Hello and welcome to day 25 of this experiment where we're living from a place of love rather than fear for 30 days.
So it's a 30-day experiment.
This is day 25.
Each and every day I've been bringing my awareness back to a place of love.
When I get lost in fearful or insecure thoughts,
When I notice them,
I then bring my awareness back to that settled wisdom within me.
And each day I write a journal and then just reflect what I've been seeing during the day.
It's highlighting so much for me personally,
Things that I hadn't really realized about repetitive thought loops,
Negative thought patterns,
And I'm seeing clearly the power of the lessons I can learn when I bring my awareness back to love.
Today we've been camping and we were in a place called Slapton and today has been all about connecting with the past,
Connecting with the soldiers who went to war in World War II,
Soldiers that actually were stationed in the very area we were staying.
I've been to Slapton many times and I love the area.
It's got a wonderful freshwater lake called the Lay and it's also right beside the ocean.
And during the Second World War,
The whole area was requisitioned and this meant that everybody,
Everybody who lived there was moved out and relocated and soldiers and the army moved in.
All the domestic houses,
The farm buildings,
Everywhere was taken over by soldiers.
And these soldiers,
This would have been back in the 1940s,
The soldiers were coming here because the beaches at Slapton were very similar to the beaches at Normandy and they were practicing for the D-Day landings,
The Normandy landings.
So the soldiers came here,
Came to the area and it became a practice for the Normandy landings.
And I've been to the area quite a few times.
There was something though that really struck me today.
As I walked through the footpaths and I looked at the views and I realised that these soldiers would have seen the same views that I was seeing,
I realised that these young men,
And it was young men,
Here they were probably seeing this view for the very last time,
The very last time in their lives they were going to see a view of the countryside of England.
And many of them,
Many,
Many hundreds of them,
When they were actually deployed to Normandy,
Many of them were killed.
So the recollection and the feeling and the connection with these spirits,
These ghosts almost,
That would have walked this land many decades ago,
I felt so connected and close.
I just felt this extraordinary sense of love and compassion.
For me today,
It wasn't about choosing love,
It was about experiencing love,
About really feeling a gratitude for these men that gave their lives,
Gave their lives so that I had a future.
I wasn't even born then,
But they gave their lives for a future that I might live into.
And I was touched,
So touched.
And then I thought of their families and I thought of all the families that never saw their loved ones again.
And again,
This was because these men went and fought a war and stood up for the freedom that they felt was so important.
I've been so touched today.
And I often come across areas and I see things that are reminiscent of the Second World War.
There are many areas along the coastline that you can see the evidence of old buildings that were built for war purposes.
But there was something today that struck me deeply.
It was almost as if I was swimming in the connected energy of these people.
And I felt such gratitude,
Love and compassion for what they had done.
That's what love showed me today.
It just gave me this experience of connection with the past,
Of recognising what previous generations had done in order that I might live the way I live.
And I felt this sorrow and sadness,
But love and compassion at the lives that were lost and the families that would have grieved the lives that were lost at the very end of the Second World War as these men went onto the Normandy beaches and found their way to actually defeating the Germans,
Ultimately ending the war.
So today has been about connection and love,
Gratitude and peace and compassion.
And I'm just curious what you're learning for yourself today.
I so love this experiment.
It's showing me so many things each and every day.
And there's something delicious about reflecting on what I'm learning.
It really embeds and seeps into my soul.
I do hope you're enjoying the experiment as much as me.
Do let me know how you're getting on.
