The year 2025 is about awakening. Are you awakening? Are you awakened? What does that even mean? In this essay, we will look at the meaning of awakening, why awakening is important, and what happens once you are awakened.
The Meaning of Awakening
We awaken from sleep by coming into consciousness. Consciousness is an awareness of who you are, where you are, what you are thinking, and what you are doing. In addition, we awaken to new ideas, and possibilities. Awakening can be an expansion physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually. There is growth involved in awakening. We take on new perspectives, perhaps try on new ideas, find a way to stretch ourselves. Awakening can be both exhilarating, and intimidating because it involves making changes and that is often difficult.
Thought
Every day new ideas are forming and being presented to the world. Those thoughts might be about fashion, books, ideas, or beliefs, to name a few. The awakening is the original idea about each of these topics. It’s about introducing something no one has actually thought about before.. Usually, it’s the idea of one person, which then is considered and perhaps adopted by others. It’s an original.
Now thoughts are advancing into all areas. Innovation involves thinking. Relationships do too. Perhaps, we think about what is happening in the world socially, politically, economically, or religiously. Over the past century, it was believed having a lot of money to buy material goods was important. More and more people emulated the idea, until materialism was considered the basis for happiness. If you didn’t own beautiful or expensive things, and have a prestigious job to maintain that lifestyle, you were not considered successful. Except, for most people, having more and more was not as satisfying as was anticipated. There is an emptiness around ‘things’.
We are reawakening now to the importance of relationships and communities to help us find happiness. In addition, we are beginning to trust in our own inner guidance, rather than being strongly, and sometimes blindly, influenced by others. It is the wedding of strong relationships and being one’s own person that helps us find happiness. We are social beings, who desire a sense of self to be happy. As more and more people awaken to the importance of this idea, we will grow positively as individuals. bringing more love and kindness into the world.
Technology
As an older person, I admit I am not even close to awakening to all the new technology coming into the world. Technology is permeating all aspects of life from smart phones, to automating and innovating machines, to space travel. Technology is here to stay. It serves a purpose as a tool to enhance production of goods and services.
However, it can insinuate itself into our lives and sometimes take over. Screen time is a problem for both children and adults. Unfortunately, it can then interfere with social interactions and relationships, as well as how we grow and expand our understanding of ourselves. When computers and AI solve our problems for us, over time we lose the ability to think on a higher level.
If we are hooked on technology of one sort or another, our awakening comes from a deeper understanding of what we give up of ourselves. It is a point of realization and change. We begin to use the technologies as tools when needed, rather than allowing them to take over our lives. Technology can be fun and fascinating, but it shouldn’t run our life movie.
Communication
Communication is a key part of awakening. How we communicate determines how we relate to other people, and situations. Lack of communication skills can deeply impact our abilities to get along with others, as well as learn how to negotiate the world successfully. Good communication is an important tool for helping others understand you, as well as getting your needs met.
Not only do we communicate with other people, but communicating with our inner self is important as well. That means we begin to have our own ideas on how we live life. We explore who we are, what our purpose is, what makes us happy and how we achieve it. With that foundation, satisfaction with our lives spills over into all other areas. Over time, it leads to communication in our relationships which becomes less ego driven and more heart centered. We care more about people than things. Ultimately, our needs are met when we communicate thoughtfully.
Conclusion
To conclude, this is a time of awakening to a new level of life. Thoughts, technology and communication are all areas we will see expand in the upcoming future. Making changes in our thinking, using technology as a tool, and making sure our communication with others is heart-based will help us to live well in the years to come. We are entering a new realm where each of us has the responsibility to grow spiritually through our thoughts, communication and actions, and to help others to grow as well. Adonai.
