Day 239 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - After a Peak Experience...

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Lesson 239: After a Peak Experience...

Peak experiences are sex, death, disaster and birth. By having these experiences, we are said to be open to connection through Oneness. We may find our spiritual openings start to awaken whether it’s through connection, energy and opening our third eye. You may not realise it at the time, but it’s really allowing you to be so much more than yourself. We may allow these flows of energy and spiritual to begin to take form in our lives though for some it may take time. Today we are to think about a peak experience eg/ near death experience, and think about what happened and if you haven’t had a peak experience, why do you think this is?

I don’t recall having any near death experiences. An extraordinary experience I would like to acknowledge is sky diving. For the two weeks leading up to that dive, I was anxious as hell. Even when I was in the plane about to jump out I was so nervous. I was to be the first person jumping of that plane with the group of randoms I was with. The reason why I feel that this would count as a peak or extraordinary experience is because even though there was some fear, I felt like the fall down was so freeing. It was as if I was floating downwards even though I was rapidly falling down and it was exhilarating at the same time. It really made you feel alive. It allowed me to just have an opening experience that I had never had before. For some reason as I was jumping out of the plane, all that anxiety just went away but it was also that I didn’t have a choice… I was first out and there was kind of no turning back. It’s one of those experiences I will never forget because of the way it made me feel. Somehow it really opened me up to want to try new things so in that regard I am really grateful. Maybe it was a start of something that I didn’t realise at the time.

What is something you can recall that really made an imprint on your experience of life?

Day 238 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Sex, Birth, Disaster, Death...

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Lesson 238: Sex, Birth, Disaster, Death...

“Sex, birth, disaster, death: these are all peak experiences, when you know you are really alive. These are times when heart of connection opens: you expand beyond yourself, into One.”

— Sara Wiseman

Today we are to think about a time we felt fully alive. Is there a way that you could incorporate that feeling into the day today?

I personally felt the most alive at the last gig I was at. Sometimes I like to close my eyes, sway to the music and let the music absorb into me. That’s a weird way of describing it, but that’s what I let it do. I didn’t just listen to the music, I allowed it to wash over me, infiltrate my body and allowed it to just be me. I think music is such a powerful tool in opening us up and allowing for experience to grow.

My Sunday consisted of just blogging, seeing a friend over afternoon tea and then having dinner with another friend whilst watching TV shows. I honestly didn’t allow any feelings of being open to be part of my day. I think if I wanted to, I would just place music on at home and dance around. I sometimes do this just to release and not worry. I think I do feel quite alive when I am dancing because the movements don’t have to be perfect and it’s all about flowing. I don’t really have set dance moves and just move to the music. It’s liberating in this way. I feel alive when I do this.

What can you think of that made you feel truly alive?