Remembering is a lifestyle. Staying awake is the practice.

Remembering is a lifestyle — and if remembering is a lifestyle, then the practice of staying awake is the practice of lucid living: the art of being conscious in as many moments of your life as possible, allowing life to play with you versus forcing your way through life.

It's not a retreat, or a 12-step routine, or anyone's Signature Proven System™ — and it's not a new outfit capsule, either. It's noticing this moment. And the next one you can. That's the whole practice — as many moments as you have capacity for, no score kept, just momentum built.

The pressure lies in the system, not in your body. We're all making it up as we go — every one of us. The only system that will ever work for you is the one you create — or the one you remember already exists in your life's patterns. Remembering that takes the weight off your shoulders and puts it back where it belongs: outside of you. Because you already hold the light.

"We're here to remember we're already in heaven."

Heaven, as in: this morning's light on the floor. The birds outside running their free soundtrack. An ordinary Tuesday, noticed. It was never somewhere else.