Day 135 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Take a Moment Today...

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Lesson 135: Take a Moment Today...

Today we are to hold compassion for someone or something that has bothered us. It is all about lifting the vibration. When we live with compassion, even in those moments that test us or triggers some emotional reaction or feeling, we don’t feel as bad when we apply compassion to those situations. We can make the vibrational shift whenever we want.

Today I thought of a situation that happened a couple of years ago where I was sexually harassed… some would say assaulted but that’s open for interpretation. The instance was a co-worker got too drunk, decided it was okay to inappropriately touch my best friend and then decided to slip his fingers a bit too far near my vagina, which was a violation of my body and personal boundaries. It was a debacle at the time, but when I complained to HR, my case was pretty much won because of people confirming the story. There were comments made such as “you don’t want to ruin peoples lives” “he was drunk, it’s okay” and I was made to feel bad because of what he did. I stood my ground however and was not going to back down on this fight. This person has a wife and kids and somehow that was my problem? It’s odd how humans work – man violates my body so therefore I must feel sorry for him…

Anyway, this came up in conversation today with a friend. Can’t remember the context but it was the first thing that came to mind when having to apply compassion for someone today. This is a huge ask of me because I still have mixed feelings of the situation. I hold compassion for myself but also this man. I hope he one day gains the understanding that his actions has consequences. I also hope he doesn’t do this to someone else and his family do not suffer for it. He comes from another country and culture where women are subjugated, so I really hope he one day sees women as equals. As I type this, it’s a nice thought if all of these thoughts flow through his mind. If I envision it, maybe it will happen.

Day 135 - A Year to Clear - Strike That

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Lesson 135: Strike That

So, what’s one thing that dominates our life? Our own minds. It floods with both negative and positive thoughts. When I tried to google how many thoughts does an average person have in a day, it answered with up to 70,000. To me, that seems excessive because you can be debilitated with one thought that repeats over and over in your mind, and I just don’t actually think that many thoughts pass through my brain. I know I have had one negative thought engrained in my mind cycling through my mind because I just wouldn’t let it go away. It was all consuming. I thought max you might get a few hundred at most. Maybe I just don’t think so a lot?

Anyway, the point of today’s lesson is to teach us how to keep the noise that clouds our mind out. That we can use a simple term (which Stephanie Bennett Vogt says happens in a courtroom quite often) “Strike that”. obviously, this requires a lot of awareness by yourself. You need to recognise the noise as something that doesn’t serve you in order to block it out. This would take so much practise, only because we can succumb to other peoples thoughts and have it influence us. It’s about training ourselves to be like “No, this doesn’t resonate with me and therefore I shouldn’t think about it further”. Sounds easy but when I actually think about this concept, it would actually be training your brain to filter things out automatically. At first, you’d be assessing everything said to you before it became a routine, and then blocking out certain things that don’t benefit you or your mind.

Do you think this can be a simple task?