Which game are you playing?

What game of life are you playing?

Are you playing the version where you have to curate a perfect version of things out there in the world, like you’re building the perfect house of cards? Only to find that when you get there, you instantly feel like you have to protect everything.

And it makes sense, right? If our feelings of peace or contentment or freedom are coming from a certain orientation of things ‘out there’, in the world, of course we would protect them. And this is what we’re taught.

Just like in the analogy or the metaphor of the house of cards, then we don’t want to breathe. We don’t want to move. We don’t want to mess things up.

But what if freedom and contentment and security didn’t have to be conditional in that way?

What if you didn’t have to make a deal with life? What if it were possible for you to connect to a security, now, in this moment. Something that never changes something that doesn’t come and go? Something that’s always available.

And of course, that’s you.

If we play the game of life from this deep recognition of true self, of knowing who we are, seeing our connection to everything — things are different.

We can save the money or create the house or whatever it might be, but we don’t feel so highly pressured and caught up and trapped into having to try and control everything and keep everything a certain way.

So what game of life are you playing?

And how could it be different?