Day 129 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - When You Have Compassion

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Lesson 129: When You Have Compassion...

Compassion…. It makes everything simple and easy when you hold it for yourself and others. That is the message of today. When you raise the vibration like this, there is no sadness, no anger, no frustration, no pain… All we have to do is close our eyes and ask the Divine for it. It’s as simple as that.

When I closed my eyes, I just asked the Universe to bless me. I spoke out loud that I’m only human and I make mistakes. I asked that I can always hold compassion for myself like I hold for others. I need to know to forgive myself. Yes, sometimes I make silly decisions but I always learn. It’s okay to make silly decisions as long as I learn from them. I am not perfect. No one is. I can be there for myself and I can be there for others.

As I was doing this, it really felt like everything was going to be okay. Like an unspoken reassurance. If I’m open, I can do anything.

Day 129 - A Year to Clear - Participatory Relationship

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Lesson 129: Participatory Relationship

Today’s lesson involved quantum physics and I just wasn’t having the brain capacity. Basically, a potential something becomes an actual something when it is observed. A chair wouldn’t materialise just because, but when it is imagined, observed or intended. These become form when we have given it our attention or energy. They wouldn’t exist without our subconscious or conscious “participation”. That’s me paraphrasing what was said which makes more sense now that I’ve typed it out.

Today we are to think about what are we giving our attention to?

When I think of terms of clutter, wouldn’t it be everything that is clutter? Haha! But today, it was pretty much my old bras that had broken underwire that needed to go. I had to get rid of them and trust me, throwing them in the bin was hard, but I had to buy new ones that fit properly. I think for me, throwing them away was hard because it seems like wasted material. I’m not sure that I could have upcycled them in any way… actually, I could probably use the cups and stitch them for the inside of a dress. But either way, the bra needs to go, but I guess the inside hoarder finds it hard to let go sometimes.

When I ask myself the question again, I think basically all my clutter. The furniture and clothes I’ve been trying to sell. The makeup I don’t use and want to give away to my friend’s daughter. All my belongings I want to rearrange to create my own space. I feel like everything is connected one way or another. So, wouldn’t all my attention be linked to it all?

Day 128 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Holding Others

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Lesson 128: Once You Have Been Able to Hold Others...

I certainly have opened up to compassion. I think the hardest and most challenging task is holding compassion for self. Holding compassion for others is somehow easier, because you identify with their suffering or pain, and therefore, have this urge to be there for that person. We truly are beautiful beings in this way and I am happy to those that are trying to practise this with me.

As we’re opening passages of the heart, we engage with our higher self or consciousness. We are trying to raise our vibration and release emotions that hold us back – things such as anger, pain, sadness. Today we are to imagine what it’s like to have parts of our heart’s armour torn down. This is us opening ourselves to possibilities, allows us to really see it and recognise it.

When I imagine my heart, there is just light bursting out of it. I have never imagined armour around it but now when I see, it’s more like sections being opened. Whenever I meditate, I imagine light going in and out of my heart, almost like a cleanse, but always free flowing. That energy also flows all through my body. I like to see my heart as slowly unfolding, that one day when I think I have achieved pure love, all those passages would be beaming bright. That’s what I’m working towards and even hopefully by the end of this course, I hope to achieve this. I guess we will have to wait until 31st December 2018. I hope that anyone reading this sees how I evolve as the year goes on.

I don’t claim to be a professional. I’m just a regular person trying to gain enlightenment in my own way. And through my own enlightenment, I hope to challenge others. It may be a slow journey but it’s steady.

Day 128 - A Year to Clear - There Is No Separation

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Lesson 128: There Is No Separation

Today is about using your awareness with realising that “there is no separation” from you to the next person, your possessions or your home. There is a state of interconnectedness between all things and to imagine that the qualities we see in things or others, whether they are friends or enemies are just a reflection and/or extension of ourselves.

I believe that we are all connected on a sacred geometrical level so therefore our energies are interconnected also. If we are all states of energy or states of being, then aren’t we all somewhat absorbing each other’s emotions and feelings, and not only that, but influencing each other with opinions and values. We all build our own environments from things we’ve learned from parents, teachers, friends and society. We take a bit from here and there and build our own perception. In this way, even if you don’t believe in energy or sacred geometry like I do, don’t you think we are all connected in bits and pieces? We are not separate at all. Each and every one of us possess things we like in each other and to me, those are qualities we hold within ourselves.

I can’t see any other way of us not being connected as a whole. What do you think?

Day 127 - A Year to Clear - Shine Your Light Brightly

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Lesson 127: Shine Your Light Brightly

“There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe. . .The horizontal threads are in space. The vertical threads are in time. At every crossing of the threads there is an individual. And every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe.”

— Rig Veda - Vedic Sanskrit Hymns

New week equals a new theme of “Expanding Awareness”. We are to consider the quote from ancient religious hymns in Indian mythology.

The key message is to lift your own vibration and shine your light. Let your light spread. If you raise the vibration, then watch those around you lift their vibration also. We all have this power, if we choose to. Maybe sometimes there isn’t always someone to lead the way for us, so we need to harness the power ourselves to do it. I for one do not have someone I idolise and don’t append myself to one way of thinking. I take bits and pieces from things I pick up to light up my own path. I know the struggle that can be to not have someone to follow. Sometimes, I feel that I need to tackle things on my own, because not everyone can be there for you when you need them, and sometimes you just have to rely on yourself in life. So, I’ve been trying to shine my own light, learning everything on my own and hope that my light will spread to others.