RE: If there was a message you had to get out to a large group of people, what would it be?

realising happiness in non-activity, which I think probably is the most important teaching/ message, but hardly one anyone would listen to it,

Haha, well, there's a lot to be said for relying on good old Buddhist messages. If you do the work to understand them that is.

I think trusting yourself works on a few levels. I've been thinking a lot about how we are taught to trust our heads more than our hearts. We believe we are thinking beings with feelings, but really we're feeling beings with a few thoughts. Most of our intelligence comes from all the networks of nerves, fascia, the skin and so on, sending messages that help us navigate the world. But we're told to ignore those signallers and simply rely on the brain's interpretation of them, which can filter it in all kinds of ways according to how we are conditioned to respond to things.

So we ignore the messages that are actually hidden in our language - butterflies in the tummy, shivers down the spine, and so on. The body knows - we just need to listen.

And cut out the noise of Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Media and all the Bigs that tell us to listen to them, above all, and plant thoughts in our head that are designed to supersede gut reactions, our heart's knowing, our skin's needs.

So yeah. Trust yourself.