Thrive and Awaken® Tip

In Survival Mode, we strive to know. We want to understand the present and plan for the future in order to feel safe. This is natural.

In Thriving Mode we want to know, and we learn to accept not knowing. Most of life is unknown. We don’t know how our universe was created or how our brains work. We don’t even know what the next thought is that will emerge in our mind. We don’t know when we’ll get sick or when we’ll die, despite striving to avoid those life events.

In Awakening Mode we use what we know and fully reside in not knowing. We completely embrace the unfolding mystery of life. We appreciate that true reality is outside our capacity to understand. Daily living is being in the flow of not knowing.