09 Apr What lies underneath the pain?
As I’ve gone through the hundreds of responses people sent to me, hearing the pain that we are in as human beings, the suffering that we encounter, and the triggering that happens as we heal, I listened deeper.
I started “listening” underneath the pain, listening to what was there all along.
This thread, quiet and clear, kept rising up reading responses, and listening to people in the Safely Embodied courses and the Learning Community.
I heard it again in my meditation this early morning requiring me to listen to the energy without story, content, occurring instead as waves, a pulsing emitting a melody without words.
Sounds nebulous, right?
It streams on the longing people have to no longer be in pain, to have life be different.
Hope is carried on this vibration, living underneath the stories, worries, and fears of our lives.
Have you had the experience of catching a truth fall out of your heart?
Rising from the soul and spilling out of the mouth?
Later you realize, oh, this is what I was supposed to say. That is what I believe and know to be true.
This peripheral experience snuck in through the back door during an interview I gave to a lovely Australian, Todd Zemiak, who is leading a course on yoga and trauma. My soul (or something) wasn’t going to let me get through this interview without saying this.
So, it fell out of my mouth and I recognized the words as pointers to what I know and have learned to trust.
If I’m listening, deeply, as each of us listens to ourselves, attuning to this gentle, uncompromising guidance inside we can hear/sense/attune to our life force energy moving us toward a more fulfilling life.
This life force, we call prana in yoga, is consistently and persistently pressing us to listen and hear that life can kinder, easier, we can be more content.
It does require, though, that we let the pain clean our hearts, clearing the internal debris so we can find the direction.
But the nascent song that is carried on the melody of hope is that the healing path doesn’t have to be as hard as it is.
It can be softer and gentler if I, if we, learn self-compassion, learning to be kind to ourselves, learning to listen to our bodies instead of steeling against what happens in our bodies.
We hear stories of ancient ones who found their way through.
It always sounds so elevated. What helped them shift out of their pain is that they were surrounded by community who believed in the path through, and those on the path got held in the community.
If we live in a world where pain is so heavily emphasized, life becomes hard and often unbearable. Learning to listen to the deep rhythms of life can provide a path through, making life a more fulfilling experience, providing gentle comfort, easing the mind, calming the body, and softly opening the heart.
We need to cultivate that field of kindness and compassion, providing community for each other, so that that field of goodness includes each one of us, providing safe harbor for our bodies, hearts, and souls.
With gratitude to you for being part of that community, creating a field of goodness, kindness, and compassion in which we can all remember our true nature. I’m deeply grateful.
Sending goodness,
Deirdre