Day 235 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The Heart of Connection...

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Lesson 235: The Heart of Connection...

“The heart of connection, of knowing oneself as one of One, opens easily in sex. This is because sex is Divine union of physical, Divine union of energetic. This is the purpose of sex: Oneness.”

— Sara Wiseman

Today we are to think Oneness in sex and if it’s something you feel during this union. If you don’t, why not? Is there something holding you back?

I personally have never thought about Oneness with sex. I also feel that I haven’t met someone to have that type of true connection with. I think it could be an amazing experience by allowing Oneness to just be. I think this is something I am aware of now. I find that in a past relationship, there was definitely passion and love to a certain point, though I don’t believe I experienced Oneness in energetic Divine union. I think this might actually be achieved by people you deem as soul mates or you have solid connection with. I have found in my experience that a lot of straight men are quite transactional where I live – I am not judging by the way. I find that they just want to have sex and move onto the next, which does not allow for true connection.

The environment in which I live makes it challenging for someone like me wanting to establish a connection because everything is so casual. I’m definitely not losing hope! It will happen when it’s supposed to. And, when it happens, I might actually get a chance to experience this Oneness.

Day 234 - A Year to Clear - Lesson 234: Flip the Switch

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Lesson 234: Lesson 234: Flip the Switch

We spend a lot of our time doing tasks throughout our day – from remembering to wash the dishes, deciding what to eat for lunch, sitting all day at the computer working, worrying about finances, thinking about what we look good in… the lists go on and on. If you stop for a moment and clear your mind for a moment, that’s welcoming in stillness. Stillness is just a step or “switch” away. Can it be that easy though? Can we just flip a switch and be instantly still? What do you think you need to do to achieve this stillness on a day to day basis?

When I get overwhelmed, I personally close my eyes and start to breathe. I think this is my stillness that I require to just calm things down. There are days where I stay home and do nothing, as in literally don’t think about anything and watch a senseless show so I’m not over working my brain – this is also how I achieve stillness. Being around my friends actually help me find stillness. Even though I may be doing an activity with them, it actually takes me away from my own worries, so to me that’s achieving stillness in another way. Another form of stillness is practising meditation. This blocks out any outside noise and allows you to dispel the negative of the day and replenish in silence. I believe meditation to be such a life saver in that regard. And one final one off the top of my head is listening to music. Not doing anything but chilling to music or dancing to it as a form of letting go, allows me not to think and be still in the music.

I think achieving stillness requires awareness to bring it in. What do you think?

Day 234 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - For Some People...

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Lesson 234: For Some People...

Spiritual awakening is your unique journey. There are times when it can be overwhelming as you start to shift from a life that once was, to a life that is. We move from passage of pain to compassion and now we are currently moving into connection. We are opening our hearts in new ways. Today we are to think about how our heart has unfolded in the past year and in the past few weeks, how has your connection expanded?

I personally have learned a whole great deal in the past year. The most important lesson I have learned is that a world exists outside this little bubble we create around ourselves. Not saying that I was a selfish person, it’s more like I’m aware of me and those around me. Everyone has a story, everyone has a journey, everyone has their own internal struggles.

I have learned to be forgiving towards myself. I’m like the worst person at recognising that I am human and I make mistakes…. And that’s okay! I think I was so hard on myself because I liked everything being perfect but perfectionism is just an illusion. It’s okay for me to break down, it’s okay for me to have an off day, it’s okay to say the wrong thing sometimes (if I don’t know any better). I am just as human as anyone else and I have opened myself to learning the lesson rather than beat myself up over things.

Another thing that I am working on is to practise pure love. It’s so challenging. I think what I am learning is that I am practising more patience and tolerance of people. Understanding that each individual may have a back story to why they get angry over small things, or why they panic in straight forward situations or why everyone has their little quirks towards different situations. I come from a place of non-judgement and am always trying to take on a different perspective to accommodate others.

In the past few weeks, I’ve gone through and had a reconfirmation that we are all One and all energy combined. I always worry that I won’t find the right people that I truly connect with but they will come exactly when they are meant to. Establishing that people are closer than I think, has helped me in the past few weeks. I have established some great connections along the way and there are more to come.

Day 233 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Opening Into the Heart of Connection...

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Lesson 233: Opening Into the Heart of Connection...

When we open ourselves to the passage of connection, it allows an awakening for us. We expand spiritually. This comes from the understanding of “One”. We are all One. Today we are to think about our own spiritual awakening and if you haven’t reached that stage yet, do you want to be awakened?

I feel like this is a repeated question that I’ve answered in the previous passages of the heart. I think anyone reading this right now, knows that I have had a spiritual awakening. It was during a time of tragedy but I was shown in such a beautiful way that there was something much larger than myself. I think I needed to be awakened at the right time. I felt like I had inklings as a child that I was spiritually inclined away from Catholicism, though I don’t think I would have been ready to accept what I do as an adult. I believe in the other side but not what I was traditionally taught. I believe in a collective of Gods and Goddesses and not of just one God. I believe a great power in the Universe. I believe in spirits that can teach you from the other side. I believe in the energy and power of magick that I perform through witchcraft and ritual.

You’re probably wondering how I know if anything I believe in is true? It’s weird, but it’s just a knowing and having faith in what I believe in. I don’t necessarily believe in everything that people teach me and what I’ve learned on my own, but there is like this instinct within me based on my own experience that makes whatever I believe is real. I can see people on the other side, I can connect with various deities, I can access my higher self and have had the Universe answer me directly. Some people call it God, God is One (and everything), we are children of God and that God is touching my life. I don’t believe in one encompassing ruling power – I’ve always had this thought in my head that there is a collective power. What that collective power is how we are all One connecting energy, that also transcends time and space, which allows me to see beyond our immediate plane that connects with other beings. With this combined power of One from all these planes and beings, as well as the Universe, to me I see it as a collective. If I can see into another world, so to speak, how would one explain it? Some people may think it’s an explosive imagination or that I’m crazy, though what if it’s not? If I have undeniable faith in what I believe, does it make it less real than someone else’s beliefs?

I believe that we are all awakened in our own way. We find our path and the journey is ours alone. I would not discount someone else’s experience because it isn’t the same as my own. What I do have a problem is people imposing their views on me when I am happy with my spirituality. I don’t need someone to tell me what they think I should do. That’s why we need to be open.

I kind of went off topic and to answer the question simply, yes, I have been spiritually awakened and it was the greatest thing to ever happen to me. How was yours?

Day 233 - A Year to Clear - The Renewing Magic of Grace

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Lesson 233: The Renewing Magic of Grace

Today’s lesson goes through those moments when we get sick and start to bombard our minds with worst case scenarios, or just thoughts about not wanting to be sick. We sometimes try so hard to resist the sickness and hating life when sick, when sometimes it’s telling us a wider message that is needed. Stephanie Bennett Vogt talks about how we could let those thoughts cycle around or we can detach from it. By surrendering in this way, you will find a stillness come about. Rather than fight, it’s a letting go and just being. By letting go in this way, you may feel “The enveloping, quieting, renewing magic. . . of grace." Today we are to think of a time when we experienced deep stillness and what did it feel like. Is it something you find yourself doing often?

I find deep stillness when I meditate. It’s something I do weekly and it’s something I do to close off from the world for a moment. I could do it more often for sure but sometimes I find I get my questions during my meditations than answers. It’s good for relaxing as I feel refreshed once doing it and I cultivate that stillness in this way. Another more recent example of stillness I had, was taking some time out of work just to be away from work. I had all these plans I wanted to do whilst on leave, especially for my business, but I got this strong feeling that I wasn’t supposed to do that. I was to surrender to rest. I just needed some sleep and to allow that rest in. I felt like I didn’t have enough time off actually. My mind and body had another plan for me, so I just surrendered to what it needed rather than what I thought I needed to do.

Embrace the art of letting go and detachment in order to bring in stillness. It’s all part of our self-care too.