The Things We Carry
From me to you.🤍
The days have been disappearing in the midnight sun and endless family adventures aboard the Alaskan Gypsy. As I find a place to write I have two of the four children cozied up at my feet after a long day of sunshine and ocean play. It’s been a beautiful and busy couple of weeks. Summer is winding down. Besides the physical transitions taking place, there’s also the momma heart transition as the kids go back to school with their other parents.
When there are things to be done and life to tend to we often choose to “compartmentalize” or “put it aside” for later. It may be later that day that the retreating tide brings light to what needs to be seen, or it could be a lifetime of experiences crashing above the surface keeping the focus away from said experiences.
This is interesting from an energetic perspective. Consider each “heaviness,” we’ll just call it. Consider it within you….what does it feel like? A block? A heaviness? Tightness? Pain? Stuckness? Darkness? Anyway…consider it. Consider burying it because you’re busy. Because you can’t cry at the moment. Because you don’t want to explain to the 10 year old child the child wounding you’re simultaneously healing while actively parenting and teaching her? Where does it go? How long does it stay?
These are all interesting questions and contemplations when considering energy and illness. Physical manifestations give way to that stuck energy. Ailments and sickness can arise. Depression, anxiety, fear…it can lurk beneath the surface and color what we see beneath.
How do you tend to these energetic parts? How do we meet ourselves in a practice of healthy energetic hygiene?
It takes awareness. First off, paying attention. Are you reacting instead of responding? Taking your first thought or feeling and finalizing it as fact? Or are you practicing stillness, silence, and contemplation? Getting curious with ourselves is a beautiful, compassionate tool for moving energy or acknowledging when things don’t feel good within you.
Time for reflection, writing, intuitive physical movement, contemplative conversation, energy healing (distant or in person), touch, self healing. A body scan each morning, including a scan of your mental, emotional, and spiritual state. These are all tools we have access to.
Everything is energy. We are all connected. Everything moves. Whatever state we are in will not last forever. So take a deep breath. Tell the heavy part of you it’s okay to move. It’s okay to release. Find that lightness within and celebrate. Give her life. Give her breath. Sustained breath.
And remember, if you’ve been feeling a little stuck lately and would like support moving your energy or clearing any blockages, while I am at sea, I am available for distant Reiki sessions. We speak on the phone before and after the session, and access your healing during about an hour-long session where potent and beautiful transmissions occur.
Also, if you’d ever feel called to connect beyond these letters, I’d love to offer you a complimentary 30-minute Connection Call. It would be an honor to connect more deeply and simply see what unfolds.
Blessings,
Audrey