As this last post of Stress Awareness Month, I thought I’d look at the wisdom that we hold within ourselves.
Our bodies know how to be well, it’s just that often we have disconnected from that wisdom. If we can find a way to reconnect and re-member that wisdom (as Neale Donald Walsch might say) then we can rediscover our balance and wellbeing.
Every cell of our being holds a blueprint of how it is designed to function and what it needs in order to operate most effectively. When we can tune in to this and be fully open to allowing it, then the body will naturally find its way back to this pattern.
However, due to stress and the traumas that we experience in our lives (both ‘Big T’ and ‘little t’ traumas – and remember that these are very subjective and don’t always ‘make sense’ to our analytical minds) we can find ourselves not fully able to trust this process and allow our bodies to find the balance they were designed for.
We might have learnt patterns of behaviour which, originally, were put in place to help us feel safe, but over time they have become stifling and restrictive, actually stopping us from growing and becoming the happy, healthy, creative being we were designed to be.
The rules and expectations of our society can also seem to place restrictions and demands on us, limiting our choices or shaping us into a particular role, which might not actually be where our Spirit would choose to be.
So what can you do? How can you get back to the wellbeing and ‘flow’ that you were made for?
I believe that we can do this through reconnecting to Nature – both the Nature all around us, and to our own true Nature, in all its forms and colours.
A wonderful and wise woman once shared a song with me that had a great impact on how I saw myself and the life I was living. Sadly, it was many years ago and I long ago lost the recording and don’t have a copy of the exact lyrics, but it was about how looking at the sunset reminds us that our life is supposed to contain all the colours. We weren’t designed for a bland, monochrome existence, but for one that is full of bright, vivid colour. This encompasses all the emotions, both the ‘safe’ and ‘acceptable’ ones, and also the ‘scary’ and ‘ugly’ ones. We need to embrace them all and learn how to be a good steward of them, so that they don’t end up controlling us on some subconscious level.
I also think that it is very important to pay attention to the messages that we give ourselves, both through our words, and our body language.
One simple example, in regards to vocabulary is this:
