Growth

Dear All

I have been immersing myself in many books this past year, all to do with personal development, psychology and philosophy. This is my forte, and where the basis of all my interests lie. I am always eager to learn and understand how people work, how the universe works, how we can achieve and enjoy life to its fullest and how to help individuals reach their full potential.

For me, my life’s experiences coupled with the knowledge gained from books read and conversations had, are all helping me in the great discovery of life. This not only helps me in the understanding of knowing and understanding myself intimately but also being able to understand the workings of the human race and ultimately how to help and reach out to others.

I do not presume to be a mind reader, nor am I a qualified Psychologist, yet I find that the more I work on myself and begin to understand myself, the more I open up myself to the many possibilities the universe and God has to offer. The more I connect with this one true source and with who I am, is the more I am beginning to understand this world on a much greater basis.

I have grown so much over the past year. My journey has been an incredible one and now I am on such a spiritual level that when I am being led or guided, 95% of the time I am right with any decisions I make.

I have been going through some incredible spiritual changes, changes that have actually left me operating on another dimension, leaving me with a sharper sense of knowing, a clearer sense of who I am, of people and circumstances around me. I am now operating at a level where I am reading people, being able to see and know what is going on inside of them, knowing when things are going to happen, and knowing what to do.

Of the extraordinary experiences I have had was one where I picked up what someone else was thinking and even to the point of visualising an individual they were thinking about, describing that person in detail. I say no more on that part other than, so many of us are operating on a fraction of the possibilities that we could be more. So many of us will never be able to fathom how powerful we really are as human beings and the source of energy and abundance that God has provided us which is seated within us.

We are incredible human beings – every single one of us. Yet what I realise and always advocate is that there will be some of us who want to build empires and know what must be done to achieve this. There will be others, who are quite comfortable just reaching for the stars, not quite wanting to get there, but just wanting to dream it. Then there are those who are happy and content being where they are and this is all ok. Whatever you want in life, is yours for the taking. Whatever status you wish to hold, whatever path you want to take, however high you want to climb that mountain – you hold the keys to your destiny. Your destiny may be to be a listener, a carer, a role model, a wonderful friend to the homeless. Your destiny may be to start a campaign making people stand up and take note of something important and life threatening. Your destiny may be that of being another Dr Martin Luther King. Whatever it is, that is your piece of treasure to hold onto and cherish and work towards and remember – it doesn’t matter what status you have or how many certificates or letters you have after your name – being someone is not about materialistic status, being someone is being who you are and loving what you do and operating on a level of honesty, integrity, respect and love.

Yet, what I have realised on this journey is that being in a deeply spiritual place where one is in alignment with God, where one is in alignment with oneself on an intimate and knowing level, is a very very powerful place to be. I sense this power within me and believe me, I will have to use it wisely.

Through meditation which I do everyday now – I am able to shut myself off from the outside world and just be, in the silence or in the midst of meditative music, just be. I am therefore afforded the luxury of enjoying a calmness and peace that settles over me as I just be, releasing myself momentarily from the treadmill of life. This time also gives me the space to reflect, to delve inside myself to find answers and the ramblings of my mind – getting rid of any anxieties or negative tendencies.

On that note therefore, I would like to leave you with these wonderful quotes:

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”
- Saint Thomas Aquinas


“For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
- I Corinthians 13: 12-13

“Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.”
- Sir J. Stephen