A digest for conscious living
Although I completed my Practice this morning and worked hard all day, Im not in the best of spirits tonight. Business is not going well and the truth be told, I have come to realize that I don’t really want to continue doing what I am doing for much longer. At this point I am leaving myself open to any opportunities that the Dream presents me, but what I would really like is to work with people on a meaningful level. My long term plan is to get re-educated in order to have the skills to go into a career where I could work with people and help them in some way- some sort of therapy or counseling, coaching, or spiritual guidance. Unfortunately, I have a family and financial responsibilites at the moment that (at least in my perception of reality) are preventing me from making this transition immediately. I simply have to do the best with what I have and try to accept and love what Is.
For me, one of the biggest distractions of the Spiritual Path is that I have become so sensitive to and aware of my circumstances and possibilities that it is easy to become dissatisfied with the reality of the world in which I live. When I think about the madness of the world, the mental illness which runs rampant in virtually the entire human population, it is easy to want to oppose it or rebel against it. I am well aware that I am not immune to this psychological affliction, which is clearly why I feel this way at all. I also know that the only way to effect any meaningful change on the world is to heal myself of this illness. By definition, this would require me to desist from opposing it. Seemingly this is a paradox, but I know that it is not by opposing something, but rather by embracing and integrating it that one rises above the paradox of judgement.
I propose that there is no true satisfaction to be had in life if I am not working somehow to help make the world a better place while at the same time accepting it and loving it for what it is right now. Because I believe that this Dreamscape is literally being created by the collective consciousness- the one subconscious mind which is continually creating everything and every person- I know that in order to change anything, I have to heal myself. True healing means loving myself unconditionally. Since on the deepest level we are all one, and Consciousness is shared by every human being, part of the process of loving myself is to also helping other people to love themselves as well.
The best way to treat any illness or disease of the body is to address it from both the physical and psychological/energetic level. In the same way, the best way to treat the diseases that plague the human psyche is to address my own healing and the healing of others in tandem.
Its not that I have some sort of Messiah complex, I just recognize that we are all interconnected, and there is no way for me or anyone to be completely free until every living creature is free with me. This is my motivation for wanting to change my career, and my life.
Universe!… Dreamer!… send me the means. Show me the Way!
“There is work to be done, so lets do it little by little…” -Bob Marley
Goodnight,
Kikta