The Power of the Meditative Process and Practical Changes to Life
Stalking Discord Servers
I was meditating a few days ago, contemplating about life and existence, when somehow my thoughts turned to goals. I was reading conversations on the #hiveph Discord server earlier, so I know that the thoughts did not pop out of nowhere as it normally comes from a personal experience.
I lingered on this theme for a while and had a personal realization that my goals have been too "ordinary". And by that I meant that my goals are already my current reality, which is to say that I am already capable of easily reaching, achieving and even surpassing them.
Lightbulb Moment
This is a significant realization for me. One, because it is telling me that I have been setting the bar too low all of my life (except for that time I was choosing a life partner. wink... wink...). And two, because I now possess the capacity to change my outlook in life at a fundamental, basic level.
As an example, I have a goal of creating passive income that will cover basic living expenses and a small contingency fund for emergency situations, but looking at it now, it is already a reality. This might be relevant when I was a young lad fresh out of university but now, looking at the goal, I am almost certain that this is already a reality. Or, is it?
We Cannot Manage What We cannot Measure
Even if I have not completed "documenting" my financial reality (thanks Excel!), but it's not difficult to believe that this is already a reality and that I have not recalibrated my goals for a long, long time...
Now, even if I had not completed the process of documenting my finances, I have already taken the decision to change my passive income goal to be able to have that option to retire comfortably and focus on crypto, meditation, cooking and serving vegetarian food, learning a new language and spending quality time with loved ones.
This change in worldview had already changed the way I think and approach projects and activities that I plan to engage in; shifting to higher profit passive income goals that are beyond my current reality but not impossible to reach.
Meditation is Both Practical and Spiritual
If you have been reading my blogposts, I upload content centered around the following themes: meditative life, #vegan / vegetarian food, finances, Filipino culture and "others". Having the capacity to use insight gained from one part of my life to improve myself is a blessing.
Slow change...It might take a few weeks or months to see the extent of this newfound paradigm shift
Being an ordinary, easy-going dude, I am comfortable with my life. I already have what I need to survive: a roof over my head, food and clothing, good friends - both online and offline - that I keep close by, a loving and supportive family, dogs, a few investments here and there, and a budding spiritual life.
Ramblings Make for a Long Post. LOL
Jumping to another theme, I was looking at the process of how this plays out in my mind and find it fascinating. The process I went through in this experience is roughly this: spark, realization, contemplation, reasoning, investigation, analysis and conclusion, decision, verbalizing, creating a blog post, publishing and getting feedback.
It's interesting to be an observant in the process of digging deep into one's inner processes. It's me, looking at myself, from the outside looking in. Now, who is doing the looking and who am I looking at is another blogpost altogether. But for now, I am happy at my newly calibrated financial goals and looking forward to venturing into the wonderful world of early retirement.
That's it for now. I edited out a big part of this post for brevity already but feel that it is still too long. Please tell me what you think about it? It will really help improve the quality of my posts and reduce the misery of Hiveans who read through 'till the end before making a comment.
Thanks and have a great day ahead! Mabuhay.
Shoutout to @bearone for the beautiful #hiveph badge. Made the thumbnail image on canva.com so shoutout to them as well.
It's great that you have been achieving all that your goals, to me, that means you are on the right path. Our thoughts are very powerful, as are the words we use, what we put out into the world does tend to come back to us. There really is a lot to be send for positive thinking and eating and living consciously. This was a lovely post to read xx
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Glad you liked my post @trucklife-family and thanks for the curation. It's a blessing to have good opportunities thrown at you by the universe. I just need to become better at managing projects. Have a great day and keep safe!
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@juanvegetarian you said it all when: spark, realization, contemplation, reasoning, investigation, analysis and conclusion, decision, verbalizing, creating a blog post, publishing and getting feedback. thank you for this insight:)
Just documenting what I observe is happening. :) Thanks for dropping by @divinebeingness. Have a wonderful day to you. Keep safe!