We live in an age where we have so many different ways to Connect, and yet many people are feeling the heartache of disconnection more intently than ever before. There are those who say the Internet and technology are the very best things to ever enter this world, and others who say nothing worse has ever befallen humanity. Maybe it's a matter of perspective and how we use these great advances we have made in the ability to Connect our world. In the West, we have the capacity to Connect via the world wide web available to us pretty much wherever we go, at any time of day or night. Sometimes this does not feel like a good thing, but what if we were able to begin to use it in a more positive way?
It is well known that what we put out, we get back. What if we all began to use this amazing web for positive/supportive connection and to empower us to feel a part of, rather than using it as a platform to compare ourselves with everyone else and judge ourselves against them? How many times have you been scrolling social media and wished you had someone else's life? Or sat there feeling "better than" when you see what others are putting out there? Both ends of this scale perpetuate disconnection. They create a feeling of separation, of "I am different." Whether we are saying "I am worse" or "I am better", the focus is on the places of disconnection rather than connection. What if we were able to nurture a different attitude? What if we began to look for the places we DID connect? What if we began to come from the place of knowing that often what we let others see may not be how we really feel, and what they let us see may not be their inner reality either...
This is a place to practice and explore wholehearted connection and expression, learning to show up as you are, how you are. By supporting healthy expression and authentic healing work, we are working to nurture connection with ourselves, with others and with this beautiful world we live in. (Visit the Silence Space for some visual reminders of what is out there...) When we approach life as a multitude of opportunities to connect, then suddenly there is opening, there is space. Where there was loneliness and a feeling of scarcity, suddenly there is community and abundance. We invite you to be a part of our Connection...
I love how much all these suggestions are about honouring the feelings as they are and being courageous enough to actually FEEL them rather than deny them or try to get away from them. One of my favourite quotes is from The Manual of the Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho, and it is about ending up in what feels like the Same Place you have ended up many times before:
“I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”
If we are not willing to go through, we never get beyond, we just stay in the quagmire trying to fight the mud of the monkey mind. If we take a deep breath, take care of ourselves, face ourselves (with or without help/facilitation) we get the opportunity to go beyond, and to breathe that little bit freer than we did before...