Letting Go... Freer and Happier
I flew to Corfu on Monday.
Landing on this verdant beautiful island, a sunny sparkly jewel in the Aegean Sea. As I stepped out of the plane, I felt the land familiar, embracing, delightful to my soul.
And there was Anadi!
We have been in different countries for the past three weeks, seeing him only on Skype, and there he was in real life!
For the past two mornings we have started our days swimming in this magical ocean again, playing and laughing like children, diving like dolphins.
How I love this man.
The past three weeks have been rich with experience. Mainly in another island that too is dear to my soul! England...
Anadi and I landed there together and celebrated his 50th birthday, and then he flew off to Corfu. He has been working there for hours and hours each day programming away, and also planning his sales trip to South Africa with Dwight.
We sat in the summer in Dwight's bar Calypso, I have written many blogs from here... It is closed until next May, the big French windows pulled shut, the chairs all stacked inside.
I am writing at a table in the corner, and Dwight and Anadi are over the other side of the room.
We were last here in June. It feels a lifetime or two ago. I feel like a different person inside from then.'How do you feel different?'Anadi asked me yesterday, when I said this to him. 'I don't know, I can't really say, but returning here now to the same land, shows me I am not the same person I was before. More has been shed, more has been let go of and I feel happier inside than ever in my life'
I loved being in England. I loved seeing my clients. I loved every hour of work I did, and I did many! This is my reason why there have been no blogs...
I loved running on the downs in my new barefoot shoes. This wasn't an intended move to barefoot running, but following my five mile runs, feeling the firm wet sand beneath my feet on special Famara beach, my body seems to want to run without shoes again... The way I did in the very beginning.
As a little girl, I ran barefoot on the beach in Africa where I was born, and sped shoeless around the grass track at my Athletics Club 'Haslemere Border'.
And when I did first wear shoes they were very light, just protection for my feet really.
It isn't something I would necessarily recommend, but it is something I am enjoying. Within this journey I am experiencing my own deepening connection to me and to the Earth.
It has meant quite a big reduction in my running volume. I only ran ten times in October as I am spending a lot of my time doing strength and conditioning work for my feet and my body. Many drills and many 'steps ups', 200 each leg at a time, suggested by Matt Shore as part of the 'foot strengthening' programme...
And my running is feeling fun. A new pathway unfolding.
I loved running with my friends.
I loved celebrating my sister Rosy's birthday with her.
I loved every day I was there....
And then I flew to Switzerland with my wonderful Wendy friend, who I love and treasure. We have shared fifty four years of friendship!
Our five days in Lausanne were deeply rewarding.
We walked to the cathedral, we breakfasted high up overlooking Lac Leman, and later walked down to the sparkling waterside; we sat drinking coffee, sharing and talking together...
Wends had asked me to give her some healing, and to work with her to help her release from anything holding her back from her fullest expression.
What a privilege it was to be trusted in this way by my oldest friend who has known every twist and turn of mine along the path. To be seen by her for the gifts I have brought to share in this incarnation...
To share with Wends the work I love to do... And even in a few days, to watch her fly more free, more prepared than ever to express all that is within her out in the world.
The answers to all our problems lie within us. By letting go of our inner blocks, the truth of real self emerges and then the path reveals itself.
And of course whatever we heal in ourselves heals in humanity.
