The Turning Point of Awareness

We Are Capable of Anything

We are all capable of anything.

That’s something we don’t always sit with long enough.

Not just the beautiful parts of ourselves—
but the reactive, the indulgent, the avoidant, the destructive too.

And when we’re honest about that…
something begins to shift.

Because instead of fearing it,
we start to see it clearly.

Nature Has Always Been Showing Us

Nature has always reflected this back to us.

The ocean gives life… and takes it.
The sun warms… and it burns.
The desert looks still, but it is constantly reshaping itself through harsh conditions.

There is no apology in nature for duality.
Only balance.

And when we begin to recognize that same duality within ourselves,
we’re not becoming something new…

we’re becoming aware.

And that awareness is an awakening to ourselves.

Awareness Changes How We Move

Awareness… changes how we move.

Not because we suddenly become perfect,
but because we begin to see the difference between
what we are capable of…
and what is actually aligned for us.

When Familiarity Becomes Identity

Because we’ve all done this—

We’ve called something “who we are”
simply because we’ve done it long enough.

Like walking the same path through a forest over and over again
until it starts to feel like the only way through.

Not because it is…
but because it’s familiar.

And over time, that familiarity becomes what we perceive as identity.

Without us ever really questioning it.

Childlike vs. Childish

In this process of awareness and contrast, I’ve noticed how easy it is for us to confuse being childlike
with being childish. Which can be a roadblock to awareness.

To be childlike is to be open.
Curious.
Present.
Fully alive inside the moment.

Which breeds a true sense of awareness.

But being childish is a lower frequency…

and we’ve all touched that too.

It’s when we grasp.
When we want without pause.
When we reach for something simply because it’s there
without considering what it creates.

“I Want It Now”

This divergence of realization often reminds me of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—

She “wanted it now.” Without regard to what was best for her and she fell the down the garbage shoot, because even the squirrels deemed her a bad nut. Funny… in reflection. But we have all been there.

And if we’re honest…
we all remember moments like that in our own way.

Not always out loud.
But internally.

The alignment feels off in one way or another, but we don’t listen.

Chasing what feels good in the moment,
without asking if it actually gives us life.

When Everything Starts to Feel Like Ours

When we’re moving without awareness,
everything can start to feel like it belongs to us.

Every desire.
Every impulse.
Every opportunity.

And we don’t always stop to ask—

Is this truly aligned?
Or is this just something I haven’t questioned yet?

The Shift Into Discernment

So when awareness comes in, quietly, like the sun rising over the mountains -
something softens… and sharpens at the same time.

Just like the sun.

We start to feel the difference. The light shines on us in a new way. We see with a new vantage point.

Between what expands us…
and what fragments us.

Between what brings us peace…
and what simply distracts us.

What Was Never Ours to Carry

And we begin to realize—

Not everything we’ve been carrying
was ever ours to begin with.

Some of it was learned.
Some of it was inherited.
Some of it was just repeated long enough
that it felt like truth.

We Are Here to Choose

But we are not here to be everything we are capable of.

That is the misnomer of the feel-good statements we tell ourselves.

We are simply here to choose.

To choose what aligns.
To choose what sustains us.
To choose what brings us back into ourselves
instead of pulling us further away.

A Different Kind of Freedom

And that kind of freedom feels different.

It’s not loud.
It’s not chaotic.
It doesn’t demand more and more.

It feels steady.

Like standing in the middle of the ocean,
feeling the movement beneath you
without being pulled under.

Or like walking through the desert,
where there is nothing extra to hide behind—
and somehow, that simplicity brings clarity.

The Real Question

In this place, we’re not teetering between extremes anymore.

We’re learning how to be with ourselves
fully.

And maybe that’s the real shift—

Not asking, “Can I do this?”
but gently asking,

“Does this feel true for me?”

What Alignment Feels Like

Because when something is truly aligned,
it doesn’t just feel good for a moment.

It settles.

It steadies.

It brings us back home to ourselves.

And that is the true liberation that sitting with a moment long enough for awareness to shine brings.

Returning to Self

From that place…

We don’t need to force discipline.
We don’t need to restrict or control.

We simply stop reaching for what was never truly ours.

We remember.

And we revel in the wild freedom that brings.

We stop fighting ourselves, the misalignment, the control of being subconsciously tied to things not meant for us - because awareness shifted our vision and now our frequency is resonating with our inner truth.

Reflection

May we each take the time to sit with these reflections and let them softly speak to our soul…

Where have we mistaken familiarity for truth?
What have we been carrying… that was never truly ours?

It is here we begin to encounter the turning point.

Mantra

May we always come back to this intuitive place in the moments our inner source is seeking refinement.

I am aware of all that I am capable of,
and I choose only what brings me back to myself.

Ashe,

Your Wahine of the Sun