Day 72 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The First Passage of the Heart...

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Lesson 72: The First Passage of the Heart...

So, today is about going back to the first passage of the heart which is pain. We tend to distract ourselves from really exploring this passage of the heart, and understandably so. If we don’t truly deal with our pain, it doesn’t allow our hearts to be open to receive. We can all work through our pain if we just allow the love and light in.

Today is all about thinking about what personal catastrophe, tragedy, personal chaos etc you’ve experienced lately and in what they have truly taught you about yourself. How have these experiences been a gift towards you? If you feel you’ve already passed through the passage of pain, just recognise where you are and appreciate the moment you truly surpassed your pain.

Right now, I don’t feel like I’ve been through a recent situation to have me feeling pain. If I’m thinking about where I am in life right now, my life has been going pretty good in comparison to last year. I think I still have lifelong pain that I hope to resolve soon via hypnotherapy. What I am still experiencing is chaos at work. With no real direction and manager from a recent restructure, I am still waiting for this to be implemented and have been in limbo for nearly 4 months now. I cannot deal with this type of environment. I need busy and a bit of stress to truly feel like my contribution to the company means something.

What I am learning is a decent amount of patience or lack thereof on my part. I am trying to overcome it but it just gets to me some days. I need answers and I need them now! I don’t like the thought of not knowing the status of my job and where it’s going. This experience just reinforces the fact that I value structure and a method of doing things. I think when everything is in order, it makes for a productive environment when it comes to work. If anything, this experience has highlighted the strong features I have in myself. I guess if I’m looking at this from passage of the heart, then this pain point does show that I can get through anything, even when my patience is pushed. So, I should really hold onto these characteristics to combat other situations.

Day 71 - A Year to Clear - It's Just Energy

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Lesson 71: It's Just Energy

New week equals a new theme and this week it is “Sensing Energies”.

Energy is constantly transforming, moving, evolving, changing and flowing. It doesn’t judge you and it doesn’t hold values of good or bad.

When it comes to clearing, from what I have learned so far, it’s about moving thoughts and energy in and out to create this constant flow. Some bad thoughts move out and some good ones move in. You move some items that you don’t use anymore out and then allow more space to move in. So, with us progressively clearing, we’re constantly moving energy around even though it may feel uncomfortable, it’s still with our purest intentions. By consistent release, it allows us to grow into truer selves, and thus, we invite more welcoming energy in. We are our own makers and I have never felt more connected to this concept in my life.

Day 71 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Animals Hold No Morality...

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Lesson 71: Animals Hold No Morality...

Like the lesson title suggests, animals do not hold any morality. Reading over the lesson, it talks about how animals have “no shadow” which I believe is true. They love unconditionally and don’t hold malice towards any being. They exist with purest intentions. By accepting this notion of animals, they are said to be “fully integrated beings” which is the same for most creations of nature – the sun, mountains, trees, plants, wind, the moon, babies. The idea is to accept that you can live in this way, accepting who you are and this is meant to be the Divine.

The exercise for today is to look for “good trees” and “bad trees” and see how the concept of good and bad don’t apply. Can you hold the same notion for yourself? Because apparently it is true for you.

I know I have struggled with this notion in previous lessons. And honestly, I just can’t say it’s right in all aspects. I get the concept of getting rid of this idea of “good” and “bad”. I understand that the idea is to accept all of your thoughts and actions as just simply you. It kind of follows the idea that we’re not perfect, we all have flaws and it’s about accepting it all as you.

Where I disagree is that us humans are not all the same. For instance, a person who kills another person, I see as bad. I don’t see how this action is in any way good, but going off this lesson, if we do away with morality, am I or that killer just meant to accept that as Divine? I don’t think so. If this lesson is all about everyone simply accepting ourselves for who we are, shouldn’t I look upon that person as immoral? I don’t think compassion in this instance is necessarily a good thing, when there are some people with psychological issues to purposely harm others. It’s these type of situations I think about where I don’t agree with us doing away with morality completely. I just can’t accept that someone causing harm is their true selves and I am meant to accept that about them.

I think if we want to find some inner peace, we can definitely look at our own morality and do away with it within ourselves in order to reach a Divine state. But to be away with it as a whole, I just don’t think I can do away with morals. I’d like to think we could live with this idealism and sounds like that could be a peaceful society to live in, but it’s something every single person would have to take on in order to achieve something so beautiful. If we are about getting rid of good and bad in ourselves to accept the light and dark parts wholly and truly, then yes, I think it’s an awakening. Do I think we should do away with morality towards others? Definitely not.

Day 70 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Each Person on Earth Contains...

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Lesson 70: Each Person on Earth Contains...

Today is very much acceptance of our shadow self and our Divine self. To imagine them as a whole in the centre of the body, acknowledging that the shadow part of ourselves – anger, pain, suffering, anxiety etc, is very much a part of all the notions we hold as “good”. We can become truly Divine when we can accept both parts to shape us into this whole. Once doing this visualisation, I am to note any changes in energy.

So, I visualised my shadow and divine energy in various ways. I saw one black wing in my back and one white wing. Then I visualised a black silhouette of myself on one side and a white silhouette on the other. I combined the energy to go to my solar plexus chakra and the energy became two fishes swimming around like a Yin Yang. Those two fish are just circulating and combining this dark and light side. Further to this, I feel that energy circulating and radiating out.

After this visualisation, I kind of feel a bit drained. Almost like it was a realisation I didn’t have before but have now been awakened to. But over the last few days, I know that this has been the theme of accepting the dark parts of our self, as well as the light/good sides. We are balanced beings by having the two. Maybe I am feeling a bit drained and woozy from the day I’ve had but not necessarily from that visualisation. Unless my body feeling drained is just more of an acceptance that helps my soul and my soul got a bit of a hit by receiving this information? No matter this feeling, I appreciated the meditation I had in encompassing dark and light sides.

Day 70 - A Year to Clear - Check In WEEK 10 - Breathing In Calm

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Lesson 70: Check In WEEK 10 - Breathing In Calm

So, the weekly check in has me reviewing what I learned this past week with all the breathing exercises and what ways more “calm” has come into my life.

I can definitely say that I do feel more calmness as I practise and focus on breathing into situations. Like right now, I don’t really think about too much, except for focusing on my goals. I have done more healing visualisations with the breathing exercises and have felt overall goodness. I went to visit the Twelve Apostles today along the coast of Victoria, Australia (major tourist attraction) and I just stood there, closed my eyes and just breathed in the calm of that natural setting. It was amazing! Like what a nice feeling of calm that nature brought to me. I honestly believe visualising some positive images or goals, whilst doing your breathing, helps with it more. If we’re calming our mind, then we should also accommodate positive images to get us out of that stress, anxiety, worry etc. I think even just 5 minutes a day, if you are stretched for time, would make all the difference in the world.