🌟 MINDFULNESS ISN’T SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO LEARN… IT’S SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE.

Patrice Julien
3 min readFeb 20, 2025

Because deep down, you were already mindful when you were a kid:

When you played without worrying about the rest.

When you enjoyed your snack without thinking about homework.

When you stared aimlessly at the rain for 10 minutes. 🌧️

And then the mind took up too much space.

The ‘I must’, the ‘I should’, the ‘what if…’.

Mindfulness?

👉 It’s just getting back to that raw state.

Experiencing what’s happening. Without over-analysing it.

“It’s the evidence of life.

Not a state to reach.

Just something not to be missed.”

So raise your glass of water, really drink it, and you’re already there. 💧🚀

💥 Life isn’t evolution. It’s a SHIFT. 🚀

Forget everything you’ve heard about ‘working on yourself’, ‘small steps to happiness’, and all those ‘Become the best version of yourself in 12 steps’ programmes . 😴

It’s not a staircase. It’s a lift.

And the good news? The key is already in your pocket.

🌟 1. Stop trying to improve yourself. You don’t need to.

The idea that you need to “fix “ or ”improve ’ yourself is one of the biggest myths in personal development. 🤯

Why?

👉 Because behind the desire to improve is the hidden idea that ‘I’m not good enough yet’. And that’s THE trap.

💡 The unvarnished truth?

You’re already perfect in your deepest nature.

What gets in the way is just the mental filter that makes you think you’re fragmented, incomplete, limited.

🧠 2. Improvement is tinkering. The shift is the quantum leap. ⚡

Imagine:

You’re struggling to paint your living room white…

But in fact, you had a switch at hand to turn on the light. 💡

Shift, that’s it.

👉 It’s not ‘making your life better’.

👉 It’s changing the room. Direct.

It’s an instant realisation:

‘Ah, but actually, I was getting my head around nothing.’

‘Everything was already there, I just hadn’t realised.’

🎯 3. How do you actually shift?

✅ 1. Stop looking for the way out in the maze.

The maze doesn’t exist.

You’re not chasing the light, you are the light. 💡

Ask yourself:

‘If I had nothing to fix or prove, what would I do NOW?’

✅ 2. Act like you’re already the ‘perfect’ version of you.

Not tomorrow. Not when you’re ‘ready’.

NOW.

💡 People think, ‘When I’m confident, I’ll do that.’

But the thing is:

👉 It’s in the doing that you realize you are already were you are.

✅ 3. Give up the fight.

Evolution is long, boring and sometimes painful.

Shift? It’s instantaneous.

You think you’re lost.

Then POOF, you realise you’re the one holding the card. 🗺️

It’s not an ascent. It’s an awakening.

🌌 4. Because you’re already perfect and all-powerful.

Not ‘perfect’ by social standards, not ‘I look like an Insta-filter’.

Perfect because you’re exactly who you need to be.

💡 Your power is already there.

You can manifest, create, transform.

The only thing blocking you? 👉 Your belief that you’re limited.

And when you let go of this belief?

💥 BAM. SHIFT.

🏆 5. Summary: Real change is when you realise that there’s nothing to change.

✔️ No need to improve.

✔️ No need to ‘deserve’ anything.

✔️ You can shift NOW by choosing a new perception.

It’s not a journey. It’s a switch. 💡

And the only real question is:

👉 ‘Am I ready to activate the switch?’

Because spoiler: you’ve always had the remote. 🎮✨

So, what are you waiting for to zap the drama channel and go straight to the ‘almighty creator’ version? 🚀

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Patrice Julien
Patrice Julien

Written by Patrice Julien

Patrice Julien & his Wife Yuri run a retreat center by the sea in Miyazu, Japan. Patrice writes Self-Help books and gives trainings in Zen and Ho'oponopono.

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