Post 1: Living Versus Existing
Are you walking the base of life or striving for the top?
Living Versus Existing.
Living vs Existing 17/09/19
When we realise that we are living in a universe of contrasting expressions we realise that our relationship to the day to day reality of existence will fall in between the two polarities of what we may call good vs bad, sad vs happy, high vs low, alive vs existing. As humans we can experience and feel the full gamut of emotions and what it means to be human. Most people are striving to feel happy, good, alive, to have meaning and purpose in their lives. We look to this to create a rich and full life experience. We prescribe the meaning to our lives.
But what does it mean to be fully alive as opposed to just merely existing? When people say they are bored, frustrated, tired with their daily lives, when life is mundane, ordinary and routine, lack lustre, what does this mean? It’s the drudgery of daily life that can often get the better of us and make us feel like we are merely existing, a slave to our jobs, the making of money to survive. There’s no more spontaneity, creative flow, optimism, and greater meaning and aliveness to our life as it gets distracted and buried with the day to day realities of surviving. Sound familiar? Are we merely slaves to the matrix and the societal structures of modern society?
Can you remember a time when you were “free” form this feeling of this imposition? A time when you believed in magic, all possibilities, in your dreams and ability to manifest and be who you were meant to be before life got in the way. A time when your heart and soul and mind were alignment with your purpose. A time when instead of seeing the negative in this world you decided to transcend it and reconnect to your creative ability to move and flow in the direction that best suited your soul purpose and journey. The ability to listen to your voice and not that of the mind programmes we are bombarded with.
What’s the answer? How do we become more alive, feel more alive, reconnect? What is the catalyst? These are questions we must all contemplate and ponder and allow to be answered by the guidance of our true authentic self. Know that within you as an expression of the universe you have the answers. Let them unfold, give yourself permission to take aliveness in whatever form that means to you as your top priority. Are we truly free? People talk about being a free spirit? I may not have all the answers but it has been my life quest to take that inward journey, to discover and then to share and hopefully inspire other people to truly awake, so that they may feel fully alive and not merely walk through this life existing.
Rob Ipsen