Unfolding isn’t a philosophy to memorize. It isn’t a mindset trick. It isn’t “try to think differently.” It’s something you are, your body, your experience in this moment. Knowledge about presence doesn’t create presence. Knowledge about trust doesn’t give you trust. Knowledge about reactivity doesn’t dissolve reactivity. What creates transformation is participation, showing up with what’s actually here, letting it be felt, letting it reveal itself, and letting the deeper intelligence within you reorganize. This is why Unfolding is so powerful: - It engages the whole person, not just the thinking mind. - It works with reality as it is, not how we wish it were. - It dissolves patterns at the level where we actually live, in the nervous system, emotions, and felt sense. - It gives you direct experience of the qualities you’ve been chasing or trying to emulate (unsuccesfully): peace, clarity, courage, connection, value. When people participate in this way, even for a few minutes a day, something starts moving. Something opens, softens, or reorganizes. Something unfolds. And that, more than any idea, philosophy, or strategy is what creates real, lasting change.

Life unfolds, more of what is already here unfolds, the world unfolds around us. The world engages with us and we engage with the world and this dance brings about something new, something wonderful.

Most of us move through life like a single chip on the plate — trying to keep our edges clean, trying not to break, trying to look put-together next to all the other chips. But reality… doesn’t actually work that way. If you’ve ever eaten nachos, you know the truth. At some point, all the chips at the bottom become one giant, glorious, cheesy mass. You can pretend you’re picking up an individual chip, but you’re really lifting the entire ecosystem with it. This is what oneness is like. We think we’re separate, but underneath the neat little piles we try to present, we’re all resting in the same melted ground of being, the same warmth, the same essence, the same gooey mix of joy, sorrow, fear, hope, tenderness, humanity. There’s no single nacho that exists apart from the others.There is only the nacho-ness, expressing itself as many shapes. And the wild thing? The “messy” parts, the cheese that sticks, the beans that smear across everything, the jalapeños that show up where you didn’t expect, those are what hold everything together.T hose are the parts we usually try to hide in ourselves… and yet they might be the very proof that we’re not separate at all. So today’s reflection: What keeps you still experiencing yourself to be a perfectly separate chip…when you might already be part of the great, delicious, all-one nacho? What softens when you let yourself feel that you’re not alone, not separate, not isolated, but fundamentally connected, supported, and held in the same melted field as everyone else? Share below if anything unfolds. And yes… extra guac is always welcome. 🥑✨

Tell us where you are from. Tell us who you are (not what you do). Why are you here?

A short unfolding of a Resentful Part of me