Wouldn't it be great if we could shut off from the 'real' world and devote our life to God, consciousness, meditation...Then we'd be zen! Easy peasy! or not... I had this thought process this week and I called BS on it, listen to find out why
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Hello and welcome to the Radiant Soul Podcast and your weekly Dose of Soul Shots. These are five minute episodes that give your soul a quick pick me up when it needs it, because you are a beautiful, radiant soul and sometimes you just need a reminder.
Hi, welcome to the Radiant Soul Podcast, and today I've got a doozy one for you,
So I'm lying in bed at last. And my son is 14. I'm just gonna set some backstory here. He's just turned 14 and like all 14 year olds, he is wonderful, beautiful, full of energy, full of life. Thinks he knows everything, and totally not doing what I want him to do. That's just some backstory. Right?
And also I was just in this head space and I'm at home and I had a really tiring day and I'd been at loggerheads with my son for a couple of days over the need to do homework and like really, you know, trying to sort of train him to understand that. Now he's in secondary two, he really actually does need to do the homework and he's, he'd previously been in schools where the expectations of the children were very low.
So it's a whole new dynamic this year. Right? He's now in a school where it's, there's much more expectation on the kids, and I'm also putting a bit more expectation on him, and I'm lying in bed last night and I'm just sort of feeling into the fact that like, as a parent, I'm not showing up as I wanted to and it's, and I felt like it was stopping my spiritual growth and I was feeling all this resistance and feeling all this like, uuuuughh gosh.
And I was thinking of like this person I follow who's a spiritual teacher and I followed him for years and he purposely chose never to have children and purposely chose to probably, I think, stay out of most romantic relationships or certainly in his late years and he goes off into, you know, what he calls his retreats where he'll go and like sit in a dark room for 30 days and people will bring him food and he doesn't, you know, he has no interaction with the outside world and he basically lives a life like Jesus, right?
He has his, his followers, his main group of very good friends who do the same stuff and it's almost like the disciples. And they go and party hard and they, and they pray and they meditate and they do all of the spiritual work together. And it sounds. Bliss, Right? It sounds idyllic.
And so I'm lying in bed last night and I'm thinking of this and I'm thinking, Oh my God, I would love to just go and sit in the mountains and meditate all day long and, and, you know, devote my life to God, devote my life to spirituality. Wouldn't that be great?
Because all of this stuff, like living with my partner and like, you know, having bickers over day-to-day chores or whatever, or arguing with my son over his homework, all of these day-to-day things like having to feed my cat and being woken up by my cat all night long, all of these things are stopping me being spiritual. And they're stopping me being this amazing spiritual being that I know I could be.
This is my thought process.
And I immediately called bullshit on it, right? I immediately said, Hang on a minute, . Uh, that's like absolutely the wrong answer because really what's more spiritual? Right? And, where does our soul grow more and evolve more than in our interactions with other people, in our relationships, in those difficult relationships or those difficult times where we are triggered. What we want to control or what we believe or what we want to keep reinforcing as a story in ourself, is pushed. Right? It's pushed and it triggers us and it makes us mad, right? It makes us go, you know, see red because it's, it's like we've lost that control or we've lost that ability to control that thing. And we really wanna, and, and like this is where we grow.
This is where our spiritual evolution happens and begins. And so there is no sitting in a cave meditating all day and night. I mean, my partner even said, you know, why would you wanna go sit in a cold damp cave? Like I would just . He says, You're always cold. You'd hate it. agreed. You know, But, This is just the journey, right?
And so actually we can be more of our spiritual selves, we can be more enlightened, we can be more conscious as individuals if we work with what we've got, We work with the true nature of life in front of us. In all its grittiness, in all its annoyance, in all its things that like irritate us and bug us and trigger us, and, and you grind at our consciousness and our nerves, like all of those things is where we get to expand, we get to grow, we get to be more of who we are.
I'm gonna keep that short actually as a little Soul Shots!. Um, thank you for listening. Have a great week, Bye!