Day 290 - A Year to Clear - Be With Not Knowing

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Lesson 290: Be With Not Knowing

Sometimes things in life don’t make sense. Sometimes we feel like we can’t figure things out so situations feel unresolved. Sometimes we are just boggled and can’t find the right answer. Today is about being okay with discomfort. That in the discomfort of not knowing, that we can find clarity as it will also reveal itself. What’s something that has been providing discomfort lately or an issue occurring in your life that you don’t really understand why?

For me, I think that the major thing that has brought questions of why, is my mum telling me she has a growth in her breast. I find out soon if it’s cancer. I have been trying to process it. It’s one of those things that you don’t wish upon anyone, especially someone you love, but it’s a part of life. I had a good cry and let the emotions flow through me. What makes me uncomfortable at the moment is the waiting game of further tests to confirm. The wait is the shittiest part of all of this.

What it has allowed me to think about is why it’s important to allow challenges in your life to flow through you. Get upset, take the time to process and then think about the way to move forward. What it teaches me is not to wallow and allow my emotions to consume me. I believe that it’s about embracing the discomfort and learning from it. There may be roller coaster moments of emotion during these challenges, but that’s all part of building resilience. We become strong through things we haven’t faced before – sometimes because we have to. I think it’s important to not solely face on what’s going wrong, but what positive thoughts and actions I can bring to the situation. It’s about how we overcome adversity and how that experience can assist another.  Sometimes it’s just about having to think bigger than ourselves.

Did you find clarity within something in your life this week?

Day 290 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - If We Were Not Born...

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Lesson 290: If We Were Not Born...

“If we were not born, if we didn’t die, there would be no “container” for this particular human lifetime. The finite nature of our lives is what makes them extraordinary.”
— Sara Wiseman

Today we are to think about what else we want to experience in this life with the time we have left.

It’s a bit tough to think about how much time we have left when we don’t have the answer as to when we go. Maybe that’s the point of this lesson… because we don’t know the time we have left on this earth, why aren’t we trying to experience as much as we can?

I know I live for experience in my life. I changed my mindset nearly 2 years ago to really start doing things that brought joy into my life. By living this way, I’ve made some interesting progress and realising the only limit in life is myself.

The only thing I really want to do in life is travel to more places in the world to experience the culture. I want to see how other people live, make a better effort in finding a place to volunteer at and enjoy my time learning. I think that’s the only thing I want to truly experience – seeing other cultures and helping others. I also think that I’ll live until I’m quite old so that’s why I think I have so much time left. I don’t necessarily think I have limited time. I think I have plenty of time. Plus, it takes money to travel and I need time to save.

I think what I’ve embracing is my creative side – more so lately than ever before. It was something that was inside of me that I didn’t know I really had. It’s been great being able to express myself. Painting is becoming part of my experience also. I enjoy it very much.

Apart from these things, I can’t really say there is much more I want to experience. I mean, this may change in 5 years, but for now, I’m quite happy where I am in life.

How about you?