Week 32 - Sitting in the Power

Bird's Eye View

Life is all about lessons. Sometimes it is about hard-earned lessons from pain and suffering. Life is also about joy that emerges from wonderful experiences. The epitome of a seesaw. Back and forth, up and down.

I have been on my spiritual path since my daughter’s terminal illness catapulted me into awareness. That is what catastrophes do. Catapult.

We can choose to learn from a catastrophe or we can learn to point and blame, and not glean the valuable lessons that help us move deeper into a larger meaning to our life.

As I reflect on my journey, I see my human body as a vessel that collects all my emotional experiences, some more dramatically than others. Do I hang on to them in the form of hurt and despair? Do I process them, feel the lessons learned and release them? Do I ignore them?

When I hang on to my pain and suffering without processing it with available tools, the pain and suffering takes a toll on me physically, mentally, and emotionally.

No judgment here. We all do the best we can. We make choices with every experience based on our own inner process and life experience.

·      We are humans in a spiritual world.

·      Our world is going through a massive shift in consciousness.

·      Everything we are familiar with is changing.

·      You can choose to believe this or not. It is a personal choice.

Much like nature and the seasons, we thaw and bloom in the spring, ripen in the summer, break down in the fall and die back in the winter. The dying back part of the formula is really a hibernating, a regrouping and an ingathering preparing for the upcoming spring.

One tool I learned is to move my awareness up to the treetop level or bird’s eye view to see the bigger picture. This point of view helps me survive all the losses, challenges and changes I have endured in my life.

I can choose to only focus on the news so I do not miss anything that is happening.

I can ignore the telltale signs my body is giving me indicating the toll the negativity is having on my body, mind, and emotions.

I can choose to remember my needs first; the needs that help me find my center; the needs that instill calmness and helps me sleep at night. The needs that help me be centered and emotionally there for my family and friends. This calmness houses my good intentions and values.

It is a choice we can each make.

Create a remedy for yourself that doses out a more balanced intake of the news with a more balanced intake of self-care. We are in control of what we feed our minds, our hearts, and our time.

Photo credit: Linda Christiansen