The Magic Of People

I've been reflecting on the different experiences throughout my life, and ive realized a common theme among these experiences.  My happiness and contentment is never determined by the external world, but the connection I have with myself, and most importantly the people around me.

In Hawaii, my life on the outside was perfect.  I parked my van on a friend's driveway right next to his giant food forest jungle (that I could eat anything I wanted from!).  I worked a great job at a local organic farm/ cafe.  On my days off I would swim in waterfalls, surf in the ocean, and eat tons of fruit.  My cost of living was very minimal, and from many peoples perspectives, my life was pretty perfect.  

But i was alone… and confused… and wasn't internally balanced in my body.  I had a couple of friends but I wasn't really connecting with them on a deeper level.

Then I think back to the semesters I spent living in the basement of a church in my college town.  There were about 20 others who lived there as well.   I shared a tiny 10 ft by 10 ft room with a beautiful lady named Milanna.  The rooms were cheap, about 250$ a month.  Our room had a tiny window that looked out to the wall of another building.  A really funny old man named Pastor Tim managed these rooms.  This is actually when I started sleeping on the floor because we wanted more space in our room for dancing and yoga.  

Me, Milanna, and another friend that lived down the hall would all lay there every night on the floor telling stories about our life, our dreams, and deepest thoughts.

I lived in the church during the winter months, and it seemed like everyday was dark, rainy, and cold.  But that didn't matter. We spent nights together laughing, making music, running around in the rain, and just being ourselves.  I felt a sense of freedom around these people, because i showed them my honest authentic self, and they accepted me for who i was.  They allowed me to grow, and evolve as a human.

I was poor, and living in a very run down area. 

Externally my life was not very beautiful.  

But it didn't matter, because I was connected to myself, and the people around me.

So here's what i've realized.  When we are listening to our intuition, life will bring us to experience the things that are most helpful for the evolution of our consciousness.  In many ways, everyone in our life is like a teacher.  Put there to allow us to grow, change, evolve.  

I started my yoga practice again in Hawaii, and began doing a lot of self study.  And then a quiet little voice in my head was there to tell me I needed to leave.  I believe this was my intuition knowing that there were other life lessons and people that i had to cross paths with, and that my time on the island was over.  

When we are stagnant, and not evolving, it doesn't matter how beautiful our life is on the outside.  Deep down we are empty. 

Deep down we are empty.

So instead of focusing on the material world and how we can improve our life through external things, lets start to focus on the connection we have with the people around us.  Together, lets begin to slowly step away from the distractions of modern life, and go internal.  Connecting with our own truth, and intuition, so we can begin to do what we came here to do on this earth: to allow our consciousness to evolve and grow.