Pink’s song ‘Trustfall’, is playing in the background as I write this. My body reacts and I can barely sit still. My foot taps and my shoulders move in the stupid way only white people like myself naively think we can dance. Even my fingers type in tandem and rhythmically to the music as it hits my heart and pumps its way throughout my being and tingles the soul.
Music can, with the right words and beat, provide us with moments of inspiration. It makes us want to take a screenshot of the moment. Miraculous music put on repeat.
I invite you to join me the reflection of my favorite lines from ‘Trustfall’….
Picture a place where it all doesn’t hurt.
Where everything’s safe and it doesn’t get worse.
Oh my….
Are we runnin’ out of time?
Are we hidin’ from the light?
Are we just too scared to fight?
Close your eyes and leave it all behind.
Go where love is on our side.
It’s a trust fall, baby.
It’s a trust fall, baby.
You and I and everyone, alive.
We can run into the fire.
It’s a trust fall, baby.
Yeah, it’s a trust fall, baby.
-‘TrustFall’ by Pink
‘Picture a place where it doesn’t hurt, where everything’s safe….’
To picture a place such as this is to inspire a memory of truth that for some, has been too long forgotten. When your spirit was thrust into your physical body and your physical life began – you were never meant to forget the realm you came from or the greatness your soul possessed. Fear not. For all that is needed is a remembrance.
The secret of heaven is not in the future. Heaven exists now. To see heaven in death requires us to see heaven right before us. That is the real lesson. To see heaven right here and now, is to keep the faith, hold onto hope, and see truth for what it is. We are not alone. Everything is safe. Everything is just as it is meant to be.
‘Are we running out of time?’
Our relationship with time is broken. Our fear of the limited time afforded to us on earth means that we lose trust in the individual moments of our lives. But we must have faith in ourselves and faith in the moments granted to us. The future is yet to happen, and the past is left behind. Miracles occur when we engage fully with the present moments laid before us. Less is more. One moment of greatness, equal to Everest, is far more miraculous than 10,000 mole hills.
‘Are we hiding from the light?’
Why do we do this to ourselves? We hide from ourselves. Never stretching our wings and letting ourselves take flight. We have been conditioned to abusing ourselves with the damaging self-talk of our minds. But we are not of this physical plane. We are so much more that what our physical eyes can see.
It is the call for a remembrance. We must remember the greatness of who we are and the realm from which we came from. We are each called to achieve self-actualization so that we might bestow our gifts on the world we now inhabit.
‘Are we just too scared to fight?’
Are we afraid of failure? The truth is, we are afraid of our response to failure. Failure is just a word. Yes, many have attached a meaning to failure. But we do not have to conform to a definition that does not suit us and our greatness. Failure can be a great learning and so an essential step towards greatness. Will we continue to fear failure or will we use failure as a tool for our undeniable greatness.
‘Go where Love is on our side.’
Love is the only thing that is real. With this knowledge, fear disappears back into the nothingness it came from. There is infinite beauty and undeniable power in the acts of Love. If you extend love to one another, then in so doing, you are extending it to the self. To withhold love from one another is to withhold love from the self. Love is the only thing real, and Love is the only truth that exists. This knowledge is the true gift of the ‘TrustFall’.
‘You and I and everyone, alive….We can run into the fire.’
Let the fire represent our fears. Each time fear arises within us, we must face it down so as to prove that it doesn’t exist. We do this for ourselves and we do it for each other. Each time we overcome our fear and conquer the illusions of darkness in our minds, we lend strength to ourselves and our fellow man. Fear is not here to stop us or limit us. It is here as an invitation to overcome. Together we stand, together we rise, together we overcome.
What is the magic revealed to us in the ‘Trustfall’?
A ‘TrustFall’ asks of us to take the ultimate step in faith. Not a religious faith but a faith in ourselves, our fellow man, and faith in the resulting masterpiece that awaits us. It is a faith in oneself. For if you are to believe in yourself, then you must believe in your fellow mankind. And to believe in your fellow mankind, you must believe in yourself.
So now, to ‘TrustFall’ is to inherently know with full faith, that we must let go of our fear and hesitation. We must know that to let go is to let in. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal can exists.
Fear not. Fear is an illusion. It was never really there. You are not alone. You need not catch yourself. Humanity will catch you as you fall. For none of us are alone. We are in this together. Love is all there is.
Thanks for reading. Sincerely, Kurt Petersen
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