Awaken your innermost desires!

The digital age is without doubt the age of distraction. Never before has the competition for your mind space been greater or the distribution channels more sophisticated.
Whether you are conscious of it or not, the media, governments, advertisers, your friends, your family, or even strangers passing in the street, are all vying for a piece of your mind space. The sad reality is, that most of us just hand it over unconsciously.

When we don’t take ownership of our own mind space, we end up living out the desires of others. We become empty vessels living and reliving a mismatch of our conditioning, circumstance and passed experiences.
The good news is that you can stem the relentless tide of this meaningless distraction by consciously awakening your own innermost desires.

Your innermost desires.

Take a moment to turn the clock forward to your last breath. A smile is beautifully etched into the contours of your face because you have lived a life full of creative self-expression.
In that moment think about the events of your life that you are most grateful for. Reflect on the amazing things that you have achieved, created, expressed or experienced over your lifetime. Fully associate yourself into that feeling space, not in an intellectual way but in an emotional way.

Once you have captured the intensity of that moment, take out a piece of pen and paper and start writing down all the things that entered your mind. This is a list of your inner most desires.
The uncomfortable realisation.

When people start to become conscious of their inner most desires, what typically follows is the uncomfortable realisation that they don’t yet have what they want.
In fact, this awareness can be so painful, that many people seek relief through meaningless avoidance techniques and addiction.

What many people don’t realise is that the space of not yet having what you want is golden. As strange as it may seem, this is where your creative life force resides.
Think about it, if you already had everything you wanted there would be nothing stirring you to do anything!

Pain is a vitamin.

Adam, one of my best mates from high school, would often quip (in his best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice) ‘pain is a vitamin’. Now although there were times when I didn’t particularly enjoy being on the receiving end of that advice, deep down I knew that he was right.
Pain is a compelling motivating force. Rather than taking measures to avoid it, first embrace it and then transform it.

Channel the raw energy.

Gather up the raw energy and emotion that the pain of not having what you want creates and start focusing it into the direction of your dreams. Cast aside your fears and any thoughts of lack or limitation. Spend all your efforts energising the manifestation of what you truly desire.
You are living in the most exciting time ever in the evolution of human kind, but please don’t allow this age of choice to become an endless distraction for you. Instead focus your intentions on fully living and expressing your innermost desires and celebrate the expansiveness that these possibilities create.