Sometimes I like to reflect,
in as many meaningful dimensions that I can consider, the emerging themes
that seem to present themselves in the course of a day-evening working
with clients. Today this is what emerged, in the order in which it now
presents itself to me:
Shame is a “lock-in” that
forces us to belong in a place of perpetual victimization. Powerlessness
fuels it, and so we erroneously conclude there is no way out other than
to ceaselessly blame . . . anyone, anything and ourselves.
There are no Guarantees
The cry here is to forgive,
and correspondingly accept.
Because there are no guarantees
and we can only count on perpetual change in our lives, when we face
reality we become very present with whatever environmental rhythms we
find ourselves in. The challenge is to synchronize with them.
The Healing Power of Acknowledging
Feelings
When, for whatever reason,
we refuse to be fully present, we are thrown into a no man’s land
of “empty”. Anybody would freak in a space like that, so what
is the confusion about in “not knowing what’s going on here?”
It’s far better to simply
acknowledge the feeling, trusting we’ll survive.
There is no Waiting
I did a lot of hands-on-healing
today. I worked with people with life-threatening illness, and
listened to a lot of desperately honest self-questions in the face of
realizing “there are no guarantees” about life, and so there is
no “waiting” for – whatever – it doesn’t matter.
This is All There Is.
Our Capacity to extend Beyond
the Known
I found myself asking, where
does visioning fit in? It is not delusion, not illusion – just
our capacity to extend beyond the known, allowing a heartfelt desire
to show itself in our opening consciousness. That is magic, and where
all “cutting edge” shifts occur with our own corresponding unique,
unfolding process.
At this time of still struggling
with somehow finding myself looking, as if with a microscope, at every
area of my life from a place of “not knowing”, and amazingly enough,
continuing to be willing to face the terror of that and find myself
strangely comfortable with whatever happens, I can at last safely admit
that I Don’t Know.
The Circle is Complete for
Revealing
Its a relief, and puts me on
equal ground with all others.
The circle is complete, and
a new direction can finally reveal itself to and for me.