What is your first memory? Do you remember your first gift? Can you recall the images, emotions and feelings from that time?
I recall my dad buying 2 budgies or tiny parrots as I used to call them, one blue and one green. They would always let you know they were there and you would never feel alone. There was these living beings that would chirp, dance and move about before resting again. Their presence just felt comfortable. I never thought about what I would like to be when I grew up, I was too busy with the many distractions of life. Most were fun, joyful and happy whilst some were not.
Here I am now, a Science and Mathematics Teacher, with a post degree qualification in the 5000+ healing modality that is Ayurveda. An unexpected journey from university physiology degree to a good stint as a Civil Servant and then as a School Teacher for the last 20 years.
I have had many Spiritual Teachers, famous and known to the unknown ones where just a conversation would throw light onto a problem and solve it, sometimes effortlessly.
Perhaps, like myself, you too feel the need to understand life from a different perspective rather than that presented to us every day through our physical senses? A sense of dissatisfaction and frustration are an impetus to search for a deeper meaning and something new.
What is your Spiritual Journey? Why do you need it? Why not just live life as you have always done? These answers will be unique to you and sometimes the mirror-like effect of daily life will make things obvious as long as you honestly see things as they really are.
My journey and becoming awake to a spiritual journey started at university as frustration, fear and dissatisfaction with life as I was experiencing it, made me search for answers. Overwhelming emotions to life’s situations and then unshakeable feelings of being on a ‘hamster wheel’ with repeating scenarios like the movie ‘Groundhog day’fueled my desire and search for meaning.
Can you relate to this? Have you experienced circumstances and experiences that have brought out similar emotions and feelings within you from your own life?
From my own experiences I now have the steady belief that we all need ‘a little shake-up’out of life’s comfort zones or we just don’t move, grow or change.
Before you read the next part, I invite you to temporarily suspend the way you normally see this world and be open to unusual ideas and insights.
I found myself drawn to books and Teachers that helped me understand that this very moment, where you are right now as you read this, there is a living force known by many names. This living present force permeates everything around us including ‘us’. So how do we understand this statement? Imagine you have an energetic holographic field extending beyond the physical body you see in the mirror.
See that ‘your’extended energetic body field is ‘blurred’ at the edges and blends or merges into the great universal field that is infinite in its nature. So imagine that we are in constant communication with this universal, conscious and living field. Perhaps you already know this or perhaps this notion feels uncomfortable or wrong to you?
Its another perspective on understanding our connection with nature and universal consciousness. I found that this insight empowered me to take greater personal responsibility for my daily life and give up being a helpless victim to changing circumstances and experiences. Honestly, at first, I felt more comfortable just wanting to stay in a ‘stance’where I could blame others for my own unhappy experiences. Still life insisted I ‘wake up’and each wake up call got louder until I did something about it. Have you yourself found this in your own life?
So my journey started and it started with a promise, a resolve to start seeing more in myself and see this life, my life, in a more sacred way. This came about by acknowledging that dreaded topic, death, was going to be a constant companion on this journey.
What is my Spiritual Journey? It’s a growing devotion to grow, to find peace, to find acceptance, to exercise courage more, to draw out more potential from within me, to find more joy and contentment in the ‘small graces’of every day life and to acknowledge the awe and beauty of just taking a breath to admire the view.
My question to you. What is your Spiritual Journey?