I used to think that healing through meditation meant that I needed to strive to be zen-like...to be calm in the face of chaos...unbothered like the lotus flower. I'm finding that to not be the case. I want to sing louder as I heal. Dance wilder. Be more direct. More honest. Love deeper. Feel more fully. I'm gaining these things slowly as I continue to practice my practice. My perception of what it would be like was far from the reality. I've learned to be more accepting of situations. Respond different. Not dwell.
I received a message from a dear friend that said "Welcoming everything that comes to us is the challenge. This is the secret to being fully alive."
The topic was grief, but these Good Words wrapped around my mind and I knew that they applied to it all. This walk we call our lives, strolling through the joys and sorrows, the ebb and flow of circumstance, choice and outcome. It's all a lesson. It's all teaching us. And I've learned the most from the worst of it. I love the concept that welcoming it all-that which we deem bad, negative, undesirable, right along with the "good", positive and stuff we want more of-is the challenge. Every emotion. Every feeling. Every experience. Even our judgements. Welcome them. This is the secret to being fully alive. Not escaping, numbing, rejecting, or pushing away. Welcome it all. FEEL IT ALL. It won't kill you. These feeling can't eat you. The only way out is through, and going through will take you on the ride of your life.
You're doing great. You can't do YOU wrong. Love you
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