In Part 1 of this article, I described a life-changing experience that I had over thirty years ago and the insight that came from that experience. I call this insight, The Law of Perception. To sum it up briefly, it says “Your current experience is the result of where you are coming from at the moment.”

In other words, what you are thinking, feeling, believing, remembering, and even the state of your body at the moment is a filter through which you extract specific experiences from the infinite number that are available to you at any given time. That insight has been so rich that I’ve spent the better part of thirty years unpacking its meaning. If you are interested in learning more about that insight, you can refer to “Two Insights That Change Your Life: Part 1.”

Now, that first insight set me off on a quest to understand the factors involved in “where I am coming from at the moment.” If I understood those, I might gain more power to change my experience for the better. So I dove into studying philosophy, psychology, phenomenology, and the like.

That led me to this second experience. A few years into that quest, between undergrad and grad school, I took a trip out West-to the “Big Sky Country” in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. For thirty days, I drove, hiked, and camped far away from the city life that I had grown up with on the East Coast. I visited Canyonlands, the Grand Canyon, the Grand Tetons, and the Rockies.

At first, I was actually a little terrified of the spaciousness, the silence, the lack of what I was used to, and the lack of human and technological stimulation. I walked for hours and sat with my fears in the vast open space of that landscape. It felt eerie to be without all the lights and busy-ness of “the human world.” One thing I noticed in the silence was that my thoughts and feelings seemed to broadcast like a bullhorn.

Then, after a few weeks, I came to enjoy the absence of the things I had known. There was freedom in not eating the same food, seeing the same sights, or doing the same things. There was freedom in all this space, silence, and doing nothing productive.

My mind quieted down. My body relaxed. My feelings chilled out. I had thoughts like “What is the absolute minimum that I need?” And I began to feel that I might actually be much happier with having less, doing less, thinking less, and just being present and going with the flow of life without detailed plans for every little moment.

At the end of that month, I remember sitting on the airplane coming home with the deepest feeling of peace, clarity, and comfort that I’d ever known. I felt that everything was perfect exactly as it was. I felt whole and complete.

When I arrived home from that trip I was a bit overwhelmed with the return to “mega-stimulation.” I didn’t want to lose that experience of inner peace. I wanted it to stay with me. If I lost it, I wanted to know how to “get it back,” to repeat that experience and grow it-without living in the wilderness.

So, I began to investigate “what that was” and “how to cultivate it.” I learned that this experience was described in many traditions, with many different words, but the same idea. It was an experience of Inner Essence. Some years later I learned to describe it like this:

Underneath it all, under your thoughts, feelings, memories, and experiences, you are a peaceful, loving, presence. You are part of One Life that we all share. And this Essential experience is available to you at any time.

I call this The Law of Essence: You can tap into that peaceful, loving, presence at any time and, when you come from there, you experience who you are and what you truly desire.

My quest then became: How do I come from my Inner Essence? How do I practice “that” and grow “that” in my life?

Now, you could say, well, you already “are that,” in fact, that is who you are, so what’s there to practice? While there’s some truth there, it’s also true that we forget and that we can grow in remembrance, understanding, and realization. That became my quest.

This quest took me into T’ai Chi, Qigong meditation, Kriya Yoga, HeartMath, Bio-feedback, Reiki, and numerous other arts and techniques. Through this journey, I found a way to put together what I learned in a daily practice that shifts me into an integrated Essence experience of heightened awareness and powerful internal energy. I’ve discovered that, when “I come from there,” life unfolds in the best possible ways.

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Keywords: transformation, change your life, personal growth, power of perception, limiting beliefs, essence