15 Jul Bloom in the Attention of Grace and Attunement
Watching someone meet themselves, bloom in the attention of grace and attunement….
What a gift to be part of someone’s life in this way.
For many of us, that’s our role as healers, integrating the psycho-spiritual wisdom that we have accumulated through training, consultation, heartbreak.
That’s the mystery that occurs when we don’t know how to serve someone but we’re willing to be there, open-hearted, releasing who we think “they” should be so the full multi-dimensional being they are can feel safe to show up.
There’s no recipe for this kind of attunement.
There’s actually not even a “protocol” to follow (which is hard when the Unknown comes to visit and we want a sure way forward!)
Having protocols are important. Certainly necessary at various stages in clinical work.
AND — often when we’re in the unknown, despite the vast and very helpful training we’ve had, we rely on the protocol instead of attuning to who is there, with us.
We attune not just to the person that’s presenting themselves but attuning to the light that was wanting to emerge, that’s always been there waiting for the “right” environment to bring their light forward.
The kind of light that we all have, born of our soul not the personality.
It’s the kind of attunement that most of us with attachment wounding never had. It’s why it’s precious.
It’s also why cultivating that kind of attunement is absolutely necessary now in our world with its rapid fire vitriol.
In the years of refining – maybe more cultivating – my capacity to attune, I’m sensing we each can operate on a different wavelength, one that gives us access to the gossamer threads of the soul’s light. Allowing us to listen below the personality into the heartstrings of a person’s becoming.
It always moves me to tears, when I’m there with someone and later as my heart remembers them remembering who they are. Even now, I notice the moisture of tears writing this.
What a gift to see any one being pulled forward by something that wasn’t really clear, toward a reality that is not yet manifest.
I’m reflecting on you, whether you are a helping professional or not – wondering how you know, inside you, when you’re following the soul’s guidance led forward by the subtle tremoring of light?
What signals do you have indicating when you’re pushing forward with your personality, by the thoughts and imprints of who you’re supposed to be?
Or when you feel that subtle pause, in an unnamable moment, when you realize you or someone else is – or isn’t – connected to themselves inside?
What tiny flickering light is calling to you, urging you forward, requesting you to shed the fears that bind you?
How might you recognize the threshold you need…. want to cross in order to light up from inside, solid steady secure…embodying who you were always meant to be?
Who might you be if you listen… attune to that call.
My prayer, or blessing, or wish is that you trust the nascent courage screwed up inside waiting to release your gifts into our world.
My delight is not uniquely mine, that’s for sure.
It’s the sure steady delight all of us have in welcoming you, joyously celebrating the wonder of you as you come home to yourself.