The world inside of you
 is “real” and it plays a massive impact on the world outside. Such little attention is generally paid to the inner world, even though it shapes every decision and action we take. 

The “inner world” is the universe of stuff happening inside of us. It is a world we are always living in, even as we think we’re living exclusively in a rationally explainable external world. It is the realm of thoughts, dreams, fears, energy, conditioning, stories, myths, visions, psychedelic trips, internal monologues, biases, ideas, etc.

The overwhelming bulk of attention is on topics in the so-called “real world.” But “inner performance” is at least equally important as “external performance,” if not more so. We ignore our emotions and inner experience at our own peril. So… let’s say we want to better understand and live aligned with our inner worlds. How might we learn to work more integrally with our emotions, conditioning, fears, thoughts, etc?

Charting your own inner world is a journey, not a destination. There are untold layers to this realm. The best analogy I’ve heard for the lifelong process of understanding yourself is that you are moving through layers of an infinite onion. As soon as you move inward one layer, a new one emerges. Much like the actual universe, the “inner universe” is infinite and mysterious.