Day 9 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Teaching Each Other

Lesson 9: We are here to teach each other...

Today we have another lesson in soul growth and karmic crossings. Every person in our path is there to give us a much needed lesson, even if we aren't ready to see, or hear the message. It's a nice sentiment to know that we are all here to teach and learn from each other. I know I learn a lot from my soul circle, my family, acquaintances that leave profounding marks through words. I believe nothing happens by chance - whether is it experiences or meeting people, there's always a lesson you can take away to gain perspective in your life.

So the lesson today was to reassess with whom we have karma with. Has there been anyone that you've learned your lesson from and your karma is now complete? Has there been anyone you have yet to still learn from? I feel like this can easily be an essay but I won't make it so considering I'm only day 9 and there will be heavy days of writing to come. I'll go with the major turn around lessons in my life.

One of the most significant karmic lessons was what I learned from my ex-boyfriend. When you're young and in love, you tend to turn a blind eye to a lot of things, because you just want to please your partner with no bounds - well that's the thought I got in my head. My ex wanted me to be his idea of a "perfect" woman that was attentive to his needs. I changed my personality just to be with him because I so desperately wanted to be loved. That feeling to be wanted, needed and love far exceeded any common sense. If I went back to meet 18 year old me, I don't think I would have recognised who I was because I wasn't myself. And yet, this on and off relationship stayed prominently in my life because I just couldn't let it go. It wasn't until I met a friend who had a condition that could be well fatal at any time without warning. She taught me that life is precious and to live it to the fullest. Not only was I learning this karmic lesson from my friend: to be myself and just live, but it also opened my eyes at what I didn't want in my relationship with my ex. The karmic lesson from my ex is that I shouldn't let people suppress the real me - that I should be able to shine my own light and no one should have the power to dim it. I needed to learn that accepting myself is okay and if people don't like it, then that's their problem.

I want to mention my friend Ben. The major karmic lesson I've learned from Ben is to always place yourself in the other person's shoes. Sometimes when we're angry and seeing only the colour red, we tend not to take on the other perspective as to why someone acts the way they do, or make decisions that goes against your own. I feel like Ben always brings that perspective. This has made major impact in my life because I never used to think that way. It seems so obvious and a simple notion but it definitely lacked in my life. I now can take a step back and just take on another's perspective. I have gained a lot of understanding and reasoning by taking on this approach in life.

Would it be cheating to say I've learned a karmic lesson from the universe? I believe that I got an answer about having a larger purpose. When I was at my lowest, sick on a beach at Maldives watching the sun rise, I was so angry and empty after my abortion and I asked angrily to the universe something along the lines of "If there is something bigger out there than prove it because I don't believe in anything right now. If you're real show me a sign that there's something bigger than me" and I got told! Two angel fish came and swam around me. I cried and cried and cried, not only was I answered but it was a beautiful moment I shared with a higher power. My karmic lesson was that I mattered, that I served a purpose, that I can overcome anything with faith and that you might not always have an answer but you're being looked after.

I have feel that I have so much to learn from my soul circle, close friends as well as the new people I meet every other day on the same journey as myself. I could list all the lessons I have yet to learn but that would drag on for days. I think if anything profound comes, i'll blog about it on my online journal or along this course. For now, these are the lessons I've learned so far that have really resonated and enhanced my life and there is no doubt so much more to go.