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Healing Thoughts

The Answer Was Always Inside 🌌

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." β€” Caroline Myss

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Ryan Puusaari
May 30, 2025
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There’s a kind of desperation that creeps in when you convince yourself you’re lost.

You look outward.
You gather books. Experts. Podcasts. More opinions than your mind knows how to sort.

You turn your soul into a scavenger hunt.
You start believing the answers are hidden somewhere outside you. If only you read the right thing, hear the right words, get the right breakthrough.

"The clarity I seek is already within me; I choose to remember."

I lived like that for years.

The frantic seeking.
The endless courses.
The advice hoarding.

But no matter how much knowledge I collected, the feeling gnawed at me: You already know.

Not in a checklist way. Not in a "manifest your dreams in five easy steps" way.

I knew because my body knew.
Because my gut clenched at wrong paths.
Because my chest felt lighter when I thought about choices that scared me but also woke something ancient in my bones.

The truth was never missing.

It was buried.
Beneath fear.
Beneath conditioning.
Beneath the voices of everyone I ever gave …

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