Our body and senses are powerful tools to help us be grounded, connected and present.
We can spend a whole day at work on our computer and often forget we even have a body, as we are in our mind and the screen.
Remember to come into your body as often as possible!
Do things that make you feel good in your body. Take conscious breaths. Walk and feel your legs and the wind on your face, hear the nature and take life in.
We often have the idea that to get stronger we need to squash and conquer our feelings of weakness.
It takes more strength to sit with those suffering parts of ourselves than it does to try not to have them.
When we allow something, it can then move with the flow. When we resist something, we hold it in place.
Strength is inclusive of our vulnerability. With true strength we learn to stay present and remain loving with all aspects of our human self.
With expanding our awareness we can learn to observe our parts rather than be blended/identified seemingly at the mercy of and acting from them.
Work on yourself first.
When trauma occurs our psyche and our capacity to cope are completely overwhelmed.
Sometimes it’s not until years later, that we are faced with elements of our trauma arising from the unconscious in often very confusing and difficult ways, and we realise we need to do our healing work.
We need help to recognise and change the limiting protective patterns we have built around us and to gradually and safely bring loving connection to that in us that has been fragmented, suppressed, disowned, shamed or disconnected.
Trauma is not shameful, it is human and it takes courage to face. Anyone that does this inner work needs all the love and compassion they can get.
And in the end, the gift of healing work, is to deepen, to come more into your own heart, into self connection, into more authentic loving relationships, to know what you need and to find kindness, aliveness and recognition of the precious fullness of life.
Live meditation was held this evening on Instagram @ratnadyer. Available to access and view there.
My intention is to do one every two weeks, with the new moon and the full moon. So feel welcome to join.
Go slow to go fast.
We are a lot more effective and powerful when we are aligned with the pace of nature, our heart, and life around us.
Be in the timelessness of now, connected and alive with being.
Enjoy!
Be allowing and loving with whatever feeling arises within you, rather than imposing positivity on to yourself, negating or disallowing difficult feelings.
True kindness takes great courage and strength and includes holding clear, self respecting boundaries.
We have different levels of our being, our intelligence, our knowing. The mental level is very important of course, but sometimes the answer doesn’t lie there. We need our heart and our spirit and our opening up to the unknown, a letting go, for some of the most important answers to come through.
Learn to listen to the more subtle layers of your experience.
RATNA DYER 