4 Ways to Remember What Your Soul Has Always Been Practising

Have you ever picked up something new – a language, a piano, a kind of art – and it felt oddly 熟悉的? As if your hands already remembered?

We often call these moments “talent” or “intuition.” But sometimes, what’s happening is simpler: you’re meeting an old pattern again, one you’ve practised in other times, other forms.

Our creative essence doesn’t start from zero each time – it continues. We inherit emotional rhythms, sensibilities, even aesthetic preferences, not just from our ancestors, but from the long memory of our own experience.

When you start to read beneath the surface – pattern beneath pattern – you begin to see how what you love, notice, and repeat today carries the thread of everything you’ve ever been.

There’s a story of a four-year-old boy in Hong Kong who learned to play the piano in just three months – and played like a master.

肯定, 他有一个伟大的老师.

是的 – 亚洲虎妈妈! 可能是老虎的爸爸太在这种情况下，…

But still, there was something in him that couldn’t be taught – the phrasing, the sensitivity, the flow.

You could feel that this wasn’t his 第一 encounter with the piano.

He was picking up where he left off before.

You too can pick up where you left off before.

And if that’s true, then what you’re naturally drawn to today – your creative leanings, fascinations, even your obsessions – might be breadcrumbs leading you back to your own essence.

Let’s trace them together.

1. Read your own face

 

Browse through your old photos – the ones you rarely look at anymore.
Different ages, different moods, 不同的地方.

Look closely, not at how you looked, but at what’s 回头看 through your eyes.

• Which version of you feels the most 活? Which one carries a wisdom, a mischief, or a knowing you’ve forgotten?

• Which memory, 图像, or rhythm feels older than your physical age?

• What longing keeps returning, even when you can’t explain why?

• What movement, 艺术, or element feels like home to your body?

A friend of mine teaches dance. He always felt deeply connected to the rituals and rhythms of the earth – 元素, bare feet, wind.

He feels particularly drawn to Native American drum circles – the grounded power of tribal dance.

他直观地了解能量在人体内如何流动, 和他的编排不知何故有很大的治疗效果.

一天, looking into the mirror, he suddenly realised: this feeling of belonging wasn’t some random entertainment but from essence.

Such connection, some may describe as “过去的生活”. When I first wrote this post on 26 三月 2013, I too used the phrase “过去的生活” to describe an energetic familiarity – something that felt ancient yet alive in me – simply because I didn’t yet have the language to capture how memory moves through essence.

But the fuller truth is that you don’t need to hold a “past life” belief in order to feel the continuity of soul through what you love, create, or remember.

2. Follow your obsessions.

We all have certain things that stay with us – a piece of music, a place, a philosophy we can’t explain our love for.

When I first heard the opening lines of the 道德经 小时候 – “道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名…” – I started to cry with joy.

I was too young to dissect all the meaning then. But I felt that I didn’t have to grasp its great meaning. Because deep down I felt…了解.

I grew up near Wu Dang Mountain, a Taoist (Daoist) heritage site at the heart of mainland China. Each time I climbed the mountain, I felt soothed, as if I’d returned home.

Over time I realised: the mountain, the text, the desire to understand the “why” behind all things – they were all the same pulse repeating in different forms.

Any places you are obsessed with? Anything you are never tired of doing, 如果钱, 时间和年龄不是问题?

Notice what you always return to, even when life moves on.
Those are the threads that never stop weaving through you.

3. Repetition Mapping

We tend to pay attention on the big shifts, but the smaller patterns often reveal more – the themes that keep showing up, the timing that returns like a tide.

When we stop treating them as coincidences, we begin to see an invisible order beneath the surface.

Mapping these repetitions is not about fixing patterns, but about recognising the rhythm of your soul at work.

• Notice what repeats – a phrase, a colour, a kind of encounter, a question that never seems to fade.
• Don’t analyse it (但).
• Simply place each echo on a map of your awareness.
• When seen together, these repetitions begin to draw the outline of your becoming.

Sometimes your essence or deepest self speaks through dreams, carrying messages that linear logic can’t decode. Sometimes your essence or deepest self speaks through repetition.

What you keep circling back to – in thought, in art, in relationship – is not random. It’s communication.

在 the Intuition Course, we cultivate your perception. To sense the subtle energy movement beneath events. To read pattern beneath the patterns. To hear the rhythm within timing, with confidence and clarity.

When you start mapping with awareness, you can connect the dots. Your intuition then goes being a mysterious talent and becomes deep insights you can trust.

 

4. Let recognition find you

There are moments when you remember what remembers you.

Don’t chase it. Don’t rush to explain it. Don’t scare it away.
Recognition is shy – it appears only when you’re still enough to receive it.

有时, this recognition carries information: a creative impulse, a sense of belonging, or an inner knowing that feels older than you.

Let it unfold in its own timing.

Practise this kind of listening – allow what wants to be known to surface naturally.

Perhaps this is how your soul begins to draw nearer – not through visions or answers,
but through a quiet intimacy that feels both ancient and tender.
It doesn’t demand belief; it invites relationship.
The more you lean into it, the more life itself starts to speak to you.

Look at what feels familiar.
What draws you closer without reason?
What do you do so naturally that it feels like breathing?

Those are your returning rhythms – your essence practising itself again.

Let your curiosity follow them.
They’ll show you not who you were, but who you’ve always been.

Further exploration:

Become Your Own Creative Alchemist course:
a deeper unfolding of your soul’s creative calling.
An embodied journey into how your essence creates form.
A return to the place where clarity, 势头, and timing arise naturally – 并和谐.

A reawakening of the creativity that has always been within you –
睡着但在你的骨头上搅拌,
通过呼吸和梦想编织,
在你的灵魂和身体之间流动.