The Loneliness of Personal GrowthWritten by Skye Thomas
The cream rises to top. That means that it separates itself from milk. Perhaps that is what New Age Movement is really all about. We tell ourselves that it's lonely at top. Yes, it is. Maybe we have to figure out how to maintain ourselves as cream, but also stay whipped up within milk? I'm picturing some sort of luscious desert all decadent and wonderful... like hot cocoa with marshmallows stirred in rather than just floating on top. But then marshmallow is no longer a unique wonderful treat, it's been broken down into masses and lost it's integrity. It's a different lesson that comes into play after you've experienced a decent bit of enlightenment and growth.Look at kid who grows up poor. He travels along his journey and decides to change what he is experiencing. So, as he moves through life, he makes a conscious effort to enlighten himself about how to create an abundant lifestyle. He eventually accomplishes his goals and has a wonderful house, cars, money to vacation with his wife and children. His kids won't have to work so hard. He has their college money stashed away right alongside of his retirement fund. He is abundant, successful, and rich. What are chances that friends he grew up with are still around? Not very good. Most people who experience fulfillment of choosing to succeed in that area end up having to leave their friends behind. Often family members will get upset and shun them too. He is treated like some sort of a bad person for having succeeded while his peers failed. Eventually he has to find new friends and maybe even new family. It's no different with political enlightenment, spiritual enlightenment, or even becoming enlightened about relating to each other. The more mentally healthy you become, more spiritual, more balanced, more wealthy, more global you become... more alone you may feel. Often, we find ourselves unable to find those other rare individuals who are choosing same path as ours. The path of sloppy and lazy is full of other people to meet and talk to. The path of whiners is full. The path of being safe, generic, and boring is so crowded you almost cannot even move forward. Isn't that why you left that path? You had a need to move forward, a need for some elbowroom, a need to spread your arms wide, a need to be seen as special, unique, different. The masses may admire you, but they are not going to be able to really relate to you. You will be alone much of time. The best thing that has happened to those of us on this particular path is Internet. The planet just got a whole lot smaller and we can find our colleagues. The percentages of us versus them have not changed. We are still in minority, but at least we can find each other and encourage each other to hold strong. Knowing that there are others out there who are just like us makes it easier to hold our heads up high, throw our shoulders back, and say loud and clear, "I am what I am and I am not ashamed and I will not hide anymore." This holds true whether you are standing up proud to be a Christian, or Gay, or New Age, or amassing wealth, or raising your kids to be more than just disgruntled employees. When you become enlightened in some area, it is wonderful to find out that you are not alone, and through Internet, you can find cheerleaders.
| | I want to create...........Written by graham and julie
What would you like to create? A peaceful life, a successful life, a good life, a sculpture, a piece of art, a book? What is it that you would like to create? Whatever you want you can achieve it. All you have to do is follow your natural compass. Remove rubbish that takes you off course and let natural you come through. It is not case of adding new behaviours to create what you want. No. It’s a case of moving obstacles out of away and let natural you come through.One of biggest obstacles of all to being creative in life, to reaching your potential: is conformity. As Shakti Gawain says: ‘We will discover nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other peoples model’. Just think for a moment. How much do you conform? The world of work wants you to conform more and more. The computerisation of systems has taken away creativity of individuals and made you conform. Individual creativity of employees has almost disappeared in favour of conformity. The clothes you wear. Isn’t there a strong push to get you to be similar if not same as everyone else. The food you eat. Don’t you feel that you are being told what to eat and where you ought to eat it. Which restaurants are fashionable, which food is good for you. What supplements you ‘ought’ to take. So its not surprising therefore that in our family lives and our lives in general we have become slaves to conformity. The habit and behaviour of conformity, wanting to be same, is stopping you from touching your creativity. To reach your true potential, to open up your creativity you must start by having: Trust in yourself. Having trust in yourself is about listening to real you, your feelings, your heart and becoming person you really are capable of becoming. The you, who has been hidden for years and would really like to show world how good you are. Now, what are first thoughts that come into your mind to stop you achieving this aim and objective? Often first thing that stops you having power over your day to day behaviour is one who sits on your shoulder or voice inside your head that constantly nags like a oppressive parent. It’s whole aim is to sabotage your efforts. To destroy your self esteem.
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