Well, if you're reading this, I guess I've managed to keep this going for one more week!
Black ink in this journal often indicates some sort of reflection or waking memory. I remember this period in my life as a time of great tranquility and peace...the skies seemed to come alive every day, just for me. I remember living in this reality for a long season, basically up until I assumed it was my new reality forever.
At some point, I fell back down from the blissful heights of mindful peace, back to the trials, tribulations and outright troubles of regular human life...I guess I couldn't remain unaffected forever. But I brought back with me a deep inner peace. I learned how to tap that meditative mindset through conscious breathing, so I could always revisit paradise, even while conducting day to day activities. All it takes, is consciously setting everything else aside.
I know, that either sounds either like a load of bullshit or just impossible to do, but once you've learned to do this simple thing, all the answers you need come to you at your own behest. What to say next, what note to play next, where to go or what to do, the answers are always within reach, from a place deeper than the realm of intelligence...from the realm of the soul, or the intuition.
This same appreciation I was living in allowed me to gaze upon individual blades of grass, and the life that rested on them. It led to dreams of exploring wilderness as a part of it, and of flying beings made of rainbow tinted light energy.
I've noticed a difference in the quality of my dreams based on the quality of how I'm choosing to live my life, but you know, it's not just that simple. Because you see, I've also lived through the experience of watching my life spin back towards turmoil and chaos because of the dreams I was having.
I believe that's somewhat aligned with what the Buddhists call "interdependent and co-arising," though I admit, I may have missed the point there. But my quality of life depends on my dreams, and the quality of my dreams is likewise dependent on how I'm choosing to live my life. When intellect serves intuition dutifully, I am at peace, I am whole.
Why then, do I seem to go through cycles of coming in and out of higher consciousness? Ebb and flow, I suppose. A rose bush can't stay in bloom all year. Falling out of consciousness then, may be as much of a gift as rising up to its dizzying heights! Because all we can know, we can only know by way of comparison and contrast.
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Well, I am reading this and have to say, I hope you will keep going for more than one or two {or more} weeks :) How cool!! I already checked a bit your previous posts on this topic. Wow... is it a too simple reaction? hahaha.. But, I am amazed with what I read from your post and from the content form your journal, but there it is a bit hard to read from {interesting handwriting btw}
Hm, yes. However, not easy to achieve always, at least when we block ourselves with futile thoughts, or destructive ones that sometimes come... When we let ourselves be guided by - quoting your words- blissful heights of mindful peace then everything is different :) And you are right, a rose bush can not bloom all year and the same with the quality of our life (dreams, thoughts, feelings and all that comes out from them). Even then, we have to be grateful for the non-blooming period, and take care of the rose bush, and then I am sure we can have plenty of great moments in that period too.
I don’t know how to do those cool quote bars, I’ve got to figure that out. Perhaps part of the challenge is that I don’t have a computer so I do all my posting from a phone :)
Yes! Points awarded to you for being the first to catch it - all entries in the journal are written upside-down and backwards :) When I was a kid, my dad showed me a copy of DaVinci’s journal. He explained how you had to use a mirror to read the handwriting and I knew right then I needed to learn how to write like that - so I created some easy exercises to learn the skill, but never had much of a use for it until I started dream journalling!
I’ve considered putting together a short tutorial to teach people how to write like this, but so far haven’t done anything with that as I’m not so sure it’s something many would find useful or interesting. But it does make your writing look cool and mysterious! :)
I agree, our connection to what I generally call the intuition (intuition = the higher self, the soul, the silence, the great void, God, etc, & intellect is the term I use for ego, the lower self, etc.) can be fickle, and even comes and goes in waves. I think the important thing is not to hide from the world in a peaceful sanctuary, but to be in it, among all the madness. This always requires a balance between intuition and intellect, but it’s so easy to get pulled into the world of folly, letting the intellect take charge again. It happens to me in phases, but I am always at peace when intellect is subservient to intuition, though this does require an “audible” connection to silence…if that makes any sense lol!
Ok, so from the phone (or same from a computer) you can use this sign to quote the part or the post or sentence you want.
Yeah, I saw it is somehow reverse, or backwards haha, but couldn't explain. So kind of a mirror writing ... Cool 😎
Tutorials! Why not? You see, you have already one who would sign up for the lessons 😁
Balance, balance! So important! Also, always trying to reach it, failing most of the time I think 😂
P.S.
Check my latest post if you want...more about silence in music, but when you said silence... :)
Thanks for showing me how to do that!!
I’ll check it out now, I’ve really been enjoying your posts in general so I know it won’t disappoint :)
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This is a beautiful post, and your journal's gorgeous! I too keep a dream journal and also see dreams as inherent parts of my daily life. I've also experienced the ebb and flow of awareness that you mention. You have a wonderful way of expressing the exploration of your consciousness, glad I found this post and your profile! Blessings to you!
Thanks! It always amazes me to see how similarly we all experience dips into the mystic…it’s certainly not a requirement, but having these common experiences does help show us that these things run deeper and mean more than the popular consensus would indicate!
I’m glad you found me to, I’d love to hear about your dream experiences as well :)
Yes, this dual reality where we evolve through the comparison of opposites, is built as a colossal and profound narrative which we all experience similarly, despite our differences and unique points of view. This is one reason why I'm always glad to find more people engaged in the quest of mysticism and self-discovery because I can learn vicariously from their lives too! I've written quite a bit about my dreams and visions here, feel free to peruse my blog, I'll do the same with yours!