An apple falls when it is ripe, and no one can force the branch to let go. Awakening is the same. It comes in its own moment, not on command. But ripening is another matter. The small releases, seeing through the opposites you are caught between, facing the fears you have been managing your whole life, loosening the grip on who you take yourself to be, all of that is work you can actually do, and all of it brings the fruit closer to falling. That ripening is what I coach.