If you have been meaning to message me about something, feel free to do it. It would be great to hear from you.
The Impulses I Ignored
A while back, I used to always get these feelings that I should reach out to someone and tell them something that had come to me or a dream I had had about them.
I never did. I was embarrassed or didn’t really know what to say or how to phrase it or if it was appropriate.
Looking back, I realize those impulses weren’t random. They were invitations from something deeper. The part of me that knows things before my conscious mind catches up.
Why We Hold Back
There’s this fear that we’ll come across as strange. That the person will think we’re being too forward or reading too much into nothing.
But here’s what I’ve noticed. That fear is almost always wrong. The people we think about randomly are usually thinking about us too. There’s a reason they surfaced in our consciousness.
We’re more connected than we realize. When someone pops into your mind out of nowhere, it’s rarely nowhere.
The Game I Started Playing
Then one day I started reaching out to people when I thought about them. No agenda. Just a simple message saying they crossed my mind.
Every single time, they were grateful. Some said they’d been going through something hard and my message arrived at exactly the right moment. Others said they’d just been thinking about me too.
So it became a game. I would just reach out and say hi to people when I thought about them and see where that led.
And it was fun and rewarding and satisfying. It continues to open up opportunities I never could have planned.
What’s Actually Happening
I think there’s an intelligence operating beneath our conscious awareness. It knows who needs to hear from us. It knows when someone needs a lifeline.
Those random thoughts about people aren’t random. They’re signals. And when we act on them, we become instruments of something larger than ourselves.
We don’t have to understand it. We just have to trust it enough to send the message.
Just Do It
If you’ve been thinking about reaching out to me or anyone else, you should do it and see where it leads.
It will probably be fun or healing or important or playful or growth-inspiring or beautifully sad, or all of the above.
Act on those impulses to reach out. Open communication and authentic expression inspired by anything is appropriate.
The worst that happens is a brief moment of vulnerability. The best that happens is you become part of someone’s answered prayer.
That seems like a trade worth making.
This is shadow work in action.
If you’re ready to process what’s been running your life, explore the Shadow Work practices.