“The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our daily lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.” ~Marianne Williamson
The most important time in the world is the time you make for yourself.
When we dug out the rock another 2 boulders had to be removed. Causing a large hole to be present.
Do you ever feel like there is something missing in life?
The hole in your soul feels like a big emptiness. It is a lack of connection with others. Actually, it is a lack of connection with self. It often seeks approval, praise and recognition to prove you're good enough and worthwhile.
Research into Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study of over 17,400 college-educated employed Americans done by top medical doctors shows that over 50% of Americans have some form of childhood trauma and of these, a significant percentage suffer from food, alcohol, or other addictions.
Whether you know of it or not, most people suffer from an empty feeling perhaps condition best described as spiritual dis-ease. This description perhaps defines conditions such as alcoholism, anxiety, or depression than does the word disease, which may imply these conditions are of a physical nature.
People like to sweep their own spiritual dis-ease under the rug and try to not acknowledge feelings. They can become workaholics, alcoholics, sleepaholics, and can be addicted to food, develop dependencies to drugs or other negative behavioral traits like obsessive shopping. People often collect money to buy more things to make them happy.
People affected by such traits may go to the doctor to get pills to numb the symptoms of their dis-ease. Some people will try anything to dull the pain. Unless we address the source of the problem, however, it’s just a matter of time before people often repeat these self-defeating patterns of behavior.
ABC offers mindful and meditation short taster courses, in nature, in order to connect in nature take stock and replace the balance, in our case this weekend we filled our hole with smaller rocks and ballast/aggregate which has another meaning, the sum of all parts.
Research has shown that we can often die prematurely of both these primary and secondary addictions — the stress effects all of our lives collectively. It shows ACEs are the primary causes in the first place of heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and the other top ten causes of death in the U.S and in Europe this is no different.
Come and learn how to try to escape stressful situations by applying our basic meditation techniques and to help us with our conservation tasks at the farm and our ultimate goal of funding and building a treehouse for this beautiful place.