Experiences that changed your awareness

[Sue]

Have you ever had a day when ,you knew things were going to be stressful at work, and you had a million things to do, and all of the sudden while there is a minute of quiet time while you are driving into the "storm of the day" you get this undeniable surge of pure happiness for no reason and a smile comes across your face?

Yes! Not only on stressful days. There is sometimes a moment of an exceptional happy feeling. It might be when someone is sending me good wishes in thoughts. I try to send these thoughts out too hoping to bring that smile to a friend's day.

 

[Cheryl D.]

Self-awareness is something that comes slowly to the human animal - yes in the beginning we are all little self-centered animals and as time goes by, we grow and we learn...

This is tale telling well centered in that beginning world of my life.

I must have been 7 - 8 years old, maybe even a bit younger, but certainly at a stage of development that was reaching the self-awareness of myself and the world around me...

I do wonder it anyone ever had an epiphany such as this that registered in their mind. When the thought struck me it had a pondering significance that faded after a few hours. It was years later when the experience came back to me whilst sitting in a grassy field staring at the blue sky that I realized what an arrogant little creature I had been- through no fault of my own for no one ever thought or took the time to explain otherwise.

Well now that you are curious, I shall relate the event.

As I said I was somewhere between 7 - 8 years old. What I was doing in a school hallway at the time I do not remember. I was in the hallway walking back to class, There was a glass display case filled with a collection of items. What they were, I don't remember, they are of no significance. I noted some neatly propped cards describing some of the items and they had these strange dates attached.

"Hmm," my tiny mind pondered. "How could that be?"

"I was born in 19xx (you really don't want to know the exact year), how could there be anything before that?" I told you this was arrogant. "There was nothing before I was born. Didn't the world come into being on that day?"

"That is when time began," I continued to think. "Wait, maybe there was something before me. After all Mommy and Daddy had to come from somewhere."

So you see, all of creation appeared and evolved because I was born. Aren't you glad?

I have since disabused myself of that notion and I am sure those of you older than I are very glad. Those of you younger, aren't you glad I was born, so that you could be as well?

Ah the arrogance of innocent youth!

Myst

I was listening to my eldest grandson (now 7) who was trying to understand how the world existed before he arrived and also how I am his Mom's mom. He cannot grasp that his mom ws also a little person and his aunt also and that things happened before he arrived. Shortly after our little discussion, he went and sat under his favourite tree and, I do believe, pondered this matter. When he came back in, he hugged me and said: Gran, that is why you are so awfully wise - you have been alive forever.

That, I believe is the most wonderful thing that has ever been said to me because I have always believed that we, as the elders, are kept here to pass our wisdom on to the younger ones and these words reaffirmed this belief.

Blessings to all
Cheryl from S. Africa

 

[Mystery Mom]

Thak you Cheryl D

You have affirmed the mystery for me....


Self awareness reaches a maturing point somewhere around the age of seven... a point where we realize we are not immortal, nor the beginning, or the end of the cycle of life.

Yes we can have memories that go back before that age and they remain innocent. Since I never discussed this awakening with anyone else in my memory and the shocking realization has stuck with me for all these years, I have wondered if others went through the same, or very similar thought process.

Your grandson has moved through a very important ritual in his life and I think you were very fortunate to have shared that moment with him, and he very lucky to have such a patient and wise grandmother.

Thank you for sharing with us....

Myst