When I took magic mushrooms for the first time over a year ago, I knew it would be deeply spiritual, but I never could’ve guessed just how important the messages would be to me.
I learned several key lessons in that first trip, which I wrote down, saved, and some of which I remind myself of to this today.
One of those lessons is this: all in, or all out.
All In or All Out
Life is full of decisions. You could eat at a million different restaurants, live in countless countries and countless cities, date countless people, and work too many jobs to fulfill a dozen lifetimes.
We each feel particularly called to something, which is our “heart” or “intuition.” It’s very important that we listen to it.
The whole Universe works to help you follow your own path, even if it doesn’t seem like it.
Events which we consider “bad luck” could actually be events which are designed to change our course and bring us unknowingly to riches we deserve.
How many stories are there of someone getting fired, then finding what they are truly passionate in? Suddenly they feel so grateful for getting fired, otherwise they may be dying slowly on the 9-5 grind they never really wanted.
Sometimes though you face a crossroad where there isn’t a clear path. The choice is up to you.
You should always consult your heart, and if your intuition doesn’t say “no” to any of them, then try listen closely to see what feels better. Sometimes it doesn’t matter- but you still have to make a choice.
You can’t live with regrets though. Sometimes you follow your heart and not everything goes to plan, or something unexpected which we call “bad” happens.
Should you have not followed your heart? No because in following your heart, you often learn to listen deeper, and your heart becomes wiser in its decisions.
Sometimes your heart knows that it must go through some pain and growth or loss in order to get something which it wants. The heart wants what it wants, but it also wants you to feel good, creating conflict.
This is where success barriers come in- we avoid doing what we know we really must do.
With anything, you need to be “all in” or “all out.” If you make a decision, go all in with it in that moment- if you can’t, then maybe you should be all in for the other decision.
The problem with many, including sometimes myself, is that they make a decision but think of the other, or hold regrets, or always wonder “what if…”
One great way to make decisions is ask whether you’d regret something because you know that if you would not be all in for the other decision and regret not taking the other path then it is a path you truly must take.
I’m speaking even of the small things here- if you can’t be all in for eating Mexican food tonight, then why should you go eat Mexican sitting there wondering what Italian food might taste like on your tongue?
Sometimes we make a decision and there’s no clear path. There is no good answer. In these cases it still makes the best sense to go all in for one decision.
If you make a decision but don’t take responsibility for it, then you can only be bitter at the world for that it didn’t work out exactly as you desired.
If you make an uncertain decision certain, then you can be “all in” and fully responsible for the outcomes, even if you can’t control it completely.
In this way you become the captain of your life, guiding yourself through life. You listen to your heart, and you follow it, knowing that things may not always go as planned but that it’s your true path.
There may be nothing worse on this Earth than not following your true path.
To fail in the face of authenticity is to have earned yourself a wonderful experience of following your heart, an experience which may just lead to your treasure.
To fail in the face of inauthenticity is to have cut yourself twice- once for denying your heart, and once for failing also.
The pain of not following your heart is greater than any pain you could experience by following your heart.
The nagging feeling of your heart whispering “I want to do this” is enough to drive man mad.
For long I’ve ignored the next big step in my path, and now that I’m taking it, it feels scary, but I know that I am living true and that whatever fault may come it is for better.
There is risk, of course. I don’t say anything of the future, either- I will not say where my path will go, just that I think I know where it goes, and I believe that I’ll arrive where I desire to arrive.
Of course, the path may change to get there, but I have faith as long as I follow my heart everything will turn out- it always does.
Try to follow your heart, be all in for it. We both know you can’t be “all out,” for that is to not be alive, and you are here now for a reason. You know it intuitively.
Promise your heart you will listen to it, that you will do what it asks of you.
And when you need to make any decision, be all in or all out. Not fully down for it? Don’t do it.
If you are uncertain, choose to be all in because there is no other choice. It is pointless to take one weak step in either direction, when you could choose to take a step with power, even if you don’t know what the right decision is.
Fortune favors the bold, which requires you to be all in.
All in, or all out. Choose. Now.
Done.
-Michael
