'The Road Less Travelled...'
Today I made another trip to Alan the chiropractor; he worked on my back and then my hips… ‘You’re not quite letting go’ he commented… I remembered that I had written only yesterday that there was another level of ‘letting go’ to plumb.
So, I came up with a plan to help me ‘surrender to the treatment’. I decided that I would pretend to be in an operation under general anesthetic; in that situation I would be totally entrusting my body to the procedures… So I imagined I was unconscious, entrusted my body to Alan’s manipulations and it let go…
I have felt a bit strange since!
But I have learned that body work allows any stuff, tension, or ‘holding on’ to be released and the space it creates allows for new possibilities…
Today Anadi and I went on a long ‘recovery walk’, we talked about the space inside us that is clearing and how this opens up a blank canvass to create whatever we want to dream into being…
The letting go of any tension within, allows a deepening trust of the future unfolding before us….
I trusted Alan to crack and crunch and pull my body every which way; but I was only able to let go because of a decison within me…
It is only me who can let go… the hands and interventions of another can help to access our bodies healing ability; but we are the ones who are responsible for ourselves, and it is our energy that makes the difference to how we live out our lives, and how we create the story of our life…!
We can only truly trust ourselves; as this deepens and we clear the stuff and tensions from our childhood wounds, inevitably we will gather around us other people who we trust. This emerges from the deepening connection to ourselves, taking responsibility for ourselves and committing to creating our future from within us…
Many people do not know that they can effect their future by their inner processes; and so they stay in the same paradigm, like the story of the eagle who was brought up by a chicken… the baby eagle had fallen from its nest and was picked up by a farmer who put it with his chickens to be nurtured. And so the eagle grew up thinking he was a chicken, and he learnt to behave like a chicken, scratching around in the ground for food… one day he looked up and saw an eagle flying overhead. He wondered at the grace, power and beauty of the animal and asked one of his friends about what he was seeing… ‘Oh that is an eagle, you will never be able to fly like that…’ The young eagle accepted these words and went back to scratching around in the ground… He lived his life out not knowing the free and exciting life he could have lived….
Today on our long walk – I have walked ten miles today instead of run them! – took us past many wild horses, and I was reminded of the freedom I am creating for myself; the life I have always dreamed….
When someone expresses a desire to do something or says… ’I wonder if I could…’ it is so important to support their exploration… so many people are put off by others saying things are not possible….
We do not know what is possible until we set off to find out…
Walking in this land of the cactuses and wild horses I recognized how far I have come from any influences about what is and isn’t possible...
Each step I take on this road less travelled is leading me to find out what is…
