The Leap.
When the inner voice calls for something bigger than your courage, only a leap remains – and the ground appears the moment you jump.
This letter caught me in a strange split. I was giving this project everything – my time, my heart, more trust than I had ever put into anything. And exactly there, in the middle of the giving, the what-ifs started their nightly round: What if it doesn't work? What if I can't do it? What if none of this is real?
The letter takes those questions seriously – and then names them for what they are: fear, in different forms and colors, the opposite of trust. Listening to the inner voice, it says, is only the first step. The second is bigger: giving up every limit that fear has built, and jumping. "Fear and Control" walks the same ground from the human side – control was never real; all we ever had was anxiety. This letter shows what stands on the far side of giving that anxiety up.
If something in your life is waiting for that jump – you know which – this letter was written for the second before it.
Dear traveler,
You allow yourself to take up space. A space in which you allow yourself to express yourself. In which you work through your visions and longings, process them and see the world. With this you allow yourself to come into the world and to land here. To be a part of it. By listening to your inner voice, allowing it to speak, receiving its words and letting them flow through you, you accept yourself. Without judging. Without demanding. Without controlling. That is complete acceptance, and from it springs authentic creation. But that is only the first step. An important step, because it opens a space of infinite size. This space has no limitations – except the ones you impose on yourself. So the second step is to give up these limitations and replace them with deep trust. Trust that what your inner voice calls for is possible. Completely. Without restrictions. Wow – the panic this sets off in you is enormous. That is why it is so important to bring this aspect forward now. A deep fear resonates in it: What if? What if it doesn't work? If I can't do it? If none of this is real? If my trust is not answered? – Yes, that is fear. And those are exactly the limitations we are speaking of. At bottom they all come from fear. Fear in different forms and colors. But always fear. It is the opposite of trust. And here it is, the LEAP OF FAITH. The jump into the uncertain. Into nothing. Into absolute darkness. Without ground. Without a safety net. This advance of trust is needed to overcome the fear. It is so simple. And yet this jump can be so gigantic. So unbelievably terrifying. Existential.
But we promise you: in the same second in which you overcome the fear, let go and let yourself fall into this unknown, in exactly that moment the light comes on and you feel the ground beneath you, a hand that carries you. The hand that was always there – behind the fear that made you blind. And in that moment you remember. And with this remembering you are free. Wrapped in deep, true trust. In love. And this infinite space suddenly feels completely light. Clear. Empty and at the same time in full abundance. Jump!
Thank you for being here.
If something in these letters stayed with you, take it along – think about it, write your own answer, or just let it sit.
And if not today, that's okay too. There's no rush.
Until next time,
– Jan