February - Commitments
Hey Readers!
Hope you all are having lots of light and good times over the holidays! Life was full for me leading up to the Solstice, and I welcomed my social media break. Now, I'm back to sharing my previous year here. ;)
Last February was all about commitments & serenity in the heart of commitments. (I'm only going to discuss the commitments portion - I couldn't really think of a way to explain the serenity part without going into my specific commitments, and my personal sources of power - two things I really didn't want to share. So, you'll just have to trust me when I say to "find serenity within your commitments".)
Now, I'm not one that usually has trouble following through with external commitments - If I say I will do something, I will do it. Keeping commitments to myself however, is harder for me to do. As I said before, I'm a natural born caretaker, so I often push aside my own wants and needs for the wants and needs of others. Prior to 2017 starting I (and my partner) had decided to make the year a year of "No". Meaning, we had spent a few years saying "Yes!" to everything (which is great and good and awesome and we did and experienced so many things because of the power of "Yes", but we needed a year of saying "No".) So I said "No". Often. And I can absolutely say, the power of "No" works in amazing ways too. It really allowed us the time and space to devote to ourselves, and our creativity and crafts. We caught up on a lot of things, were able to handle a lot of new challenges, and we (mostly) recovered from a couple of very busy, good, and hard years. Saying no today, can mean you are able to say yes tomorrow.
At the beginning of the month I spent some good time reading the Anatomy of Desire - "How to be happy even when you don't get what you want." This is one that will stay on my shelf for a while! Here's a few notes I jotted down - take them as you may:
- The only reason you are not happy with something about yourself or your life is because you have told yourself a story about it, which is making you unhappy.
- To the ego, life is a struggle to survive and get to the top of the heap and stay there.
- Fear is an illusion spun by the ego to keep the desire game and the illusory world going.
- Dramatic change requires dramatic situations.
- We think we have to like something to accept it, but accepting something just means letting it be the way it already is.
I also read the Yoga Sutras of the Patanjali - all about the ego, our thoughts, and our perceptions. Breaks down the Yogic Path. Definitely recommend, this will also stay on my shelf for a while.
- "If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience yoga."
- The entire outside world is based on your thoughts and mental attitude. The entire world is your own projection.
- The moment you have resigned yourself completely, you have transcended your ego.
- Everything is relative - only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all our troubles. Uninterrupted discriminative discernment.
Creating on Purpose - was another book I read - all about liberation and manifestation and chakras and intentions and all that good stuff. Becoming an active participant in the creation of our reality! I decided to pass this one on when I was finished with it, but I have referred to my notes on it a couple of times, so I still recommend reading it - especially if you are a creative type.
I also loved the idea of this - deliberate daydreaming. I hadn't much allowed myself the time or space to daydream for a very long time! There are a number of reasons for this... but it was very stretching work to set aside time to practice daydreaming. Commitments!
How did my commitments go this year? Well, I absolutely committed to the Magic of Myth group and the work, and I absolutely saw results. You know those people that say something has changed their life, but you never really understand what they mean? This work changed my life. I don't expect anyone to really understand (E. says no one will believe my story, because it is unbelievable!), and it doesn't matter to me if anyone takes anything away from the blog that I'm writing here. Like I said in an earlier post, it's not up to me, and it doesn't really matter to me. But what I do know is that I am changed, and if you make commitments to yourself and keep them, amazing things happen.
On other tangible commitments? Well.... I did ok. I reached some goals I wanted to, others I almost reached. But it's ok. :) I still put in the effort. I didn't sit around and say "Why is this not happening?" And that is the important part. In comparison to the rest of my life, I was very good to myself this year, and I'm pretty proud of that.
There's a lot one could say about commitments.... I'll just leave you with the most important things I have learned: Know what you are committing to, commit to it from your center (your deepest awareness), and remember that "things take the time they take" (Mary Oliver again).
Love and Light ~K
Hope you all are having lots of light and good times over the holidays! Life was full for me leading up to the Solstice, and I welcomed my social media break. Now, I'm back to sharing my previous year here. ;)
Last February was all about commitments & serenity in the heart of commitments. (I'm only going to discuss the commitments portion - I couldn't really think of a way to explain the serenity part without going into my specific commitments, and my personal sources of power - two things I really didn't want to share. So, you'll just have to trust me when I say to "find serenity within your commitments".)
Now, I'm not one that usually has trouble following through with external commitments - If I say I will do something, I will do it. Keeping commitments to myself however, is harder for me to do. As I said before, I'm a natural born caretaker, so I often push aside my own wants and needs for the wants and needs of others. Prior to 2017 starting I (and my partner) had decided to make the year a year of "No". Meaning, we had spent a few years saying "Yes!" to everything (which is great and good and awesome and we did and experienced so many things because of the power of "Yes", but we needed a year of saying "No".) So I said "No". Often. And I can absolutely say, the power of "No" works in amazing ways too. It really allowed us the time and space to devote to ourselves, and our creativity and crafts. We caught up on a lot of things, were able to handle a lot of new challenges, and we (mostly) recovered from a couple of very busy, good, and hard years. Saying no today, can mean you are able to say yes tomorrow.
At the beginning of the month I spent some good time reading the Anatomy of Desire - "How to be happy even when you don't get what you want." This is one that will stay on my shelf for a while! Here's a few notes I jotted down - take them as you may:
- The only reason you are not happy with something about yourself or your life is because you have told yourself a story about it, which is making you unhappy.
- To the ego, life is a struggle to survive and get to the top of the heap and stay there.
- Fear is an illusion spun by the ego to keep the desire game and the illusory world going.
- Dramatic change requires dramatic situations.
- We think we have to like something to accept it, but accepting something just means letting it be the way it already is.
I also read the Yoga Sutras of the Patanjali - all about the ego, our thoughts, and our perceptions. Breaks down the Yogic Path. Definitely recommend, this will also stay on my shelf for a while.
- "If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience yoga."
- The entire outside world is based on your thoughts and mental attitude. The entire world is your own projection.
- The moment you have resigned yourself completely, you have transcended your ego.
- Everything is relative - only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all our troubles. Uninterrupted discriminative discernment.
Creating on Purpose - was another book I read - all about liberation and manifestation and chakras and intentions and all that good stuff. Becoming an active participant in the creation of our reality! I decided to pass this one on when I was finished with it, but I have referred to my notes on it a couple of times, so I still recommend reading it - especially if you are a creative type.
I also loved the idea of this - deliberate daydreaming. I hadn't much allowed myself the time or space to daydream for a very long time! There are a number of reasons for this... but it was very stretching work to set aside time to practice daydreaming. Commitments!
How did my commitments go this year? Well, I absolutely committed to the Magic of Myth group and the work, and I absolutely saw results. You know those people that say something has changed their life, but you never really understand what they mean? This work changed my life. I don't expect anyone to really understand (E. says no one will believe my story, because it is unbelievable!), and it doesn't matter to me if anyone takes anything away from the blog that I'm writing here. Like I said in an earlier post, it's not up to me, and it doesn't really matter to me. But what I do know is that I am changed, and if you make commitments to yourself and keep them, amazing things happen.
On other tangible commitments? Well.... I did ok. I reached some goals I wanted to, others I almost reached. But it's ok. :) I still put in the effort. I didn't sit around and say "Why is this not happening?" And that is the important part. In comparison to the rest of my life, I was very good to myself this year, and I'm pretty proud of that.
There's a lot one could say about commitments.... I'll just leave you with the most important things I have learned: Know what you are committing to, commit to it from your center (your deepest awareness), and remember that "things take the time they take" (Mary Oliver again).
Love and Light ~K
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