GREEN!!! My world is green and it makes my heart sing! After today’s walk about 5 minutes from my house, I was rejuvenated and could fully feel the pulse of life around me. Everything was just strikingly alive – the valley meadow, the hillsides, the swift flow of the run-off in the irrigation ditch – and me too! I had that sense of oneness that I can forget sometimes. That I was a part of this powerful world around me.
In the current world economy, I’ve been noticing how many teachers are focusing on skills and tools to shift our awareness. Perhaps it took the fear that’s being spread around about the economy and the hardships that some are feeling, to raise our attention to look at just what our little minds can do to us. I’m not immune. I certainly have had moments where I’ve been caught in the sticky web of feeling powerless and that there’s ‘not enough’.
What’s come to me recently is to stop resisting it. To let myself go with what’s happening and get really curious about it. One tool that I have is to ask myself, ‘Is it true?’ While initially I may be attached to being right about my negative thought, if I ask again, “Do you really know, 100% without any doubt, that it’s true?”, I find usually that I can’t hold onto my righteousness. How can I know beyond a doubt? That would surely be the height of arrogance. Then I can look at this untrue thought, that I’m believing and pay attention to how it’s making me feel. Generally not very good. Why would I continue to believe something that’s not only untrue, but making me feel small, ‘less than’ and helpless? We do it all the time though! Crazy, huh?
If I can move outside the box of my thoughts, I can imagine what I might feel/do/think or say if I never had that thought again. How would I shift? How would I have new eyes to see the landscape right in front of me? (These questions are from the work of Byron Katie, and we’ll be working with them on the upcoming Being in the Flow River Retreat June 18-22.)
I know that when I’m feeling the green pulsing of everything that’s alive, I leave the world of scarcity and arrive into a knowing I’ve had since my 20’s – that I am loved, and taken care of by something bigger than myself. You can name this whatever serves you best – I call it Spirit. I’ve felt it so many times but nowhere more than when I unhook from the world and step on the path of nature. Stepping through this doorway, I resonate differently – my creativity awakens more fully and I come to know a deep and calm well-being.
It’s through regular encounters with this Sacred Other that I build my resources within. This is what helps me to deal with the outer challenges I face each day. I know that each of us has to find out own way…our own answers to life’s questions – how do you do it? What path leads you home to your Self?
How do you reach your center within and stay held, between Earth and Sky?
I truly want to hear your story. And if you are struggling with it, please set up a conversation with me soon. The pulsing, green growing time of summer is perfect to bring your attention here. A Coaching relationship can provide the focus you need to reach this destination – the one that always been right beside you.
Coach Victoria
(970)259-9040
Victoria@truelifecoach.net
