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Awaken Your Self

Awaken Your Self

I help people with busy minds return to clarity, peace and wholeness.

The cause of separation is simple: unquestioned stories, belief systems and incentives shape our attention, which gets fragmented by distraction and fear, until we’re exhausted chasing shadows that never go away.

Through private guidance and my audio, video and writing, I help you see through the tinted lens of perception. To reveal the hidden operating system that’s running your life. And to uncover the deepest source of meaning and purpose in our lives.

This is your invitation to a guided return to right relationship in your life, your community and your ecosystem.

TLDR;

Drop the hustle. Clear the noise. Realign your attention. Live a life your mind and body can finally thrive in. You are not just a person with a phenomenal existence. You are the source of consciousness being the universe.

If you’re ready to stop chasing what’s already here, let’s talk:

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Why does this site exist?

I created this site for people who are looking for resources and support for their self awakening.

A place to help rediscover lasting peace and contentment through Self-Discovery and Self-Knowledge.

We all lose ourselves in the pursuit and achievement of success, whatever the definition.

Eventually, there’s a reckoning.

For some, it happens after achieving so much and realizing there’s nothing at the end of the rainbow.

For others, it’s burning out under the pressure and weight of expectations.

When it happens, it can often feel like the loneliest time of your life.

You may feel lost, tired or uncertain. Perhaps frustrated, angry and hurt. Or simply empty and broken.

I’ve been there too.

And I’ve spent a decade learning how to transcend this repetitive cycle. To cut at the root of what causes this suffering.

I’m sharing this so that you know relief exists.

You don’t have to keep bashing your head against a wall. → If you’re curious, there’s more about my journey, from burnout to thriving, below.

I’m here to provide a friendly hand if you want help to guide you back home to your true self.

To help you complete the chase by understanding the source of the pursuit.

The key points I want to share with you are these:

→ We are taught to pursue happiness and success. But it’s this very pursuit that gets in the way. Your natural peace of mind has been hijacked by a conceptual model. Drop the pursuit and give yourself fully to what is present.

→ Awareness (or consciousness) is fundamental. Before mind and body. Your identity is not what you think it is.

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So, what does this mean, practically?

It means we have become habituated to feeling like we’re separate individual conscious entities, but that is a mistaken concept masking our true universal nature.

You are what I am. I am what you are. Only, we can’t actually capture its essence in words.

Our details may differ: countries, schools, work, religion, culture, etc. The primacy of consciousness is the same for all: A unified field of universal awareness that appears to become multiple, separate entities formed in matter.

Formless, nameless, genderless, universal, undivided, eternal. Peaceful. Content. Whole.

The spontaneous discovery of this changed the meaning of life entirely.

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My Journey

I spent most of my life doing what you and everyone else is doing.

Ticking off all the checkboxes as quickly as I could. Building assets and wealth. All the goodies. I was good at it and I was convinced I had it all figured out.

Until my choices and decisions brought that all to a halt.

Ten years ago my life turned upside down in one gut-wrenching year. It was absolute hell. I lost almost everything I held dear.

But, it taught me incredibly valuable life lessons and I started the long process to rebuild. I’m grateful for the help of therapy, meditation, breath-work and self-inquiry. I highly recommend all of these modalities for finding peace whenever you need it.

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A Turning Point

In recent years, I read some research on consciousness that caught my interest. And I had an eye-opening conversation one night with a musician at a friend’s party.

That innocuous night proved to be a key turning point. As I followed my curiosity over the next couple of years, I discovered I'd been looking at life from a limited, inherited perspective all along.

It wasn’t long before I had a series of what are commonly described as ‘moments of spiritual awakening’ - I just call them realizations.

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A Fresh Perspective

Here’s what I learned through these realizations:

Our natural state is lasting peace and contentment. Unconditional happiness.

We become blind to it through the process of socialization in this world, one concept at a time stacking on top of each other, until we’re numb to reality.

We end up in a vicious loop constantly chasing fulfillment, happiness, and success that always seems just out of reach.

And the pursuit is what masks the source of happiness, your peace of mind within.

There’s a way out of this limited mindset. To end the chase and return to wholeness.

An embodied insight that worked for me and others who’ve tried it.

I shared this insight in an essay I wrote and narrated after my quest for answers.

Something I could share with my children. A legacy that needs no protection and can be shared freely with all.

Read or listen to it here:

About The Pursuit of Happiness

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A Path Forward

I am grateful for all the experiences that informed and shaped this perspective, however hard and painful they were at the time.

Growing up in Kenya. Studying engineering in Canada. A 25+ year career across industries and roles, helping people launch and grow their businesses.

A supportive family, friends, children and a life partner who have all helped me see life through a different lens.

I've made mistakes... small ones that never mattered; a few big ones that hurt and humbled. And I’ve been on a long quest to discover the source of it all.

Together, they taught me how to be kind, gentle, open-hearted and open-minded. To myself and to others.

Once I perceived the truth about happiness, I started applying the knowledge in every moment. And it has led me here:

To write about what I discovered. To share it freely without expectation. To be happy no matter what is happening.

All I had to do was let go of what I had been taught to believe. And replace it with the truth I discovered.

Life is a Curriculum… Take it

You are a being in search of lasting peace and contentment. Relaxed happiness that has no external condition.

You had it at birth, but you were unaware of it. Same as when you sleep. You feel it in moments throughout your life, but it doesn't seem to last. Especially if you try to catch it.

You notice to when it comes and goes, discerning its pattern.

And so you start to chase it… through things, experiences, relationships, work, spiritual pursuits… drugs, fame, money, sex… the options are endless.

Like everyone else, you get so habituated to pursuing happiness through external conditions that you forget the source is within.

This is a place where you can find support for the final leg in your search for lasting peace and happiness.

A space for those who yearn to be free.

Why does this matter?

Because applying this will ease your suffering and give you peace of mind. Because you deserve to know there’s a different way.

Applying this insight radically transformed my experience of life and for those who’ve applied it in their lives, before and after me. It’s not the addition of new knowledge… rather it’s the unlearning of certain concepts and the rediscovery of what is, timeless and ever-present. What I do is direct your attention to the source of your conscious experience:

To use your mind to turn within and discover its source within your consciousness.

To observe consciousness and its constantly changing identification with what is perceived.

To permanently dissolve the root cause of your suffering, your seeking, your feeling of emptiness.

What to do next?

I invite you to explore what helped me. These are the insights and resources I use and reference regularly in my work. They are free for your personal use.

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