Day 261 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Consciousness Does Not Mean Without Pain

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Lesson 261: Consciousness Does Not Mean Without Pain

As we’ve been learning about the passage of the heart, it’s reinforced today that we won’t ever avoid pain. What we’ve built up is that we are more able to move in and out of pain quicker than we ever have before. We can move quickly through pain, compassion and connection. Today’s lesson is to be aware of pain that may come to you and progress it through compassion and connection in a fast manner. If you’ve been following these lessons with me, notice the difference from the start of the year to now.

I definitely know that I can deal with pain a lot better than I ever have been able to. I can even recognise the pain and aware enough to want to understand where it has come from. The challenge I have on myself is my application of compassion towards self. This is something that I sometimes miss and forget about. I do try and practise not being so hard on myself. We are always making decisions or taking actions on things that may not bring about the best outcome, and it’s forgiving those decisions we do make. I am always tell myself that it’s okay and to move along.

I will say that the connection I establish is for those that I want to be connected with. I cannot be around those that are a drain and there definitely people out there that do just that. I have worked hard in establishing good connections and try to cut out the toxicity that comes about in this world. I want to be with those that I feel truly connected with because that’s the environment I’ve built for myself. I also feel my best if I’m connecting myself spiritually through Mother Earth, through my magick or with others on similar paths. I feel energy when I’m connecting in this way. If I’m walking around my city, it’s easy to notice the disconnection between people and how I don’t feel connected with them. Is this something I need to work on? Are we meant to connect with everyone? Is this a larger pain that we need to solve through a passage of connection? Just poses more questions than answers doesn’t it?

Day 261 - A Year to Clear - Depressed or Deep Rest?

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Photo by Zohre Nemati on Unsplash

Photo by Zohre Nemati on Unsplash

Lesson 261: Depressed or Deep Rest?

“One day a client oozed into my office, slumped into a chair, and said she was depressed—only she said it so slowly that I thought she said “deep rest.” In a way, this was accurate. Depression can be part of a general shutdown, meant to turn us toward healing. A tired body, a tired mind, a tired heart can’t—and shouldn’t—be passionate about anything but rest. So if you’re exhausted, care for yourself.”
— Martha Beck

Today we are to take notice of something dragging us down and being aware of your own resistance. By acknowledging it, it starts to begin to release and then leads you towards rest within your being.

I can’t really think of something that was dragging me down today. I went to work and that was busy and fine, I then went to a meeting for my business logo and then I came home. Nothing really dragged me down and made me depressed. I think the only thing that has been on my mind lately is how to find time because I don’t seem to have enough of it. Everything in my life is going smoothly at the moment. Like I had a depressive state for a month or so, but I got myself out of it. I think the best thing I did for myself was being aware of it and taking steps to deal with it. I didn’t necessarily rest as this lesson suggests, but more so face what was causing my depression. This weekend I have a public holiday which means a longer weekend for me, so I intend to do not much on the Friday to rest a bit. Sometimes doing nothing is what’s needed to reset.

Are you resisting rest and allowing something to drag you down? Can you release it?