Day 89 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - It Is Difficult...

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Lesson 89: It Is Difficult...

To hold compassion for yourself may not be so easy if you have hurt someone else. We are definitely not perfect and it’s more than okay to make mistakes. Wouldn’t you say we’re all the same in this regard? People can hurt us just as easily as we hurt others.

If you have hurt someone, do you think that you need to right this wrong? Or should you just release it as a slip-up? I can’t answer this for you but you can look within yourself for the answer.

I think it’s good to apologise but if the moment has truly gone and passed, is there reason to bring it up? I think in some situations, having that closure really helps people and ends a chapter in their lives. If we set it for release, we do need to take the approach of holding compassion for ourselves – accept what you did, accept that we are not perfect beings, learn the lesson and then move forward. We should be beating ourselves up over past mistakes though we should definitely learn the lesson. Apply awareness so you notice what not to do next time to another. You have to open yourself fully.

Day 89 - A Year to Clear - Meditation - Enough

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Photo by Jared Erondu on Unsplash

Photo by Jared Erondu on Unsplash

Lesson 89: AUDIO Meditation - Enough

Today is all about focusing on the following phrases through meditation.

  • I am enough
  • I have enough
  • There is enough

You can place some instrumental music on, take deep breaths and repeat each phrase, noticing what rises within your body, noticing how your breathing is, what thoughts pass through? Keep repeating “I am enough” for as long as you want and move onto the next phrase “I have enough” and finally “There is enough” when you are ready. You might find that you have to focus on “I am enough” and that’s fine. The point of today’s exercise is to repeat it for as long as you need in the upcoming days until they hold your true meaning to those words.

For me, “I am enough” is really about me accepting me as I am and knowing that despite my flaws, I am perfect in my own way. “I have enough” really sinks in for me the fact that I am aware of my environmental impact, and that material possessions are not a way of life for me anymore. I haven’t bought anything that isn’t essential in my every day life. I know that I don’t need to fill my life with “stuff” and I am grateful for a lot of things – like food, shelter etc. “There is enough” really enforces a need for me to want to help others see the impacts we have on the world. We lead such consumerist lifestyles and ignorant to the fact it has harmful impacts to the planet. This for me is much larger than myself, and it’s about standing with my cause and helping others see. Definitely a big job that will span over years.

How do these phrases impact you?