One day in my life, I woke up.
It was after my engineering studies. I was living in Beirut at the time, and for the first time in my life I moved out of my parents house to live with my friends, and I had no studies and no responsibilities to weigh on me. I was officially doing my military service, but practically I had nothing to do except attending few hours per week the army base. So it was kind of my sabbatical year, the first time in my life I had space from school and university and everything else that I "had" to do since birth.
The freedom, the new environment, the mental space, the meeting with many new inspiring friends, the hanging out on beaches and wild night-life, the new music, the new experiences, etc... lead to an unexpected and very powerful shift in perceptions and feelings and consciousness expansion. I experienced insights that made me self-aware and world-aware. I could finally see. I could finally hear. I felt like a veil has been removed from in front of my eyes. In spiritual terms, I awakened.
It was really very powerful. My life would never be the same again. I instantly became attracted to oriental philosophies and to Buddhist stories. I could grasp new books and information much deeper and faster. I started to understand and know myself in a whole new way, which also allowed me to start understanding other people and be aware of their feelings and their energy. I also could review all my past, and in glimpses of insights I understood what I had lived, and why I had become who I was at the time. I woke up to the very powerful realisation that from that moment on, I could stir my own life and destiny.
I am sharing this with you because really this is the origin of my incredible passion for personal development and spirituality. I needed answers to understand what had happened to me. I needed help and support to know how to handle my own destiny. I needed people who have lived comparable experiences to guide my way. And I found that in the spiritual teachers and prophets and personal development teachers and inspiring people. They became my friends, my beloved guides and my companions.
And so after this initial awakening, I kept on introspecting, and reading, and searching, and experimenting, and discovering new insights and expanding my consciousness. And each time I learn something new, I feel the ecstacy of the aha moment, and the satisfaction to look at the world with expanded awareness, and the reward of geetting better and better in managing myself and my life.
And because my process of self-realisation has been an intense movement from darkness to light through years and years of research and exploration and experimentation, where I stumbled and struggled and had to overcome, I gained an extraordinary maturity that makes me able to understand and help other people and guide them effectively through this same process.
And so today, that's what attracts me to join MindValley. To continue the journey with enlightened people and to spread enlightened ideas and be in daily contact with my beloved enlightened heroes and teachers and teachings, for a better life and a better world.
