open expanse, the place of surrender, and the presence needed for you to meet your Self once again.
Your ability to come to the clearing of your own life is in direct proportion to your ability to change your mind. Free yourself from old stories, limited perspectives, and patterns that no longer serve you. As you will see in this issue, this freedom often comes on the heels of hard moments, harsh awakenings, and reframing what is in front of you to change the course of your life.
Pronoia, the mindset that everything is working in your favor, is simple in form and incredibly complex in function. This is the clearing unto itself, it is the threshold from which you can change your life. But how do we come to the path of pronoia in a world much more practiced and geared towards paranoia? Here is an ingredient list and resources to guide you toward a renewed mindset that may just be the beautiful conspiracy you have been waiting for.
A list of ingredients for Pronoia:
- Whether you think something is or is not, you are right.
- Free your mind by feeling your mind. We are not thinking-first beings, but feeling-first beings. You can’t think your way into transformation, so you must embody the lesson in order to integrate it. This transmutes knowledge into wisdom.
- Hard moments bring clarity. Your adversity is your breakthrough and then your strength.
- Cultivate a growth mindset, nothing is fixed, everything changes. Necessity is the mother of invention, grow from your setback, adapt to your evolution.
- Seek new perspectives. If you never find new vistas, you will always see the same view, and it will become all you know.
- Manifestation is mindset + actions = aligned reality. Articulate your desires in all things, spoken and unspoken, and it will become your experience.
- Belief alone isn’t enough. To formulate a belief implies that you know something to be true, which promotes a fixed mindset. But add trust, which is to surrender control or needing to know, and you get faith. With this definition of faith, you can see the expanse of possibilities and embrace what you don’t know, which is the catalyst to the clearing.
- Reminder: Everything really is working in your favor, because the universe has your back.
Mix these notions together, embody them, and you enter into the lighter state of pronoia, the clearing where you can see without obstruction that truly everything is working out just as it is meant to.
Resources for added flavor:
- A song, The Unspeakable World, Adi Golstien
- A guided meditation, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Let go and trust the universe.
- A podcast, Mel Robbins, Episode: Simple Mindset Shifts that Transform your Body, Energy, and Life.
- A TED talk, Grit: The power and passion of perseverance, Angela Duckworth (The book linked here)
- A book, Atomic Habits, James Clear
- A lecture, Faith begins where belief ends, Alan Watts
- A lecture, How our perception shapes our reality, Alan Watts
- A book, How to change your mind, Michael Pollen
