The Tree is Expression

Sometimes I wonder how much of this we're all just, as it's put, "faking till we make it".
There's a lot of great terminology going around in the "New Age" movement that give us virtually infinite ways of expressing our experiences as our individual and collective process of waking up unfolds. I think sometimes, though, we can get distracted. It doesn't seem like a big thing on the surface but it actually kind of poses as an obstacle in our actual awakening - but only if we let it. The truth is, we need to let go of everything.
Yes, everything. Yes, that is what I said. But what does this mean?
Well, sure, it's up to our own perception to determine what anything means. To me, letting go means, even if there is fear, choosing to acknowledge what is presenting itself to me, what my body is asking me to go for. I think it can be hard to understand what our bodies are telling us when we treat our bodies in ways that go against our inherent nature and design. So we have to be practical in our endeavors - some people just aren't going to understand what you are saying when you use the term "ascension." I don't, often.
But you know what? That's because it's a largely religious/mystical idea borrowed from the minds of other people who have lived before us. Why not create our own ideas, and our own culture?
That's just what we're doing. And it's very, very important that these ideas have a fertile and healthy foundation in which to take root, other wise they will continue to sprout and simply whither away. I think the foundation is on a very primal, basic level:
*proper nourishment *sexual expression *appreciation *self love
All of these are basically different branches of the same tree, and that tree is the allowance of the expression of all natural instinct. We have to be vigilant. That is why we are called warriors- because it's a challenge, it's always a risk. But it's one we cannot afford to not take.