Feeling Limbic
Of all the days to start posting a blog…after the logical part of my brain got “hijacked” by the emotional part (the limbic system) after a deep spiritual journey of healing. And yet when I think about it, it’s the perfect day to start.
I’ve been sitting still a lot lately – making a daily trip (for about the last 4 months) to the ocean to sit, and I don’t mean to sunbathe, and just feel the presence of Our Mother Ocean deeply within me. It has been a spiritual ritual for me that has opened up a tremendous amount – inside and outside.
After a break-up last year on the day before Thanksgiving (Happy Holidays, Jean! Oy!), and struggling with intestinal parasites, I needed to just sit still, rest, and be quiet…. And wait….
Wait for what? I had no idea, but it was what I was being called to do, and do I did it. For a go-getter like me, it was not easy at first. Some days it still isn’t. I felt like I should be doing something; like I was being lazy. And yet every time I would ask the Universe what I was supposed to do, the message kept coming back clearly… Wait…
And then I realized, wait is a verb; an action.
The parasites have still not been willing to go away, and so I keep asking what they’re about…and I wasn’t getting answers…until today. I’m not sure it’s THE answer, but it’s an answer, and it’s about letting go – sorting what parts of my past feed me and what parts need to be discarded. And coincidentally, that’s exactly what the small intestine’s function is – to sort through the food and send the “good” stuff back into the bloodstream for nourishment and discard the crap.
And thus the title of my blog – Action Insights. It’s actually a psychodrama term for those moments in the course of taking action that produce an insight…some would call it the “aha” moment. By making the situation concrete through the action of a psychodrama, I get to see things and feel things that I was not able to see and feel before, and that’s the moment of the shift – the moment of opportunity that allows me to move in a different direction.
Sometimes it’s in the sitting still and waiting that the greatest insights can emerge.
And so I invite you to sit today. Find your ocean, or your mountain trail, or your bathtub, or wherever it is that you can find quiet, and wait…
Jean, Thank you for posting blog and reminding me how important it is to be still and listen to the guidance from within. I continue to use the mantra: “Let go and let God”. love & light, Reyna
Thanks so much, Reyna…it’s nice to know I have a fellow traveler on the journey…namaste.