Osho has said that we create our way when we walk.
Sometimes we stop walking, confused as to which way is forward.
Yesterday my ankle started to feel a bit tight and I was reminded how physical symptoms are messages. What is my Achille’s heel? What is my weakness and how is that preventing me from moving ahead with my life?
I have done some deep excavations. When I think I’m up for a break, something else shows up. It has been relentless emotionally. Outwardly it may seem like I am being unproductive. Inwardly much is shifting, as I sift through the past and work with the deep woundings where I have been cracked open.
While many people walk alongside me, this is a a solo walk. One step at a time. I alone know what this one step is. We are clear channels, when we are clear. This popped into my head the other day while out walking my dogs. Movement is good. Walking clears the mind, running water down the head in a shower clears the mind…
We can always take one step at a time. Someone recently reminded me that if that step feels too much, it is not the next step. It may be many steps masquerading as one or perhaps it is really five steps ahead of what really is the next step. Often it is hard to take that next step because we believe we should be elsewhere, we should be moving faster, or the landscape should be different already. All these should’s. Very unhealthy and not supportive at all. So stop listening to everyone and don’t get distracted by all the voices inside your head.
We can our worst enemy. Or we can choose to be our own best friend.
We confound ourselves, and then we look outward for help when all this time, what we need to know is inside, inside our feelings. Going in, we find what my friend calls a inner treasure chest and that is exactly what it is. A treasure chest filled with the gems of our radiance, strengths, vulnerabilities, compassion, and all those qualities that allow us to rise and rise and rise, over and over again. And also to know when to lay still in the wombspace to allow the Hand of Time to move over us with the healing of the void.
