I have gotten very excited about embryology and am the child in awe of the process of life! At conception, we each already have a midline – that grows into the central nervous system – that the body organises itself around. Everything happens in relation to the midline – this our tree of life, how awesome is that? This is the first gift we are gifted by Life, and one that can help us throughout the whole of our existence.
And then there is an indentation that happens along the midline – which grows into the heart and the diaghram. So this hierarchy of development can teach us what is also important to pay attention to in life - just sitting in silence and paying attention to one’s breath settles the whole person into themselves, how easy is that? And in the silence of that breath, the connection to one’s heart enables the answer to key questions– who are you? what is your dream? With that silence of breath is the space for the answer. During my training as a craniosacral therapist, we were also taught about resourcing – how as a therapist (and as a life skill) one needs to be able to pull on one’s resources to not shut down when a challenging situation happens. We were tasked with listing the top ten things that made us feel good – be it your favourite slippers, sitting by a roaring fire, eating a good curry – and were taught to be able to pull that sensation into our body when we felt ourselves shutting down. Its a good practice to try – what butters your bread for you? How does your body feel when you bring it in? Can you maintain that when the shit hits the fan? Life is very much about embodiment and foundations – sparked by the awesomeness of the creation of life. I am becoming more and more that with these quickening times, we have to be very conscious of what it is that we are calling in. I even wonder if we may indeed arrive at a time where thoughts are manifested instantly.......
The question for all of us, in every moment, is are we investing our attention in what we WANT to manifest in our lives or is our attention on what we DO NOT WANT? We all know that our attention creates our reality, yet this is such a blind spot for many, part of the great forgetting, maybe its very essence. Do you know where your attention has been focused? If not, just look at the results that you have in your life – for this is the sum total of your attention. A sobering thought, maybe for some. But if this mirror sends you into despair and self pity then you are also forgetting that we are always freshly creating our reality. NOW. So if your attention is on how crap you are at doing this.............. What a cycle! So there is a call to use this great jewel, this great gift of ATTENTION in a way of beauty, peace, grace, harmony, wisdom and freedom. Despair hits all of us at some time in our lives. It can be dark and energy consuming. When it has you in its grip, there are questions you need to find the answers for:
• What do you have faith in? • What do you believe in? • What do you take refuge in? For it is these things that keep us standing when things get hard, when the storm hits you right where you feel it most, when something you love is lost, when despair is so close you can smell it, when you feel helpless and small in face of something big. There is a call for us to really know, in our bodies, what sustains us from within. There is never a guarantee that what sustains us from without will be constantly with us. But that which sustains us from within will be with us till we die. The power of faith is tremendous – and can be both positive and destructive (look at all the atrocious acts done in the name of god). It is possible to see those who have faith – it is a lightness in their being, a twinkle in the eye, a surety, a knowing that there is something bigger than them that they believe in. It enables people to walk over fire and not feel it. It enables people to carry out miraculous acts without even thinking about it. And that is the key – for faith, one has to get out of the way, it is not a mind thing, it is a sing of your complete being. The phrase ‘unconditional love’ has been trashed by the New Age scene, but lets claim it back with the power it holds! So what/who do you love without any conditions? For it is this we place our faith in; faith has no place where conditions apply. Faith is an entire thing, all consuming. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Jelaluddin Rumi I’m continually in awe of how the path of craniosacral therapy weaves so beautifully with how we walk our life path. I was in a webinar this week on ‘birth from the babies perspective’ and had a moment of synchronicity that I’d like to share.
We have one thing in common so far; we were all born. One of the things taught to craniosacral practioners is that we all experience birth trauma (to some extent) but we are not necessarily traumatised by it – if our story is deeply listened to, then we can let go of the experience. We are taught (and I have witnessed) that deeper healing happens when the baby’s story is truly given space and listened to. Now this is still relevant whatever age we are – as stuff happens (be it trauma, an argument, an accident, a death etc), it either stays held in the body space, taking up your energy, or if it is deeply listened to and heard, it is let go of and there is more potency available in your system. The gift of really listening to yourself, to the stories that are held within your very DNA, so that they can be heard, witnessed with heart and released is a huge step on the pathway to freedom. Most of us just hear. To me, this is when you are quick to respond from the outer layers of yourself – like a deflection – whatever is there to be listened to does not reach your very core; it is not given a chance to land, expand and settle. Hearing is the return rally of a badminton shuttle, listening is the pebble that drops to the bottom of the still lake. It is possible to walk through life just hearing. Yet if we switched to the deep listening path, there is so much more that could unfold out of the mystery for us.... |
May you walk in Beauty
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