Day 205 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Who Can You Help Without Fear...

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Lesson 205: Who Can You Help Without Fear...

Today we are to think about the people in our lives. Are there those we help without fear? Are there those that we avoid helping? Are we just to be witnesses to people’s lives? Or are we actually meant to help? Each person has their own path but sometimes if we need help we need to ask and if others need help, they need to ask for it also.

I generally am a generous person with my time. I have time for a lot of people in my life. I like to give everyone a go. I generally help when I can. I think I can sometimes help too much until I am depleted of energy. What I have done these days is make boundaries so I’m not over doing it when it comes to helping others. It’s one thing I’ve learned that there is only ever so much of yourself that you can give – sometimes people take advantage of that. I think it’s very much taking a situation and assessing it before you go to help.

Most of my friends are in a good place. I’d like to think that they would ask for help when they need it. I can only think of a couple of friends that REALLY need me and I dedicate my time to them when they need. Sometimes I just witness people and see if they can help themselves before I assist. I don’t leave people lingering though. I just watch to see if they can determine the answer themselves before reaching for my advice. I like to see people grow in this way.

How do you assist those around you?

Day 12 - A Year to Clear - Look Up

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Lesson 12: Look Up

Today’s lesson is to look up from the computer screen and recognise something of beauty. Taking a minute to really use awareness and focus on the details. Focusing on how it makes me feel.

I got up from my computer at work and looked out the window. I like being in a high rise being able to look outside. I like looking at the cars move with unity and people walking going about their day. I especially like how tiny everything looks at this level and that everything below looks like toys to play with. I can see the beach in the distance and it is a gloomy day today in Melbourne, so grey fills the city. I watch the clouds move and think about how free it looks up there. There is a rooftop garden that’s empty but the layout looks carefully architectured from my point of view. Looking at all the other buildings often makes me wonder how great it must have been to have been the designer of such structures. How someone must have looked up at their creation and thought “I did this” and how magnificent that must feel. I am always in awe of concrete jungles and what it must have taken to build such a city.

What I do notice is that it’s very calming. To be able to not focus on anything else but what I’m seeing. I often wonder what all those people down there are thinking about. But there is a beauty in just being an observer to the outside world. There’s a stillness and peaceful feeling with no sound to accompany what I’m seeing. Just being appreciative of being where I am is enough.