Losing Motivation

After an upward shift in consciousness, what is called 'motivation' can often fall away. What disappears is often a sense of pushing towards a future state. The push, or the internal pressure to arrive somewhere else, is no longer present.

From the perspective of the ego, this can be labelled as a 'lack of motivation,' as if something vital or positive has been lost. Yet in lived experience the dissolving of motivation can be liberating, revealing in its wake the simple peace and joy of being, free from the restrictiveness of goals, purpose or meaning imposed by thought.

Without motivation, there is still action, but it is not originating from an idea of a separate self trying to complete, find or fulfil itself. Action arises from life expressing itself in immediacy of the here and now. It is vital, alive, fresh and uncontrived.

From this perspective, it is clear that there's nothing real lost from motivation falling away. What is revealed is space, and the movement of life within it.