LIVING WITH
awareness IN
WORDS JULES O’NEILL and FI HARDY
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A good friend knows all your best stories; a best friend has lived them with you. See the difference?” – Anonymous In today’s world, friendship can be equal to the best love affair you can experience. You need to be willing to open up, show all your colours and share who you are to receive the results we are talking about. The results of an intimate aware friendship – a soul friendship – can be profoundly magical. If you are reading this now you are most likely a person who loves to grow and personally develop. Even though we can give a lot of this to ourselves, our egos can also prevent a lot of who we are from being discovered and loved.
FRIENDSHIP
Greater self depths are found in intimate soul friendships. So many times we can unconsciously fall into negative patterns and programs. None of us want to do this and many of us go to workshops, read books, see awesome practitioners to help free ourselves from these and give ourselves a better life. Opening up authentically to a conscious friend can give you this and so much more. An aware friend, who loves you and wants you to be the best you can be, can be another set of eyes for you when you fall into these negative patterns and programs. She/he can sometimes point out things in a warmer and softer way then our partners can sometimes. All of us have dreams and goals we desire to achieve. We talk about them and sometimes even write them down. Sharing them within an aware committed friendship and asking to be kept accountable, is a sure way we can achieve these dreams and goals. In the
times we get stuck, lose our confidence, wander from our path or procrastinate, we can vulnerably open up and look at what is really behind it. This is so valuable in keeping to our authentic journey. Sometimes we need that kick up the behind and sometimes we need conscious redirection – this type of friendship offers both. As Fi and I write this, we are coming from a place where we share this type of friendship. We could not be the people we are today without it. We have been able to discover more of who we are and get to great vulnerable depths within ourselves. We are both clearer on our individual paths and walking them. It has made the up times so much more fun and the down times so much more soothing. The intention of this article is to inspire you to let this level of soul friendship in. If you would like to know more about how we live with using awareness in our friendship daily – have a look at the website: julesoneill.com
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