This week on Poetic Resurrection we're going to discuss the perceptions of possessions.
I started meditating several years ago.
I wanted to do it for many years but my mind kept going to my to-do list.
Before I was thinking about the day or what I could have said or done differently,
I realized I just needed to replace those thoughts with a place that brings me joy.
The forest,
The ocean,
Somewhere in nature that calmed me.
Finding that happy place to just visualize.
Growing up I have felt lack and I thought possessions were the answer even though whatever I purchased was exciting and made me happy for a very limited amount of time and then I had to store it.
Gratitude for what I have and realizing I had so much more than I thought.
Naming what I was grateful for in general terms and then you could take these and you could break them down in more detail.
My family,
My friends,
My health,
My home,
My car,
Mother Earth,
The air I breathe,
The meals I eat,
Etc.
Etc.
Realizing I had abundance and didn't even realize it.
The pandemic had me take a deeper look at my material possessions.
Deciding to donate these possessions was easier than the overwhelming task of going through them.
Releasing possessions that we thought we might need in the future,
Yet we use valuable real estate be it an apartment,
Home,
Car,
Garage or paying for storage that we rarely check.
It can also be a gift from someone and we don't want to feel ungrateful by giving it away.
Oh and you paid so much money for an item even though it might no longer be our style because you wouldn't go out to the store and buy it today.
What I have found through all my meditations reflecting on self and life is that gratitude brings everything into perspective.
You realize what you need and what you don't.
This brings about change.
Change in attitude,
Even change in residence and change in the people around you and most of all change in your perceptions.
Every night I send love and gratitude to the people and possessions in my life.
I don't add any stipulations.
For example,
I send love to my parents because they love me and are supportive.
It's a loving statement but it has a because attached to it.
Send out love just by sending love,
No attachments.
While looking around my home to see what I can change,
It dawned on me.
What if I don't do this and something happens to me?
Do I really want to leave this for my family and my friends to deal with?
Thinking about this,
I came up with a poem called Tomorrow.
I originally recorded this at a voiceover lab and the engineer stopped to think if she had taken care of her home and possessions.
It felt good to see that someone else started to reflect on their home.
Here's the poem entitled Tomorrow from Inspire Me Perception.
If I was to die tomorrow,
Would I have organized my home?
Would I had left my paperwork in order?
Would I have made it easier for my family?
If I was to die tomorrow,
Would I have followed and completed my dreams?
Would I have loved the way I wanted to love?
Would I have visited the world like I wanted to?
If I was to die tomorrow,
Would I have told those that I loved that I love them?
Would I have seen the beauty in my own life?
Can I say that I lived my life to its fullest?
If I was to die tomorrow,
Would I have lived today?
Would I have loved differently?
Would I have felt my life was complete?
If I would die tomorrow,
A sadness would be there to know I wasted so much time afraid of the unknown.
If I was to die tomorrow,
I would make the unknown known.
I'd face the unknown I was so afraid of as I choose my life today with strength and joy.
Many blessings.
