Our biggest strength is to embrace our biggest weaknesses.
Soulchess, a 3 minute 22 seconds listen to.
Well here it is.I have to admit it. I’m addicted to the chess app on my phone.
Whenever I feel overwhelmed — when the world gets too loud, too close, too much, when there’s too much yet to perfectionate — I reach for the little green icon and disappear.
My chessapp is my hideout.
My digital monastery.
A safe haven from the dreads and threads of daily life.
While I’m playing though, I know deep down inside I’m avoiding..
Something I don’t want to face.
Something I should be doing.
Something inside me still unfinished, unsaid, undone.
I used to scold myself for that:
But then someone — or perhaps I should say something — made me realise:
It’s my Soul who is doing the playing
All my Ego does is move the pieces.
My Ego plays fast.
It defends the familiar, even when it hurts.
It jumps to conclusions. Reacts rather than creates.
It often assumes the worst.
and most of all fears to lose, even when winning means staying stuck.
And my Soul?
My Soul waits.
It plays the long game, without a care about the score or winning
Soul makes its silent moves without Ego being aware….yet..
Soul watches for openings — not to attack, but to invite.
Soul is not interested in checkmate.
It’s Ego’s Soulmate.
Only there to make Ego aware what on earth it is doing….literally. It whispers into my subconscious; nudges me into the moves I COULD be making, by making me aware I’m addicted to my chess app.
Sometimes, she lets a piece fall on purpose.
So I’ll notice what I’m clinging to.
What I’m scared to lose.
What I keep guarding, instead of releasing.
And when the board is chaos,
When I don’t know what’s mine or where to go
My soul stays calm.
She stays.
She observes.
and sets the board again.
Soulchess I found is an initiation,
a beginning to insight of who I am.
It isn’t about winning.
It’s about remembering who’s playing.
When you recognize this…
Maybe you’re at a board too.
Or at some other distraction.
Maybe you’re a serial binger.
or workaholic or a diary-filler from dawn to midnight.
If so, know this:
Your Soul is patient.
She bides her time waiting to implement her own purpose.
waiting for you to stop blitzing through your life…
So you start to create and feel her next move. Until you get bored and delete your chess app to focus on what matters and play your two cents to make this world a better place.
So what’s your vice? What’s your Ego getting at? And what is your Soul secretly making you aware of? What really moves you? What moves did you recently make? In our Pilgrim gatherings we talk about things like this. In the end we all walk our our path on the same earth. Find out more on the pilgrimpage. energycounseling.nl and the blog Soulchess, the difference between checkmate and soulmate. Bring your own set of Ego and Soul and let’s play…
