It was late 2018 when I was laying down on the couch with my youngest daughter..my attempts of trying to get her to have a nap had failed. I was watching YouTube! with her and as we were about to watch the same Wiggles song for the 3rd time in a row an ad for Superbrain came up. I was sold and signed up for the free masterclass. I was hooked…my spark for learning and life had been re-ignited. Without a second thought, I went ahead and invested my time, energy and funds into the quest..thank I did!
After completing the Superbrain quest, Jim had helped me became brave enough to seek help for what I initially thought was going to solve my partner’s issue with booze. Since his recent brush with cancer the year before hadn’t slapped him into action, I had taken it upon myself to “fix” him. [...]
In came Marisa Peer and the RTT quest. Perfect timing thanks again Mindvalley, Marisa and the universe! At first, I have to admit, I was sceptical...as if hypnosis could work on me...especially when it was performed via the net. Well, this was the second slap in the face I needed. The memories that got bought up during the masterclass had me signing up for the quest without a second thought. The whole quest and support of the tribe helped me more than words can describe. I cleared up some serious stuff that had been limiting me and am now able to apply better understanding to any new potential limiting beliefs that come up in life. I still listen to the hypnosis sessions at times I need them. Amazing, life-changing stuff.
Next thing I knew I was signing up for Lifebook and then Mastery. Jon and Missy took me on a journey of self-discovery. Bringing that much attention to my life has been amazing. It highlighted that I already had many of the ingredients to have a very happy fulfilling life...I just needed to do some fine-tuning and bring conscious attention to nurturing and growing those areas… but the one thing that wasn’t fitting was my job.
Welcome the 3rd slap in the face. It was in the form of a major adult tantrum/burnout/midlife crisis kinda thing over a seemingly minor work incident that ended up with my resignation. It was a messy breakup and its not entirely over yet, but it is getting there. What it has given me is the time and energy to work on healing, understanding myself betterer, installing some very beneficial daily habits and integrating my amazing new framework for navigating my life ..go the Lifebook process and my 3rd slap in the face!! Where its all leading to in the career aspect, I’m not exactly certain, but I am getting clearer every day on what this might be.
Somewhere along the line, I signed up for a quest membership (was before access all areas coming out) and after Lifebook, I completed Jeffrey Allen’s Transcendence and Lisa Nichols Speak & Inspire as part of that subscription. Again both amazing quests that helped me peel some more layers of self-discovery off. I use the room in the middle of my head often during my adapted form of meditation/quiet time each day as well as the mirror work when I need a bit of a lift!
My thirst for anything Mindvalley within the budget of my new employment status took me on the free quests Evolutionary Woman with Barbara Marx Hubbard (who I was very saddened to discover is no longer in the mortal realm) and the 6 Phase Meditation with Vishen himself. Again...amazing stuff.
In light of a promise of some up funds from my career exit, I then purchased the Energy Medicine course with Donna Eden. At first, the non-quest type format threw me a little, but I very quickly overcame that and loved every minute of it. Donna’s energy is enough to make me smile whenever I think of her! I refer back to this course often. My girls and I do the daily energy routine while getting breakfast ready..sometimes they just watch me, but I’m hoping they will take it on board more especially since they watch me do it every day...the blow out makes them laugh and breaks the ice when things in the house get “heated”. I am really hoping it will assist with some healing for my daughter's allergies too… I felt the heat of her energy when working on her second and third chakras and know its related to her digestive/immune systems… that tricky spleen meridian! I try them out on myself and her as much as I can...however getting a 5-year-old to sit still for long is a challenge I am yet to tame!
While starting the Energy Medicine course, the offer for the all-access pass came up. I had been toying with the idea of doing a few other quests but had been holding off due to the change in my employment status and how much I had already consumed! Well, I couldn’t say no to an all-access pass ...what an unbelievable thing to offer.
I have to admit I have been like a kid in a candy store with this pass so far...I wanted to do all the quests at once..that amazing feeling while doing the quests and after are addictive...so if I do more of them at once, the more amazing I will feel right... the more enlightened I will be, the faster I will grow and I will be the best me I can be before I know it...gone from my mind were all the teachings from Marisa’s quest... I am enough… I am who I need to be right now. Nope I was riding the wild thought train of more of anything has gotta be good...give it give it haha! Keep me on this sugar high of growth.
So I signed up for the M Word with Emily Fletcher and did this at the same time as Awaken the Species with Neale Donald Walsch. I also started doing some skillshare and ed x courses at the same time. I justified it to myself that doing all these courses and quests together was ok. I had already made time for quest work, learning and had started meditating daily so I figured it was all good...I was just fine-tuning some processes and learning new stuff… all in line with my plan right?! Check.. Check check … ticking boxes everywhere.. Happy days!
I then joined up for Chakra Healing with Anodea Judith and the Quest for Personal Mastery with Srikumar Rao. These started while I was still finishing up the other quests and courses so here I am doing 4 quests, 2 skillshare workshops, reading 3 different books and enrolled in 2 edx courses...as well as all the usual life stuff.
As you guessed it… suddenly I was feeling a bit tired… miss “shouty impatient mcgee” was rearing her head again around the house… it was the sign I needed to acknowledge that I was doing too much… I needed to be patient..but I wasn’t ready to admit that to myself just yet.… so I signed up for the Longevity quest with Ben Greenfield, the Habit of Ferocity with Steven Kotler and Think Like a Hero with Robin Sharma too… again under the justification that I was already doing fasted stints and exercise every day and some of the information was overlapping with other habits I have installed from other quests… so was just fine-tuning those habits...right?! I was being gritty and focused and driven...i was getting shit done.
No Amy! Hellloooo!! … thankfully insight and wisdom are now taking over from some of life’s more recent painful slaps… I get it... it's not how it works. It's not a race to get to some imagined place I should be… growth is a lifelong process, something I will work on each and every day of my life. I am taking Dr Rao’s advice and enjoying the process… being patient with my human self.
From now on quests will be taken with the time I need to take with them and will fit in with what is happening in my world at that moment too. I will let each of them sink in and absorb them into “me” properly before jumping to the next one. Step by step. Day by day.
I need time to reflect, celebrate and appreciate all the positive changes that are happening in my life and relationships...by the way, my partner and I are still together and happy for the most part… we are getting back to enjoying more moments of fun together, having a weekly date night away from the kids and remembering why we have stayed together as long as we have… he is my best mate after all, yes he still has demons to deal with, and they are still teaching me patience, but that is his journey and I will be here to support him if and when he is ready to go there!”.
I am practising drawing again, reading, writing, exercising, engaging more willingly and fully in conversations with the people in my life as well as strangers (long stories but this has led me to who I believe are universe sent people I needed to speak with like kids, social workers, authors, publishers and just generally awesome amazing people!), volunteering to support kids learning to read, composting, growing our own fruit and veg and participating more in my life with a conscious awareness. I still feel like I have some catching up to do with fitting my oxygen mask before I am ready to participate more fully with the world and give back more but I am definitely getting there. Anytime I start boarding the wild trains of thoughts, I am getting quicker at getting off and returning to the present moment.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who works at or with Mindvalley to bring such amazing content to the world… you have all truly help put me on the path to transform my life for the better a little bit every day. The person I was a year ago is now a complete stranger to me… I am looking forward to meeting who I am in 12 months time...but I am not in a rush to get there.. for now, I am smiling a shit load more and feeling pretty damn lucky to be living my days as I am.