Week 74 - Sitting in the Power

Coming Home

If I could stand in the street and wait, wait for anyone to come up to me and ask what is the meaning of their life, I would say to them, the meaning of your life is that you matter. You matter in this world. Your presence is important. I see you. You belong here. You belong. Healing happens.

If I stay in my corner of the world and continue to ask why trauma happened to me, my inner child can’t find answers.  If I place my inner, loving adult next to me, my question turns into guiding support that leads me out of the corner and into an environment where my traumatized brain can process and grow from my fractured experience to a place of healing.

Every time I sit in silence and listen, I grow as my loving inner adult, fortifying my foundation. I build my inner environment and that environment continues to grow. 

I matter. I belong. I am loved. I am safe.

On Belonging and Coming Home by David Whyte

“To feel as if you belong is one of the great triumphs of human existence — and especially to sustain a life of belonging and to invite others into that… But it’s interesting to think that … our sense of slight woundedness around not belonging is actually one of our core competencies; that though the crow is just itself and the stone is just itself and the mountain is just itself, and the cloud, and the sky is just itself — we are the one part of creation that knows what it’s like to live in exile, and that the ability to turn your face towards home is one of the great human endeavors and the great human stories.

It’s interesting to think that no matter how far you are from yourself, no matter how exiled you feel from your contribution to the rest of the world or to society — that, as a human being, all you have to do is enumerate exactly the way you don’t feel at home in the world — to say exactly how you don’t belong — and the moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already taking the path back to the way, back to the place you should be.

You’re already on your way home.