When your emotional world is on fire and you are looping in
the claustrophobia of a spinning mind, pause and return your attention into
your body. In just one instant of pure kindness, with the help of the breath,
shift your awareness out of the swirling narrative and provide a holding
environment for your immediate experience.
This pause is a threshold to a new world. Travel inside
that alive, creative, alchemical middle place in which new circuitry can take
birth and bloom.Provide sanctuary for the vivid appearance, color, and texture
of the feeling to be held as it washes through you, conveying sacred data and
information for the journey ahead.
It may feel as if you need to turn away or quickly seek
relief, but this is the old groove that has been laid down in personal and
collective networks for billions of moments. By way of a fiery, compassionate
presence, offer metabolization to these ancient companions. A home where they
can rest, illuminate, and then continue along their way.
Lay down a new groove within you. And offer this electric
new pathway to a weary world.
You are okay. Go slow. There is no such thing as an
incomplete moment. Stay with the sensations as they rise and fall in your
belly, in your torso, and in your heart. You can hold and contain so much more
than you imagine. Waves are washing in, not as obstacles or enemies, but as
forerunners of integration, longing for reorganization and to find their
rightful place within the wild ecology that you are.
As you return, over and over and over again, into the
aliveness of the somatic world, slowly the tangles and the knots will dissolve
by love. And all that will remain is a luminous field of awareness, warmth, and
creativity. Give yourself to this field, which is inseparable from the
substance of your very own heart.
Art by Kabe Russell
