Be STILL!

Day 71: Geysers

"I understand to live joyously with others its best to love, value, and appreciate who I am at my core. In doing so, I can negotiate, navigate, and know the limits of my boundaries, which will serve me in making decisions that affect the whole."

I love this phrase above from the today reading in Season of Change. Over the past two plus weeks, I have experienced some health challenges. I have found myself without a voice. Those of you who knows me, you know that is pretty significant. To say that I am a verbal communicator is to say the very least about me. One of the things I ask all of my clients is "How do you learn?" A great many of us learn through pain, some through struggles, some adversity, and some from physical or health challenges. I think you can see where I am going with this.

How we learn is how we learn, and the sooner we become aware of how we learn we can then find the road map to listen and look for the signs along the way. Two weeks ago, I visited with my mentor and one of the things that come forward for me in that session was the fact I was feeling burned out. I have always been the person who is willing to give 150% of myself to any project that I take on. I love that about myself. It is important to note that today I understand the need for balance. I am also aware that many times we take on more than we have or need too.

One of the greatest lessons that I have learned over the last two weeks is that it does indeed get done. I was able to call on two dear friends who stepped up and spoke in my absence at Amor. My beloved led the treatment calls and another wonderful friend led meditation. I had expressed to my mentor that many times I feel as if I am doing things alone. What I know to be true today is that some of that is by choice.

Realizing that I learn through health challenge has allowed me to look at the signs along the way. When I fractured my foot, it was because I was unwilling to ask for help with the decor for the holidays two years ago. Which led to me wearing a boot for 8 to 10 weeks and being unable to move around with ease and grace. During my cancer experience is where I learned to love myself at my core. The lesson I am learning in this time of silence is "Be STILL!" Be still long enough to allow something, or someone to come forward. Be still long enough to allow the things you want to appear without you having to do them. Be still and listen to the voice of your soul. Be still and allow the silence to speak wisdom to you.

Each of us learns our own ways. That is a good thing. Once we know how we learn we then have found our learning curve and can better work with it. Learning to be still and allow the wonders of the universe to show up for me this last two weeks had been a challenge for me. Yet today I sit here with the knowledge that has helped propel me forward and I am very grateful for that. Look at me learning something new.

I love you,

Thank you,

Rev Allen