113 Turning Inward – A Journey to Self-Discovery

There are moments — sometimes too many — when we feel stretched beyond our center. The day moves quickly—the mind races. The world calls us outward again and again. And in that outward pull, we lose our sense of inner grounding. We lose our roots.

Yet within you, there is a quiet center. A still point. A place where your Spirit rests, unharmed and unchanged by the world around you. And we gain access to that place by learning to turn our inner eyes inward.

When I speak of turning the eyes inward, I don’t mean closing your physical eyes and retreating. Although closing your eyes can help at first, the deeper practice is one of becoming still while staying awake to the world. It is the experience of being fully here, fully aware, and anchored in yourself.

When you begin this practice, something extraordinary happens. The mind slows. The nervous system settles. There is more space between thoughts — and that space is where your intuition lives. That is where the soul integrates, guides, and teaches.

You are not your thoughts. You are the one who can watch the thoughts. You are not your emotions. You are the one who experiences them. You are not the tension in your body. You are the one who feels and recognizes that tension.

The real You is deeper, older, wiser.

Your soul has existed long before this lifetime and will continue long after it. And it speaks in quiet ways — nudges, impressions, a feeling that moves through the chest or the belly, a knowing that seems to arise from nowhere and everywhere at once.

This is why stillness is essential.

Stillness is not the absence of sound. It is the presence of awareness.

The world will never be completely silent. The leaves will always rustle. The waves will always return. Life will always move. So the invitation is not to eliminate movement — but to remain centered within it.

This is how we learn to be “in the world but not of it.”

When I work intuitively — whether I am looking into the body, into energy, into land, or into the architecture of someone’s destiny — I do not strain. I do not push. I become still. I listen from inside the spaciousness. And what is true rises to meet me.

This same stillness can guide you in your daily life — in relationships, in decisions, in healing, in your creative unfolding. The answers you seek are often already within you; they need room to speak.

✨ The Practice: Turning Your Inner Eyes Inward

You can do this with eyes open or closed.

• Take one gentle breath.
  Inhale softly. Exhale softly. Do not force—just notice.
  

• Notice where your awareness is.
  Are you pulled outward? Into worry? Into planning?
  

• Now, turn your awareness inward.
  Imagine your attention shifting from the outside world into the center of your chest or the soft center of your belly.
  

• Feel the space between your thoughts.
  There is always a gap. Even if only for a heartbeat.
  
• Rest there.
  Not controlling. Not pushing. Just watching the inner sky of your awareness.
  

You may only access this space for a moment at first — and that is enough. With practice, that moment expands.

And from that spaciousness, wisdom will arise.

You are doing beautifully.
Your soul knows the way.
Trust the eyes within.

With grace,
Laura  🪷