Day 69 - A Year to Clear - Can You Receive?

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Lesson 69: Can You Receive?

“Can you allow yourself to receive the fullness of your success?”

— Oprah Winfrey

Today's lesson is to simply breathe in this quote from Oprah Winfrey. 

I mean can definitely visualise, meditate, set intentions and just believe in this concept. The way I decided to breathe this in was to close my eyes, speak out loud my successes and breathe in and out. I believe we can definitely celebrate small successes which may make up a larger picture to bigger successes. I think when we can appreciate even the smaller successes, it allows us to be more open to receive the fullness that Oprah mentions. What do you think?

Day 68 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The person who...

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Lesson 68: The person who...

Didn’t post this on Friday as I was celebrating my friend’s mum’s 70th birthday. Just got home bloated and wanted to crash. Just needed that for me.

So Friday’s lesson was all about taking some time to think about "The Person Who" has good distractions versus "The Person Who" bad distractions. Does a person who goes out and use playing a sport as a distraction (as an example), just as easily distracted as a person who uses drugs and alcohol? If we are just finding good and bad ways to distract, the idea is that we are not open to the light.

Friday was all about asking what if we didn’t do these “good” things for the day? What is your reaction? Do you find that your instant thought is to reject this idea or do you feel a relief?

So using my happy distraction of music – I think I would die without it. Now that’s extreme but I just don’t think I could live without it. That’s kind of my safe space which I suppose I’ve created. I guess the point of the lesson is that you don’t necessarily need it as it can close you off from yourself, the world, the situation. I know I get lost in music to stop thinking about something that’s bothered me in some way. If I just take a moment, go through my feelings and my emotions towards any situation, I can actually face it and overcome it – no matter how minor or major it is.

This lesson really got me thinking about good and bad distractions on such a wider level, it’s amazing how “awake” I’m becoming. We don't have to continue to distract ourselves if we just accept it with some good light, deal with it and then release.

Day 68 - A Year to Clear - Get Out of Your Way

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Lesson 68: Get Out of Your Way

I would have posted this on Friday but I had no time. Celebrated my friend’s mums 70th birthday which I thought was more important. I did think about the lesson though. Friday’s lesson was all about taking on the concept that we get in our own way when it comes to clearing. It’s realising that anything we can’t release is actually us holding onto that memory, habit, thought etc, which is therefore how we get stuck, and how we get in our own way. It was actually an “oh yeah!” moment for me. Like yeah, I really hold onto shit I probably shouldn’t because it just doesn’t really serve me anymore.

Friday’s lesson is all about asking ourselves what is getting in the way and what that answer is. Really breathing into the process.

When I thought about what I do to get in my own way, it’s really just negative thoughts. Simple thoughts like “I can’t do this” or “I don’t like my life”, just really get in the way. And I’ve said this before that anyone can be the limiting factor in their life, but also have the power to change their lives. I am working on dispelling those thoughts because I honestly don’t know where they come from sometimes. I don’t think it’s as bad as I’ve always remembered, and I am making tracks, so that is a positive.

Apart from this, the other thing that holds me back is remembering the feelings and emotions I had through old memories. I seem to go back there if that makes sense. I start to feel bad about things in the past in which I need to leave behind in the past. Mostly I think about how shit I felt through my past lovers and abortion. These memories really don’t serve me a purpose because it’s time to move forward. They happened and I can’t change anything. Definitely working progress that I am aware of.

Day 67 - A Year to Clear - Breathe Into Calm

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Lesson 67: Breathe Into Calm

It’s not always a ringing phone that sends you into fight-or-flight. Maybe it’s the energy at work, or you walk into a room and find a bunch of clutter, or maybe confronting a friend with something difficult you need to speak to them about. Whatever it is, today’s lesson is about breathing into it and creating enough calm to be able to take on the issue. By taking a deep breath in, the next step will be come to you.

I tend to do this when I am losing focus at work. I close my eyes, take in a few deep breaths, be aware that the sun coming through the window is warm and just refocus on the task at hand. It’s very useful when I’m like “oh shit, I just forgot what I was just doing”. I also use this method when I am feeling a bit anxious. Just get those breaths in, bring awareness, and bring some warmth. Then just feel a relaxing calmness fill your body and go back to what you were doing. Sometimes I really feel like it’s a power lift or energy boost if you will. You can power on even if you feel tired and then just keep going. It’s amazing!

Keep those breaths up!

Day 67 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - What Do You Distract Yourself With

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Lesson 67: What do you distract yourself with...

Today is continuing on our distractions and what we compulsively distract ourselves with. Is it possible that some of these distractions are healthy or beneficial to us? I am to write these “good habits” down, think about whether it matters or not if they are “good”, and consider if they are still distractions. Can it be that they are distractions that don’t allow our heart to open fully?

So, I thought long and hard about this throughout the day and really can’t come up with a “good” distraction. I don’t have a habit I do consistently that would be considered as “good”. I wake up most days, feed my cats, get ready for work, go to work, hang out with a friend or nap, do my blogging, maybe do another activity and repeat. On Saturdays I work at a witch shop and maybe hang out with friends after or relax on my own. Then on Sunday’s it’s mixed bag of mediumship class every fourth Sunday or I’m resting, going to markets and hanging with friends. I honestly could not think of some “good” distraction. I could only think of my phone addiction which distracts me from living my life sometimes. Nothing that can be obsessive either.

I mean, I guess those moments that I go into meditation are “good” distractions which I think is good for overall health. I can see if you’re using something “good” like exercise as a distraction, that sure, you’re working towards a good healthy body, but is it good for your soul really? I think as I go forward, I am opening more. I don’t really have a good answer on today’s lesson. I have a bad habit but nothing of the “good” sort. I mean, when we’re working on our hearts, we should really be in tune, be open to receive and be aware. When we’re ready to let go of distractions, then we work through the feelings of our pain.

I just had a thought pop in and that was of music being my distraction... sometimes. I think I really resonate with music because beats and words can be powerful and uplifting. But then again, I just listen to music because I need to get myself going when I’m losing focus. The beats are rhythmic and are like fire to light me up a bit. I think music is a good thing to relax to. This may be the only thing I use as a distraction/relaxation but I am not compulsive over it. But I feel like music can open me up also.

Think about your “good” distractions and tell me what you got. I tried hard for this lesson but didn’t turn up with much. Haha!