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.