Doing Well After Fifty Years Of Running...
The bus stopped right outside the window that Athena Jane and I were sitting in, or the other side of... We were having a post 'Corfu intensive development' time in the Grosvenor hotel at Victoria station....
A couple on the top of the open deck bus smiled at us, and we at them... We waved and we asked in sign language if they were cold on this wintry June day...? They gestured that they were... Huddling up together, and gathering their coats and scarfs around them... They indicated for us to take a photo... I did, but I missed them...!
As the bus moved off, Jane and I waved, and the whole of the top deck - noticing that waving was happening - waved too....
It was a joyous, delightful site... A whole top deck of waving hands, disappearing into the rainy busyness of a midsummer Monday London afternoon....
As we prepared to leave, Alina, our waitress, brought us our bill and asked, 'Are you having a celebration... You seem so happy, it is not usual to see people so happy...'
Jane and I had been exploring together, and working quite deeply... Authentic one-on-one dialogue is how we grow, and I believe that the energy of that looks very celebratory from afar...
It is what we all desire deep within us... To connect authentically, and to be seen and heard; and to be real... To celebrate being ourselves and to be celebrated for this!
We got hurt in relationship, when we were little... In not having all our needs met by our parents, we often internalised that we were not okay, and so we disconnected with the parts of ourselves that we deemed unacceptable...
And now as adults we can heal in relationship, through seeing where we reject ourselves in the mirror or relating with one another... Both through the loving kindness and acceptance of another, or through the pain of our own reactivity... With awareness we can use both positive and negative experiences to reclaim and connect with ourselves...
Ultimately our journey here, on planet earth. offers us the opportunity to reclaim our whole self and to be who we truly are...
This leads us towards enjoying relationships that always look to be celebrating something!
Later...
I had an encouraging and inspiring end to my day... I visited Paul Costin, a violin playing osteopath. As he treated me, we chatted and he told me how he had almost given up the violin at one point, because the tension was so great....but he didn't, and now he is relaxed, and is playing better than he has ever played...
At 47 years old he gets surprised when the 20 year olds he is playing with, say to him that they like playing with someone who is calm and experienced....
'I look around and then realise, "oh yes! that's me", and realise I am the person they are talking about...' he said!
I made the appointment to help with my left side and, as I was there I showed him my still strange shaped little finger and the 'pointy right knee'! Both, the legacy from my dramatic downhill fall, on the rocky paths of Donkey beach in St Lucia...
The little finger is slowly slowly getting better... Paul echoed what Alan Platt, the chiropractor in St Lucia said to me....
Alan said that everything is reversible and suggested and that I simply have to keep working on my finger over the coming weeks and months....
Paul confirmed this; he also said that it might take a lot of time, but that the body can remodel itself....
He then said to me that I know my body well, that I am obviously looking after it...
And...
That it is doing very well after fifty years of running....
