Healing happens when it’s ready, with our patience and kindness

Waiting. Patience.

Yesterday I wrote about finding a place in my abdomen that felt cool in my Biodynamic Meditation. It condensed into a round shape maybe 2 inches in diameter.

It felt like old, stagnant, stuck fear, an iciness from who-knows-which young experience, maybe several.

I wondered if this was a place in my system that the healing energy would return to, helping it heal.

In today’s meditation, I felt radiance at my face, Tide, and healing energy slowly moving in my abdomen.

I felt the condensed energy again. It wasn’t as cold as it was yesterday. The healing energy stayed there for a while, like it was settling in with its attention.

Healing always happens in the present, no matter when the energy became stuck.

Healing cannot be forced. It happens when it’s ready to happen.

We can help it be ready, with our awareness and by simply allowing it to be as it is, with kindness and patience.

Some of our stuck energies have been with us for a long, long time, protecting the rest of our systems from chaos. They serve us until they are no longer needed.

Photo: Copied from somewhere online, honoring our tree brothers and sisters so many of whom were reshaped by the recent ice storm in Austin. The branches that remain intact will fill in the empty spaces and grow.

Expand your patterns of awareness so that more life can unfold for your appreciation

Yesterday I shared the 12 states of attention … useful tools in Biodynamic Meditation and in life.

It helps to notice your own patterns of awareness and expand beyond them, as well as appreciate them.

You may notice that some people are primarily visual. Some are primarily externally oriented. Some are drawn more to details.

You can cultivate the states you are not so familiar with, and you will have more attentional flexibility … a key factor in appreciating life.

And … there’s always more.

This morning I’m focusing on another aspect of attention that’s important in meditation and in life, and that is … waiting.

When you bring your attention to your central energy channel, in order to sense the Tide ascending and descending, you will usually need to wait for the sensation of internal motion to make itself known.

Then you may sense something, but it isn’t clear, and you wait some more for it to clarify.

It’s a process of inquiry…of being curious and deciding to investigate by bringing your attention there…and waiting for indications of the Tide to be felt.

This is patience. This is allowing. This is staying with.

This is life, unfolding for your awareness.

Photo taken by Louise Thayer, Happy Dog Ranch. (Thanks, Louise!)