This weeks mediation was to imagine someone with integral health and flourishing that can mentor you and to envision that person with beams of light coming from them toward you. You were to imagine that you are them and find what they have within them you can have within yourself.
I couldn't think of anyone in particular that could mentor me with this this exercise so I just thought of a general person with what I think wholeness, happiness and health will have been attained by someone. To continue to work on human flourishing its very important to live in the moment and find happiness from within. True happiness doesn't come from others or material things.
The saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" means that to teach someone or guide someone into something they need to have been able to accomplish themselves. They also need to be able to tell someone the tools that are needed to truly bring someone into something.
I think you do have an obligation with yourself to lead yourself with all around wholeness and happiness, physically and psychologically. Its important to know the steps that can lead you there and to be able to explain those first hand. With a goal in mind you will be able to make one step at a time to this flourishing.
Jenni
Hello Jenni,
ReplyDeleteFor me to truly help someone within a particular situation you must be where that person was before you can foster help to that individual. For instance, if your husband is lovable and never cheated on you, how can you understand what I am going through when I am getting a divorce because mine cheated on me multiple times? I believe that we must undergo the same experiences others go through before providing assistance to them.
Great blog post Jenni, keep up the wonderful job.