At the root of it all—regardless of how you experience it—is a deep-seated sense of being separate. 

An indelible mark. An irreconcilability (of you with Life). 

And a judgment (about how that—and you—should be). 

At the root is a split within you—and a split of you from everything else—(pervasive and imperceptible). 

That keeps you (or part of you) feeling separate (and set apart).

From the Sacred. 

From the flow and pulse of Life. 

From others. And from yourself. 

Deservedly and justifiably left out—of corners of goodness, abundance, and acceptance. 

Inherently unsafe—and like you have to work to justify your own existence. 

(By keeping all those balls in the air, that mask on, those hospital corners crisp—or beating yourself up for not doing that.)

You are not alone, and there is nothing wrong with you.

That you feel separate (set apart or split) is endemic, universal—and by design. 

It is a feature of being human. 

You do not immediately recognize the nature and play of the Sacred in everything, including you—because it is masked from you. 

The adventure of your life is to come to know yourself (and everyone and everything else) as an expression of the Sacred—and to live that way.

But this separation is also a symptom of an intentional split between mind and body, material and sacred, in our culture’s socio-economic system—that has been present from its beginning.

And so you have forgotten. (We have all forgotten.) 

That there is another way. 

A way that was lost. 

But of which you have an ancient and instinctual memory.

That beckons. 

In whispers and tugs. In hopes and dreams. 

In aspirations—and in pain and longing, failure and jealousy. 

In the pattern of frustration and lament that made you pick up this book:

That one thing—coiled and curled, tangled and snarled into a tight little knot. 

A snare from which it feels impossible to escape—and within which it feels impossible to breathe. 

(That is its memory—and your guide.) 

When you untangle that snarled root (which you are so close to doing), you will reclaim as much as you will discover. 

You will reclaim your own wholeness, your own knowledge, your own wisdom—and your own security.  

You will reclaim trust and certainty (harmony).

You will weave back together the perceived disparate and dispersed parts of yourself and your work that were shattered—not just individually, but collectively, in favor of power, productivity and profit.

And you will reclaim our collective loss of an entire body of human knowledge and experience. 

This is not surface level stuff. 

(You’ve already done all that work, layer after layer.) 

This is deep, karmic, soul-level wounding and longing—rooted in the ground of your being.

That has put you on your inevitable path to untangle how that knot of false separation distracts and derails you.

And to weave who and how you know yourself to be back into the fabric of the Universe.

Because it is foundational to your well-being, to your body of work, and to your leadership. 

That you value the instinctive, the intuitive, the creative and the sacred—as much as the logical, the strategic, the quantifiable and the material. 

And that you live and model it—in every aspect of what you do, how you do it, and who you are in it.

What I’ve found in working with clients is that each of us has a particular way that we experience this split, a particular way that we relate to its root, and therefore, a particular way that we need to untangle it.

The first step is to get clear on what is at the root of it for you.

I invite you to join me for The One Thing Workshop or a Private One Thing Intensive to do exactly that. 

(I can pinpoint the one thing at the root very quickly when we work together energetically.)

I’m Rebecca Rama Devi Prien, a business advisor, spiritual teacher and attorney with more than 20 years of experience at the leading edge of holistic change in unlikely professions. I mentor visionary women to integrate the sacred & the strategic parts of your work—through spiritual practice, intellectual property strategy and business model design—without sacrificing financial stability or professional respect.