Inrageous/Outrageous Self-Care Enchantments for September 25, 2008

Inrageous/Outrageous Self-Care Enchantments for This Week

 

I am very aware that this blurb in not intended to be about me, it is intended to be about you.  Yet, the only life that I can speak about with any assuredness is my own, everything else is projection.  So, may I continue to speak from my wonderfully wounded heart?  It truly is perfect that I can literally feel a soft little tender wounded place in my heart.  The tenderness reminds me of so much!

 

I used to think that a spiritual path involved a challenge or initiation, completion of the challenge and then mastery.  This was my interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s writing of a “hero’s/heroine’s journey”.  Another way of saying this is that I thought that a major life crisis provides a doorway into deeper spiritual growth and that we each get one of these per lifetime.   I think this is a very “western” view. I had already had my “challenge” with a huge family crisis many years ago, felt that I was on my way towards mastery and see how my interpretation was incomplete and one-dimensional.

 

What is perfect about both my husband’s recent health issues involving almost dying and a serious diagnosis and my heart attack is that our lives have been shaken up so completely and so totally that there is no choice but to re-evaluate everything.  We are face to face with “the fear of death.”  This has resulted in me expanding my view and belief about spiritual life and in fact, the meaning of life.  I realize that I had used my good health, my husband’s good health, my relative youth (I’m 51), our 2 income status, to give me a sense of security and perhaps pride or entitlement.    We had a plan and it was working!  Feeling like the “rug has been ripped out from under my feet” has been scary, no, terrifying.  All the awful, horrible feelings, images and fears that I had kept solidly stuffed down inside a hardened heart are free.  I have come face to face with my fear of “being a bag lady”, a single parent, a disabled person, homeless, a widow.  How perfect!  I am so far away from life mastery that I can laugh and chuckle and my, how expansive and gentle and funny (in an honouring way) this feels. 

 

Your self care enchantments if you chose to this week, are about further exploration of “you” and developing deepening “unconditional friendship with yourself”.

 

Self Care Enchantments for the week:

 

1.  Explore when you feel secure and when you feel insecure?  What contributes to your security?  What if it was no longer there?

2.  How do you feel about your heart, is it hardened in any way, do you feel you are protecting an area of your heart?  Play with the images of a cold, hard, rigid heart and a soft warm melted heart.

3. In preparation for Thanksgiving, on a daily basis “give thanks” for something difficult in your life and observe the results. 

 

“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in beauty and joy each day.”

 

– Native American Proverb

 

Please share about your learning and exploration with these enchantments on www.thepowblog.com in the comments section of these enchantments!

 

namaste,

 

Zoey

 

Zoey Ryan

coach . catalyst . shakti sage

life & business coach for women

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