Enlightenment

When I started a yoga teacher training program I struggled with what enlightenment meant, I realized that enlightenment can mean different things for each individual. 

Enlightenment is not one  singular thing. I can only describe what enlightenment is for me and how I believe or think enlightenment is. I believe that enlightenment is not necessarily something that is achieved, but rather a fulfillment of life that creates an openness within oneself. 

Wisdom

Enlightenment is something that one aspires to be, gaining wisdom and learning what is possible within our own selves. 

For myself, I had to really think about enlightenment and what it is for myself. Enlightenment is about finding a balance with my mind, soul and body. 

Enlightenment is about listening to all of these parts in my life to better understand and balance life to what I am wanting and seeking for my life. 

Life

Such as when I went back to school to receive a diploma in Social Work. It was not that just one day, I said eureka, I want to go back to school. It started with a family trauma, and having to deal with and manage family’s upheavals and sadness. 

After seeing and being told that I represent a calming way of dealing with this that I decided that helping people was what I needed and wanted to do. It may not be simply one thing, but several different things to make a difference within yourself. 

Be it  Vancouver, Bali, Thailand, Toronto, Hawaii, New Zealand, Sydney, Calgary, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, enlightenment is about finding a personal reason or passion that accommodates mind, body and soul. It is about finding for each individual a passion, and working to make that passion a reality. 

Thinking

With thinking about what enlightenment is for me, it is about a feeling of what drives me, what I can do for myself, and what I need to do in order to keep myself in the present, with my mind, body and soul. 

I believe that wanting to help others as well as myself through learning, through wanting to help others find themselves with a stronger mind, healthier soul and happier in their own skin is really what I aspire to. 

I see through my own enlightenment that wanting to teach yoga, and become an intuitive life coach is what will help make me the person I want to attain by following my mind, soul and body. 

Density

Is not that I am following a destiny, but I believe something has been reaching out to me, to show me what I should be doing in my life. I feel a desire to help others, and know that is my passion and where my life course seems to have always wanted to take me. 

It took a long time to really listen to what my mind, body and soul were telling me in my dreams, my surroundings and what I envisioned. It is now becoming my reality because I am letting it lead me and no longer fighting and just being guided to the possibilities, and open doors. I finally feel as though I am following a path that was and is opened for me.