Day 215 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Many of You Will Get to Travel...

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Lesson 215: Many of You Will Get to Travel...

For those that get to travel in this lifetime, it is a privilege and a gift. Not everyone is fortunate enough to do this. This doesn’t stop us from imagining what it would be like to travel. We can always imagine this in our mind’s eye. For those lucky enough to travel, do you find that you learn whilst on your trips? Do you find your perspective changed towards your own life? Today we are to think about the abundance we have at home through entertainment, food, water, clothing, money etc and drop away from this group mentality of scarcity.

When I travel I love seeing how other people live. In most Western countries, I have found that many people live just like how I do in Australia. I think the most life changing places I’ve seen is when I visited Thailand and Philippines. What was eye opening was that people are more happier even though they don’t necessarily have enough or have what I consider to be perks. I think what I valued most was the true sense of community in these countries and how even though people might not have the best of things (what we consider to be the best in the Western world), they have great support of each other.

Travelling to these countries, I take for granted such things like clean drinking water for instance. I take for granted that I can have a nice warm shower every day and when I visited A Thailand village, the water was cut off and I was told we may have to wait a day before it’s back on. It was being exposed to such circumstances that really open your eyes. It opened my eyes to the stupid shit I worry about, but also how much stupid shit this world can worry about. I think about all those girls missing out on Kylie Jenner’s lipstick and their world crumbling, when there are people out there cut off from a water supply. I needed this reality check to actually see how shit group mentality and group fear of scarcity is. We actually worry about the wrong things but we’re overwhelmingly force fed shit, that we just go along with it because we don’t know any better. It’s back to bringing about awareness in ourselves.

I have never in my life valued all the things I have as much as I do now. I pray for those that need help more than I do pretty much every other day of the week. I am more mindful of my place in the world and that I can make small changes to make a difference.

Day 91 - A Year to Clear - Check In WEEK 13 - Being Enough

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Lesson 91: Check In WEEK 13 - Being Enough

This week has been interesting in really recognising that we are enough and that we have enough. This is not a concept I had practised previously. I am grateful for the mantra “I am enough. I have enough. There is enough”. I may not have enforced it into my life before but I am now. Just being able to say that to myself in the mirror and believe it, is powerful in itself. There are many ways to be grateful in your life and recognise abundance. That mantra also makes you think about all your material possessions and what you don’t need because you will start to see that you truly have enough. This is such a major shift in thinking and we all can learn from simply repeating those words, applying it to yourself and actually believing it. When it sinks in, it feels great!

Day 37 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Our Need for Abundance

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Lesson 37: Your own needs for abundance...

Today is a consideration of what would make us fully abundant. Some areas we feel full in whilst others are progressively getting full. We can fill our lives with the physical/material, emotional and spiritual. I am to ask myself what would make me fully abundant. Once I answer that, is it my highest truth? Then I need to answer this again.

What would make me fully abundant is growing in my spiritual journey. I feel like this was what lacking in my life and it’s slowly being filled with goodness as I learn. It can only expand my mind and soul. To say if I’ll be full would be hard to answer on this because I feel like the spiritual journey can be never ending. There is so much knowledge to absorb, will one really be full?

The other thing I want is the love of a partner, to truly find someone that I connect with on all levels – physically, emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually. I feel like if I have this in my life it would just enhance my experience. I would be fuller. Rather than just giving out love and looking to care for myself, I would like to give and receive this from a partner.

This is my highest truth. In fact, I think I’ve repeated these exact comments more than once.

I am not answering this question again. I’ve done so a few times and I believe it’s my truth. They aren’t unreasonable and both are achievable. I am not about material gain anymore so it just does not apply in my life for abundance. I see abundance as enriching experiences that you make in your life.

Day 36 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Abundance

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Lesson 36: Abundance means having enough...

Today’s lesson revolves around how society has built up a mindset around abundance. Do we have enough? Do we not have enough? If we don’t have enough, that means we aren’t really happy and have that full feeling, but then again abundance will mean different things to each individual. We are told not to be fooled by what society tells us and write down our own needs today.

I feel like the only thing I “need” is a partner in life. I know I’ve mentioned this before but it’d be nice to share my life with someone. Everything else I think I “need” in my life are more wants. Even the partner is kind of a want because I can easily live life on my own and it’s more for companionship.

I don’t shop anymore because I don’t want clutter so I don’t need clothing. I have a house, job at the moment, money for food, so the needs for my livelihood are currently covered. I think those are necessities and are actual needs that most people would have.

Apart from this, I’m not really sure I “need” anything else. Everything else is definitely wants such as: I want to travel more, I want to study more on my spirituality, I want to meet more people that have my belief system, I want to live for experience, I want to be more creative. I could say needing spirituality is good for my mind and soul and finding a sense of community is comforting. Creativity makes me feel good about my life and that I’m being productive. Just living is needed to have an enriched life. So, I guess some of my wants borderline on needs because of how I want to live as much as possible.

It seems like such a tough answer for me trying to determine my needs. I am quite a simple person so I don’t feel I need as much as those who are less fortunate than me. That’s just my mindset now so I rarely think about what I need.