People always ask me the same question – what started me on this journey of spiritual awakening, and self-actualization? There are many answers to it, of course. I sometimes feel like I have been on this journey forever and ever, and it’s a never-ending path that I will be on for a long time to come. Past lives and future …
I think human beings are optimistic creatures, almost to a fault. We get excited about something, and we work on it, believing that everything is going to turn out perfectly, without any effort, or with very little effort, time, and money invested. In this article, I speak about the relation between optimism and realism.
I am a creative person, and before I started doing improv as a hobby, I used to imagine that the more complicated you make something, the better it is. But I learned that simplicity is actually the key. Let me tell you more.
Emerson says: “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Happiness explained in one easy quotable sentence!
In the past, I used to believe that the rigidity of my opinions makes me a strong person. I imagined that I was mentally weak if I changed my opinion hither and thither based on passing fancy.
When I was younger, in my teens, or twenties, I used to believe that napping is a huge waste of time. I used to look at a sign of weakness. If I couldn’t get through the long days without sleeping, then that meant that I wasn’t strong enough to live in the real world.
When I was in my twenties, I thought I knew everything. Like a typical young know-it-all, I thought I had discovered the secrets to the world. In my opinion, everyone around me was foolish, and I was the only smart one holding the answer key to life’s questions. All-knowing!
Your competition isn’t other people. Your competition is your procrastination. Ego. The unhealthy food you are consuming, the knowledge you neglect. The negative behavior you are nurturing & your lack of creativity. Compete against that. – Jade Jackson WSBT.
Recently, I have started taking part in a lot of varied healing modalities. This means that I am spending a lot of my free time, either recovering from some kind of physical or spiritual pain or integrating the messages from the universe and the lessons learned. Self-care has become an absolute priority for me. Because without knowing how far I …