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Over the years and challenges I did a lot of soul searching... a lot! I discovered something profound. After chanting for days in search of my essential self, between the extreme meditation experiments requiring 6 + hours a day in deep intense nothingness, while studying the religious practices of our world, I discovered that I don’ t believe we are here in this human experience just to overcome our human-ness.
Enlightenment isn’ t to see how disciplined we can be in overcoming being human. To see how much we can do without. To deny ourselves pleasure and joy and the beauty of the human experience. I am not here to restrict myself to tight rigid boxes of identity and conforming beliefs that limit my ability to create and express my loving self. I realized that instead I am here to enjoy the fullness, the richness and the radiant vitality of being human as a spiritual Being. Full on senses, locked, loaded, and fully engaged in the present moment and following my desires for the full meal deal!
And you know what? This awareness changed e v e r y t h i n g for me. I mean EVERYTHING!
I started getting in touch with what would please me rather than focusing on pleasing others. I focused on developing what I wanted to be doing, rather than what others thought I should be doing. I said YES! to my own desires. I learned how to create my own time. I started showing up. Guess what happened? I started feeling alive! I felt free. Free from what? I didn’ t totally know, I just knew that my happiness meter was at an all time high and became sustainable. Yes, SUSTAINABLE!
Aspire Magazine welcomes Marianne MacKenzie as an Expert Columnist
Marianne MacKenzie is a sought-after life and business coach who supports business women in living a Radically Engaged Life™. She is passionate, with a capital“ P”, about supporting you as you step into your power as a Radically Engaged Woman™ to live and work with deeper meaning and purpose, develop a new mindset that supports your desires and create practices and tools to sustain your new lifestyle so you can play even bigger in business and life.
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