This week, as our vacation at the lake nears its end, I found myself listening again to Caroline Myss’s Advanced Energy Anatomy. One of most fascinating points Myss makes, is the idea that every part of us is continuously co-creating our life. Every part of us, from our higher self, our rationality, our education – to our unhealed wounds, our fears, and “our shadow side,” our unconscious wishes and motivations. “Every fragment” is co-creating the experiences that we call “our life,” co-creating the experiences we need to have in order to learn and grow, and to walk the path we came here to walk. As my friend Erin Geesaman Rabke might add, some “more skillfully” than others.
To me, this image of fragmented co-creating is yet another reminder of how important it is to do the inner work we need to do to become whole, or to put it better – to return to our original wholeness. There are so many scrapes we receive in this life, so many challenges we all face. No one reading this today has escaped disappointment, loss, difficulty – what Hamlet calls, “the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.” It’s easy to feel fragmented, and pulled in different directions by our hopes and fears, our scars and aspirations. Is it any wonder that manifesting something coherent and good takes time?
When we disown pieces of ourselves, or when we carry with us the “weight” of heavy attitudes such as anger, grief, or resentment, without honoring ourselves by listening to them, resolving them, and clearing them from our system, our ability to creatively co-design the life we want to live is greatly diminished. As Myss puts it, the more we carry that “weight,” the longer we have to “wait” to manifest our fullest and highest potential.
Many practices – Yoga, Chi Gong, relaxation, even simply sitting quietly for a few moments at the start of the day – can help us reclaim the sacred ground of our own being, our center, our sense of wholeness.
One of my favorite practices for clearing away the “weight” of heavy attitudes and returning again and again to original wholeness is Jin Shin Jyutsu.
So today, I’ll share a short, relaxing audio practice with you, as a special thank you for being a “Living Joyfully” subscriber. You can access it from the Radiant Energy for Life website by clicking here. I hope you enjoy it.
Have a wonderful day!
Erin