My chiropractor, Peter, has been on this journey with me for some years because he grows as I do, and he just gets it, and he gets me.
Open-minded, non-judgmental and entirely sensitive to and intuitive in ways divine, he is a master of his craft and of the way patterns bind and reveals themselves through the aches and pains of the body and of the mind.
Sometimes, I come across things the release of which feels liberating and is integrated in blissful ways that makes you feel thankful. Other times not so; sometimes, the pathway is a little shaky and the road a bit bumpy, like you’ve cleared something only to find turbulence strikes and you go through an emotional and mental detox.
Either way, the process is still happening and it’s still moving you along your path, however it may otherwise seem to the mind or the ego.
If we focus on goals, we miss the journey and the experience of becoming that is the heart of our time here, and we can mistakenly judge a feeling, sensation of mood that is simply old stuff surfacing for release rather than re-traumatising and repeating the pattern, again and again.
The point is, embracing it all is also about realising that your process may take different forms and in the messiness and craziness of life there is an order, a process, a step that is taken by us if we but take the step.
We can sit on the side of the road of life and lament about our woes and wish for something different, or we can find the passion and presence to embrace what is and where we are at and keep walking forward.
At times, we may feel fatigued or like we can no longer bear it, and at those times, I say rest your feet and your head. Take refuge and rally behind the powerful expression from ancient times with origin unknown that says, “And this, too, shall pass away.”
There is something reassuring and relief-affirming in that statement, like a warm hug from a friend or a friendly smile from a warm heart, for it encapsulates that all things pass, even us, and encourages us to be less attached and less fixated on what happens or how it happens.
In the ups and downs, the here and there, may your anchor of awareness drop deep so that you remain impervious to the shifting sands and changing tides in your life…