Day 71 - A Year to Clear - It's Just Energy

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Lesson 71: It's Just Energy

New week equals a new theme and this week it is “Sensing Energies”.

Energy is constantly transforming, moving, evolving, changing and flowing. It doesn’t judge you and it doesn’t hold values of good or bad.

When it comes to clearing, from what I have learned so far, it’s about moving thoughts and energy in and out to create this constant flow. Some bad thoughts move out and some good ones move in. You move some items that you don’t use anymore out and then allow more space to move in. So, with us progressively clearing, we’re constantly moving energy around even though it may feel uncomfortable, it’s still with our purest intentions. By consistent release, it allows us to grow into truer selves, and thus, we invite more welcoming energy in. We are our own makers and I have never felt more connected to this concept in my life.

Day 71 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Animals Hold No Morality...

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Lesson 71: Animals Hold No Morality...

Like the lesson title suggests, animals do not hold any morality. Reading over the lesson, it talks about how animals have “no shadow” which I believe is true. They love unconditionally and don’t hold malice towards any being. They exist with purest intentions. By accepting this notion of animals, they are said to be “fully integrated beings” which is the same for most creations of nature – the sun, mountains, trees, plants, wind, the moon, babies. The idea is to accept that you can live in this way, accepting who you are and this is meant to be the Divine.

The exercise for today is to look for “good trees” and “bad trees” and see how the concept of good and bad don’t apply. Can you hold the same notion for yourself? Because apparently it is true for you.

I know I have struggled with this notion in previous lessons. And honestly, I just can’t say it’s right in all aspects. I get the concept of getting rid of this idea of “good” and “bad”. I understand that the idea is to accept all of your thoughts and actions as just simply you. It kind of follows the idea that we’re not perfect, we all have flaws and it’s about accepting it all as you.

Where I disagree is that us humans are not all the same. For instance, a person who kills another person, I see as bad. I don’t see how this action is in any way good, but going off this lesson, if we do away with morality, am I or that killer just meant to accept that as Divine? I don’t think so. If this lesson is all about everyone simply accepting ourselves for who we are, shouldn’t I look upon that person as immoral? I don’t think compassion in this instance is necessarily a good thing, when there are some people with psychological issues to purposely harm others. It’s these type of situations I think about where I don’t agree with us doing away with morality completely. I just can’t accept that someone causing harm is their true selves and I am meant to accept that about them.

I think if we want to find some inner peace, we can definitely look at our own morality and do away with it within ourselves in order to reach a Divine state. But to be away with it as a whole, I just don’t think I can do away with morals. I’d like to think we could live with this idealism and sounds like that could be a peaceful society to live in, but it’s something every single person would have to take on in order to achieve something so beautiful. If we are about getting rid of good and bad in ourselves to accept the light and dark parts wholly and truly, then yes, I think it’s an awakening. Do I think we should do away with morality towards others? Definitely not.

Day 70 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Each Person on Earth Contains...

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Lesson 70: Each Person on Earth Contains...

Today is very much acceptance of our shadow self and our Divine self. To imagine them as a whole in the centre of the body, acknowledging that the shadow part of ourselves – anger, pain, suffering, anxiety etc, is very much a part of all the notions we hold as “good”. We can become truly Divine when we can accept both parts to shape us into this whole. Once doing this visualisation, I am to note any changes in energy.

So, I visualised my shadow and divine energy in various ways. I saw one black wing in my back and one white wing. Then I visualised a black silhouette of myself on one side and a white silhouette on the other. I combined the energy to go to my solar plexus chakra and the energy became two fishes swimming around like a Yin Yang. Those two fish are just circulating and combining this dark and light side. Further to this, I feel that energy circulating and radiating out.

After this visualisation, I kind of feel a bit drained. Almost like it was a realisation I didn’t have before but have now been awakened to. But over the last few days, I know that this has been the theme of accepting the dark parts of our self, as well as the light/good sides. We are balanced beings by having the two. Maybe I am feeling a bit drained and woozy from the day I’ve had but not necessarily from that visualisation. Unless my body feeling drained is just more of an acceptance that helps my soul and my soul got a bit of a hit by receiving this information? No matter this feeling, I appreciated the meditation I had in encompassing dark and light sides.

Day 70 - A Year to Clear - Check In WEEK 10 - Breathing In Calm

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Lesson 70: Check In WEEK 10 - Breathing In Calm

So, the weekly check in has me reviewing what I learned this past week with all the breathing exercises and what ways more “calm” has come into my life.

I can definitely say that I do feel more calmness as I practise and focus on breathing into situations. Like right now, I don’t really think about too much, except for focusing on my goals. I have done more healing visualisations with the breathing exercises and have felt overall goodness. I went to visit the Twelve Apostles today along the coast of Victoria, Australia (major tourist attraction) and I just stood there, closed my eyes and just breathed in the calm of that natural setting. It was amazing! Like what a nice feeling of calm that nature brought to me. I honestly believe visualising some positive images or goals, whilst doing your breathing, helps with it more. If we’re calming our mind, then we should also accommodate positive images to get us out of that stress, anxiety, worry etc. I think even just 5 minutes a day, if you are stretched for time, would make all the difference in the world.

Day 69 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The Idea of Being Good...

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Lesson 69: The Idea of Being Good...

Today’s lesson is quite controversial but at the same time, it’s not. We tend to live with this notion that we need to be good, being bad is not good and therefore, if we aren’t good then we are bad. We live with negative things in this world with a lot positive also. We live where the Divine touches our lives but also the wicked can also. We can argue that we have bad thoughts but also good ones. There is always a natural flow of the two, and the lesson is about accepting your whole self without the attachment of always classifying yourself as good nor bad.

Today is about thinking about the idea of nice, healthy, good etc versus the idea of rebellion, not fitting in, bad etc. This all whilst asking if we think either is “true”.

This lesson is tough for me to talk about, in the sense that I get what it’s teaching, but I believe doing good deeds go a long way. I get the modality of having a yin and yang type of balance, completely understand that, but I believe in a type of karma of being good to others will allow a positive vibration, which naturally carries to others. I think yes, we have a bad side and I can accept that we’re not perfect in any way. We make mistakes, we get to lows we never thought we could, we aren’t always good decision makers etc. It’s in our make up to learn from failures and grow to overcome them.

I also believe that there are bad people out there whom purposely go out of their way to make other people’s lives miserable. Do I want to consider that I’m on the same level as those types of people? Not particularly, no. The lesson is to do away with thinking “good” is where you need to be. Just accept all the flows of both good and bad within you. Yep I can do that, but do I really want to be without the concept of good when not everyone is good?

As you can see I don’t necessarily agree with this lesson. I don’t think that we all are necessarily balanced in both good and bad, nor should we be. Sure, we go through one extreme to another but some people choose to reside in more good and some reside in more bad. Do I really want to give up the notion of being “good” when it’s placed against a “bad” person? I think we should always tip the scales to good.