Last night a good friend, Laurel Izard, called to share what
she received in her reading for me. The first thing that came through was my
Paternal Grandmother. I did not know my father's mother, but I remember being
at the home of my cousin, Eddie McDaniel, and having him show me a photo of
her. I was shocked that she looked like a Native American. Ed said no one
talked about it, but that she did have Indian blood.
Laurel's sense was that my Great Grandmother wanted to connect with me.
Another image that came through for Laurel was Woody woodpecker, which she interpreted as trickster energy around me. I certainly been aware of that!
Today's reading, in The Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo, "As a child I would talk to things—birds that flew overhead, trees that swayed slowly in the night, even stones drying in the sun."
Remembering the conversation with Laurel and now reading Mark's words, I find this all very interesting. I woke up this morning having a profound sense of the nonphysical support that has been with me in my recovery. I decided to give names for to my companions: Grace and Ease!
I have been completely aware that asking for support on a continual basis allows me to move with less discomfort, allows me to feel better physically, and even enables me to experience a greater sense of emotional stability. Even ordinarily very simple or mundane tasks: rolling over in bed; getting into or out of bed; sitting down on or getting up from the toilet; or picking up something I dropped--each of these is made significantly more or less difficult, by my forgetting to or remembering to ask for help.
Laurel's sense was that my Great Grandmother wanted to connect with me.
Another image that came through for Laurel was Woody woodpecker, which she interpreted as trickster energy around me. I certainly been aware of that!
Today's reading, in The Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo, "As a child I would talk to things—birds that flew overhead, trees that swayed slowly in the night, even stones drying in the sun."
Remembering the conversation with Laurel and now reading Mark's words, I find this all very interesting. I woke up this morning having a profound sense of the nonphysical support that has been with me in my recovery. I decided to give names for to my companions: Grace and Ease!
I have been completely aware that asking for support on a continual basis allows me to move with less discomfort, allows me to feel better physically, and even enables me to experience a greater sense of emotional stability. Even ordinarily very simple or mundane tasks: rolling over in bed; getting into or out of bed; sitting down on or getting up from the toilet; or picking up something I dropped--each of these is made significantly more or less difficult, by my forgetting to or remembering to ask for help.
I will actually say to myself, "Okay team, let's do this!"
When I read the quotation by Mark Nepo this morning, and thought about how Native Americans have always talked to Nature Spirits, I was also remembering my nurse, Francesca, telling us about her speaking in this way as she was growing up in Africa. She told stories of going out to the mango orchard, speaking to the gods of the mango trees, asking permission to pick fruit, then speaking words of gratitude.
This makes me think about the book, Behaving As If the God in All Life Mattered, by Machaelle Small Wright.
A friend stopped to visit with me the a few days ago. While he was here, he got that faraway gaze is his eyes, and his voice got quiet as he leaned toward me and asked me what would I most have learned from this experience that is valuable for him and for others.
The answer was simple: Ask for help. Expect that you live in a nonphysical support system—one that is ready, willing, and able to provide you with continuous support, but you must ask!
This is not a new awareness for me, having previously written about that subtle support system, but the sense of total grace and the ease of being that comes from feeling yourself supported is new, or maybe amplified.
Whether you think of your support as angels, guides, or simply the benefit of aligning with your own inner being, I wonder what a difference it will make if we experiment with how much more we can get out of life when you make Grace and Ease your constant companions.
This may just be the new world coming after the end of the old world tomorrow on 12/21/12....
When I read the quotation by Mark Nepo this morning, and thought about how Native Americans have always talked to Nature Spirits, I was also remembering my nurse, Francesca, telling us about her speaking in this way as she was growing up in Africa. She told stories of going out to the mango orchard, speaking to the gods of the mango trees, asking permission to pick fruit, then speaking words of gratitude.
This makes me think about the book, Behaving As If the God in All Life Mattered, by Machaelle Small Wright.
A friend stopped to visit with me the a few days ago. While he was here, he got that faraway gaze is his eyes, and his voice got quiet as he leaned toward me and asked me what would I most have learned from this experience that is valuable for him and for others.
The answer was simple: Ask for help. Expect that you live in a nonphysical support system—one that is ready, willing, and able to provide you with continuous support, but you must ask!
This is not a new awareness for me, having previously written about that subtle support system, but the sense of total grace and the ease of being that comes from feeling yourself supported is new, or maybe amplified.
Whether you think of your support as angels, guides, or simply the benefit of aligning with your own inner being, I wonder what a difference it will make if we experiment with how much more we can get out of life when you make Grace and Ease your constant companions.
This may just be the new world coming after the end of the old world tomorrow on 12/21/12....
