15 Jun Breaking free from the prison of the mind
Lately, I’ve been sitting with something deep.
Stillness.
Not the kind we force, but the kind that finds us when we finally stop running from ourselves. This stillness has shown me something: we’re often not afraid of life, we’re afraid of what we’ll feel if we stop distracting ourselves from it.
For most of my life, I thought safety meant control. Predictability. Anchors. Systems. Beliefs that could hold me together. But now I see that the deepest safety doesn’t come from clinging, it comes from letting things flow. Not just letting go, letting things flow, unfold, and unravel.
In a recent meditation, I dropped into a space that felt like free fall. No ground. No reference point. But instead of fear, I felt a kind of soft, boundless liberation. I wasn’t losing myself… I was finally meeting myself, without all the layers. Here’s something I wrote to capture that experience:
The Free Fall
We break free from the prison of the mind not by force…but by finally sitting still. Stillness. That terrifying, sacred pause where the noise dies down and truth rises up. We’ve been trained to run from it. To avoid what we feel. To keep moving. To keep numbing. We fear the unknown because we were taught to fear what we cannot control. We were told that safety lies in boundaries, in certainty, in staying small. But the heart…the heart knows differently.
Liberation doesn’t come with endless effort; it comes when you stop clinging. When you fall not into chaos, but into the vastness of your own being. And yes, it feels like a free fall. No anchors. No old stories. Just space. Breath. God. We fear losing ourselves, but what if what we’re losing was never us to begin with?
Religion tried to tell us who we need to be. Ego tries to protect us from who we are. But awakening…Awakening shows you who you’ve always been. Not too much. Not broken. Not separate. Just sky. Vast. Still. Radiant.
And this is what awakening has started to reveal: we aren’t here to fit ourselves into someone else’s version of life. We’re here to remember the truth of who we are, beneath all the conditioning, the stories, even the spiritual identities we attach to for safety.
So don’t be afraid to fall. Don’t be afraid to feel. There is no bottom here. Only freedom.
The Shift
This silence, so vast, it shattered everything I thought I knew about who I was, how life works, what it means to be safe, to be seen, to be me. I had lived so long within the prison of the mind, identifying with my thoughts, my pain, my roles, my story. I tried to get it right. I tried to be good. To do the things that would finally make me feel worthy. Still, something was missing. Until I stopped trying, and like that, a clarity beyond imagination, a sense of relaxation deeper than anything I have ever felt, just took over. There was nothing to protect anymore, because I was at peace with everything exactly as it is in this moment. Because in truth, it couldn’t be any different.
The Unfolding
Since that moment of profound clarity, I’ve watched layer after layer fall away. I’ve watched fears evaporate, judgments soften, and self-consciousness dissolve into air. Things that once triggered anxiety, like crowds, noise, and intensity, now feel like clouds passing through an open sky. And my heart is opening. Not in a poetic way, in a real, physical way. With tears. With love for strangers. With a fullness I didn’t know I was capable of feeling.
As I am guiding others through this terrain, something is becoming so clear: when we break down the walls around our hearts, everything shifts. Everything. Our energy changes. Our perception changes. Our relationships change. And for many of us, even reality itself begins to reorganize.
What liberation requires
The path to awakening is about unlearning. Unwinding from the stories, the conditioning, the spiritual “shoulds,” and the societal scripts. It requires presence and a radical willingness to feel. To let go of control. To die to who you think you are, and to discover something vaster, quieter, more true.
Practices that support this process include somatic therapy, inner parts work, meditation, mindfulness, deep inner listening, and learning to trust your inner authority beyond the duality of “good” and “bad.” This is a spiritual embodiment that is lived, raw, and real, not bypassing it. To stop engaging in thoughts that reject you or others. To break free from the prison of your mind is that. Discipline in awareness of thoughts, thinking, and a constant redirection to direct experience, to what is happening right now, in this moment.
Disclamer
This path is not for the faint of heart. Awakening is not a spiritual high, or all love and light. It’s a radical unraveling of everything you thought you were. If you choose to step in, expect change. Deep, cellular, identity-shifting change. It may not be comfortable, but it will be real, and it will be worth it.
Ready?
If you are ready — truly ready — to meet yourself beyond the masks, to live with clarity, depth, and aliveness, then reach out. I am here to walk with you. Contact me for 1:1 somatic therapy and coaching. Together, we’ll move the energy, dissolve the stuckness, release the trauma and conditioning, and open you to what’s been waiting for you all along.