Being Still is Moving Forward

I woke this morning with a more optimistic outlook and the body to match.  Relatively pain free movement is mine! Yesterday was different - see yesterday's post.

Yesterday I was perfect; it was perfect.  I know this.

Yesterday I asked the question: 'How can I move forward when all I want is to be still?'  Rumi shares with us: 'the answer is in the question'   So here is the answer:  'I move forward by being still' -- The answer also comes from my beautiful friend, Janet and my new brilliant friend Megan.  Who posted wonderful comments stating the same on my FB page.

Sometimes in the pain we get lost to what is real. What is real?  That all is well, this too shall pass and it is perfect.

I know I have written about this before, yet the pain pulls me in and I sometimes get lost.  Sharing was my way of helping myself and allowing others to help me as well.    Pain is fine, so I went with it, rode it through the day.  I was and still am grateful I had scheduled a clear day on Monday; I allowed myself to be in it with a few resisting thoughts (as per the blog post yesterday).   It may have moved through me, because today I feel good, my good.

I choose to see myself as healthy - and I move with the feeling of being well and as such lately I have been doing more; I am sure you have done the same a time or two. Yesterday's pain was overwhelming, intense and I was in shock - it was a visitor from a long ago time.  I am now glad I answered the door welcomed it in.  I had a brilliant a-ha this morning - the thought had crossed my mind before - however it now resides in me, a belief.  It is this: when I am busy all weekend, teaching, facilitating, doing more -- Monday is a time of rest and recoup. A gathering of wellness.  An integration  time, a release time - a nap day.  This fits perfect with my long held love of having Monday's off!

I was showered with love yesterday through supportive comments and healing actions.
Thank you.

One of my friends, Megan shared this beautiful piece from Paulo Coelho:

Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’

And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’

Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’

And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’

Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.Sometimes taking part in a great battle

But sometimes you can do that simply by smiling, for no reason, at someone you happen to pass in the street.

Without intending to, you might have saved the life of a complete stranger, who also thought he was useless and might have been ready to kill himself, until a smile gave him new hope and confidence.



Love to you