Let me quickly tell you about the time I ran into my mate Uge, a surfer I’ve known from around the neighborhood for a number of years. He was sitting in the sun having a coffee at a café. I asked what he was doing because he wasn’t reading the paper or talking into a phone. He was just sitting there. “Sez, I’m checking in with my Inside People,” he said everyday-ishly. I pressed him on this. He explained this entailed just sitting and asking of one’s people, “Are we happy? Comfortable? Heading in a good direction?” ….. It’s pretty much meditation spelled out fresh. In fact, it reminds me of Sky’s advise to just meditate. It’s a powerful point. Just create the space with your Inside People and the rest will unfurl as it needs to. Uge tells me that we then feel where our inside peeps are at. Try saying to yourself, as he does, “Are we good? Are we comfortable? Is this where we should be? Is it making sense?” “Don’t think or plan in this space, just check in,” he says. Chatting to Uge I realized it’s also important to listen to what your peeps tell you when you ask them how they are. It will probably be heard with a feeling, perhaps an expansiveness, a release. It’s funny, for me, the answer that I hear is invariably, “Better than we thought, actually.” Inside peeps are like that. When you check in on them