Dedication

We usually have a routine. Regular things, regular day. There are things that we need to do on a daily basis. Some out of obligation for work, school, others for our health like exercising. Some things are like hobbies like music, painting. However, there is something that is essential in whatever activity we perform: dedication.

These days I have been thinking about it in a general way, but also about specific things. When we decide to begin something, like going to the gym, it will take us a great part of the energy to keep doing it.

When it comes to some discoveries about ourselves, and the path we chose to follow in order to develop and evolve, it is not different. Actually, it requires even more dedication than other subjects.
Occultism, witchcraft, or vampirism for example. An individual who awakes to his nature, what is the next step? He is a vampire. Ok, and now? I wrote about this issue in another post. Some just stay in this cool layer of “being” something but do not do anything in order to evolve, to grow.

What practices are being done? Studies about the energy manipulation? The spiritual world is something that you are interested in? Occult related things?
A diversity of things exists in order to help each person to achieve knowledge about the necessary tools. Practice, theory…
A lot of things that go beyond just staying in front of the computer arguing in groups over vain things.


Developing body, mind, spirit


We would be incomplete beings if our dedication was placed upon just one or two things, then one of the parts would be deficient.

Body - Taking care of our temple is something very important. The quality of life: the food we eat, sports we practice, the air we breathe, even the sounds and the surroundings that affect us physically, stress, work, noise, pollution.

Mind -The things we read, we study. How we spend our time. Are we being productive? Using the time wisely? The distractions are huge nowadays, that is easy to spend hours in a Facebook debate that won’t lead anywhere, just an ego trip, instead of just getting a book or a text that would bring some knowledge.
We have easy access to so many things. In the past, people would have to travel long distances, go after sages, find masters. But now, we can have knowledge found easily in books and online, the thing is knowing where to look for, reliable sources, and wanting to go after them.

Spirit – Each one may have a particular way of dealing with it. But it is an important area to be developed.

There are so many practices like tai chi, qi hong, martial arts, meditation, yoga, reiki... Systems, studies that link to a diversity of things. It is no excuse to say that we lack time, or that we cannot find something that aligns with us.

We are the ones that are always finding excuses to not practice something, to not keep doing something we know we should, that would bring benefit.

I understand that patience and the time are important, the pace. Some say there is the “correct” time for things to happen, and that we achieve a better maturity as the years pass by. However, if we keep waiting for that “right” moment, it could be just a mind trap looking for excuses to send us to the laziness reign, where stagnations rules.

There are many things linked to vampirism for example. Many layers. Even if one “just” thinks of himself as a “sang”, or “psy”, what is he doing to learn more about his “condition”?

Knowledge about things is important. And not only a focused one. When you begin studying, researching, if you are an interested and curious person, you will see a vast world opening ahead of you. And it is a wonderful thing.

Some are interested in the origins of vampirism, then they keep researching, and go for more information. They hear about energy, chakras, what takes them to theories, practices, energy manipulation. Some deal with magick, witchcraft. Others try to understand under a biological view, the sang condition.

My point here is, being a vampire, a witch, a wizard, a mage, or a human seeking for evolving, everyone can and should keep going ahead. Learning, studying, talking, discussing, exchanging.
The secret is to know where you want to go, to understand the means you can use that align with your Self, the tools you can gather and manage to use.

But the most important of all is in the title of this post: Dedication.

If we do not dedicate to our practices, we will fail. We will create a false illusion that something is being achieved, but we would be negligent. “ Tomorrow I begin, next weekend I will read about it, next Monday I keep the practice…” Dedication is a matter of beating our laziness, our mind.

Time passes, the clock is ticking, and when we realize, many years will have passed… We may regret, and think… “ there were so many things I could have done…”

So if you find yourself inside occult related studies, read, go after what you need. Practice, learn, train… Experience, fail, learn from your failures.

If you are a witch, you will learn from nature, with the practices, and with books and people. If you are a vampire, the same thing. It is not just about “being” a vampire, but all the things that weave the fabric of it, that is just a layer of the big picture of the Self.

So I would say it is not only a matter of dedication but also commitment.

It has to become something important, otherwise, things will remain the same layer as they are now. We would be the people we are now, not changing, not growing, not maturing.
Same old talks, same old actions. Just accepting things as they are.

Things won’t knock at our doors. Knowledge won’t just appear. Wisdom won’t be there suddenly when you wake up. Masters won’t just invite you to be their students.

We have to go after all of these. We are the ones responsible for ourselves and what we want, where we want to get. It is personal, individual. We have free will, and most important, we have Will.
We need to know where we want to get.

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."

―Yogi Berra  '

I believe no one wants to be the same in 5, or 10 years. So what are we doing today?