Becoming hollow
-DAKOTAH-
“Cuz you were born to change this life.
You were born to chase the light…”
-Cloud Cult
Materials- wool, found stick, leather remnants and fish fly.
I’ve been reflecting on how the collective energy has been landing in my body and life lately. I have felt clogged and stopped by the energy. I recently decided to re-commit to my daily ritual of grounding myself and speaking out my intention for the day before my feet hit the floor from bed. Through this personal commitment, I have begun to reshape my relationship to this heightened energy.
On Monday something shifted and I had access to see how I can actually harness this collective energy and use it to propel me in my daily intention. Heck, the energy is coming regardless, and I no longer have room for allowing it to stall me. I let the sensation of this sink in on Monday. Then on my evening walk with Max, Woodpecker flew by, landed on a tree and said, “Hollow out your tree.” I laughed to myself. My spirit council had just called me out the day before saying that I wouldn’t be able to proceed with certain work with the emotion and memory I was carrying in my heart. We certainly are containers and don’t always hold what will foster ourselves into our highest and most authentic selves.
For me, hollowing myself is daily life-long work. I have seen that if I am not actively working on becoming hollow, then more and more energy gets trapped, clogged and lodged in me. I can become more vulnerable to unhealthy attachments, falling into old patterns and living in and out of distorted thoughts of myself and others. In some of the worlds of shamanism the term Hollow Bone is used.
Hollow Bone can be defined in a number of different ways and the journey of becoming hollow is unique for each of us. I see Hollow Bone as a frequency of awareness that can be reached through turning to face and greet all aspects and expressions of myself, even my shadows. I witness them, embrace them, listen to them, healing them and most importantly identify them as only parts of me and not the truth of my being, not who I am. I see hollowing as the creation of space between stimulus and response. For me it is a practice of rooting with Mother Earth and reaching out to Source to be a pure conduit for compassionate spirit’s message and healing.
My personal Hollow Bone path calls on many modalities from therapy, to meditation, to shamanic healing, to music and nature practices, dancing and exercising, to herbs, supplements and body work. It takes the village for me. What about you? How are you becoming hollow? Would you like some support?
Much love to you and your spirit,
Sara
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