Life is a dance.
It might be more accurate to say life dances. Dance isn't something we do. Dance is something we are.
When we dance, we connect with a field of movement. We don't just move, we can connect with the fundamental way life moves, births, blooms, changes, dies, transforms, pauses, pulses, creates, discovers, and blooms again.
We aren't the first to dance, and we won't be the last. Even if humanity extinguishes itself, life will still be dancing on this planet.
A favorite contemplative wondering is: How can I join the dance of my own body, my own heart, my own calling, my own life?
When we align with life in that way, we can co-create tectonic shifts in our lives and world.
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Life is a Dance
Trauma is life energy that freezes, holds, or stops moving when faced with a situation that our autonomic nervous system (an automatic physiological response) classifies as life threatening. This action protects -- or attempts to protect -- us.
While life exists, the possibility of healing exists too.
Like springtime after a long, cold winter, the buds of life bloom again, and for those who are willing, the possibility of healing exists.
Just like the seasons, life is always moving.
When we feel emotional pain that has a disproportionate intensity to it, we are contacting the energy that once couldn't move through.
Life wants to connect.
Emotional pain is a funny thing. So often it's not about what we think it's about, although that doesn't make the experience of hurting any less real. The emotional energies within long to be presenced, held in compassionate awareness. We humans are wired to connect with ourselves and each other.
We are made of compassionate awareness.
However entrenched or stuck we may be, with compassionate, connected support, gradually the trauma re-emerges to be felt through, allowing the energy to move again.
Movements of Healing -- Choose Your Verb(s):
meeting how you are,
listening,
connecting,
participating with,
breathing,
feel-thinking,
loving,
creating,
collaborating,
expressing in a non-linear way through art, vocal expression
and dancing. I saved the best for last.
While life exists, the possibility of healing exists too.
Like springtime after a long, cold winter, the buds of life bloom again, and for those who are willing, the possibility of healing exists.
Just like the seasons, life is always moving.
When we feel emotional pain that has a disproportionate intensity to it, we are contacting the energy that once couldn't move through.
Life wants to connect.
Emotional pain is a funny thing. So often it's not about what we think it's about, although that doesn't make the experience of hurting any less real. The emotional energies within long to be presenced, held in compassionate awareness. We humans are wired to connect with ourselves and each other.
We are made of compassionate awareness.
However entrenched or stuck we may be, with compassionate, connected support, gradually the trauma re-emerges to be felt through, allowing the energy to move again.
Movements of Healing -- Choose Your Verb(s):
meeting how you are,
listening,
connecting,
participating with,
breathing,
feel-thinking,
loving,
creating,
collaborating,
expressing in a non-linear way through art, vocal expression
and dancing. I saved the best for last.
The next class is October 10, 2019.
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