WOW! I have been on this planet 60 years and my learning has been exponential.
I turned 60 years old Sunday, June 25, wow! This is what 60 plus looks like. I never thought it would. When I look at my learning, it has been such a progression and feels like it’s in hyper drive. Not just this lifetime but also many lifetimes before that have led to this moment.
My mother passed away when she was 56 years old and my father when he was 62. For a long time I believed that my lifespan would be short. Then a Buddhist friend of mine talked to me about why I might want to live longer in this lifetime. She explained to me that I was on a roll with my learning and that I want to keep the momentum going. To actually get as close to enlightenment each life time as possible. It made a lot of sense to me actually.
It’s interesting to me how I have been doing this work for such a long time and the universe still throws me fireballs for my like higher learning. I have been doing intensive spiritual work since I was 30. Even though it started when my mother died when I was 26 I didn’t dive in deep until I was 32 years old.
I am still learning to love myself. I think it will be a lifelong journey!
One of my biggest lessons turning 60 years old was that it truly is a celebration not something that I should be upset or sad about. I am so excited that I’ve been in my body for 60 years and I can still get up and hike whenever I want to, laugh hard at myself, and accept this 60-year-old body totally. The last one is something I work on every day. Learning to have an understanding for this body and compassion for this body, even though I am not of this body. This body of mine seems so real to me and with age is getting realer with every year. Although with my learning I become less of my body and more of who I truly am, Spirit.
So even though with age I seem to feel my body more, with age I let go of my body identification more. That is what my journey is here to realize I am not this body that I’m spirit.
