The Day I Became A Man
Yesterday started out with a rough nights sleep but turned out to be a day with a profound spiritual realisation. If I died yesterday I would have been a happy man.
These are the moments of rapture and awe that I live for.
Until yesterday, I had not been sleeping well for about a week, nightmares and restlessness.
It is as if my subconscious dream state was boiling with fear, much like the collective consciousness of humanity right now.
In my dreams, I have been confronted with some of my deepest fears, death of family, personal sexual violence, containment, bondage and suffering. These childhood fears were coming to the surface to be healed.
Some nights I was so deep in the experience I was crying in my sleep, a first. A cathartic experience, yet for me, it was just a dream. A harsh reality for so many else on the planet right now.
The self-enquiry that began over the following days centred on, what is it really I fear?
The answer. Loss....
THE RISKIEST LIFE CHOICE
I chose to live with the courage and confidence that everything will work out if I follow my heart.
Paving Your Own Way
Everything outside of you is a pathway to the divine within. Seeking balance within can come from taking a seemingly minuscule experience and folding it into yourself to build a pathway back to the Source.
In every moment a human being has the tools to enhance their human experience, visible and invisible.
For example, the act of breathing, while a seemingly basic principle is how our vessel is charged with life force energy, known as 'chi' or 'prana'. Developing an awareness of the breath and harnessing its vitality by breathing into the different chambers of the body, abstaining from breath, alternating the nostrils or burst breathing through the mouth are tools that can enhance the human experience dramatically.
On a metaphysical level, the fact that we are also breathing the same air as all of our ancestors, having been become transformed through the cycles of nature is profound. The same can be said for the water that is in our bodies. Water that came from our mother's...
