finding center
-PARAGON-
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
-George Eliot
Materials- wool, leather remnants, leather cording, found sticks and shell piece.
On my morning walk yesterday, I became present to a jittery feeling of overwhelm. As I moved through my peaceful neighborhood, ideas and plans blurred into a frenzy in my mind. I felt over-caffeinated - sensitive, fatigued, almost paralyzed. And as I went about my walk with Max, I received a very clear visual, a waking dream. I was the center point and starting line of multitude of foot races branching out in all directions away from me. I heard the horn blow and the runners begin to fan out and away from me, each on the diverging line of their own separate race. I didn’t know what race to follow. I didn’t know how or what to think. Parts of me wanted to break free and just run for the sake of running. Other parts of me wanted run for cover, feeling unsafe as a lone fixture at the center of this visual play. And some parts of me just wanted to stand still, transfixed in disbelief.
When I got home, I went to my spirit council for a message as I sat with this image and the feelings it stirred within me. My guides told me to take space and become aware of the many races I might be running in, races that pulled me into the frenzy, the over-caffeinated state. They counseled me to look more closely and see if these races were even mine to run in anymore. I was shown that when strong intensity permeates the air, I can choose to tune into where the energy is landing in my body. I can determine if I am allowing that energy to push me to break free or to deny or repress something. Or I can choose to claim that calm center of the energy, that starting point where all the races branch out. I can sit with the energy at the center, the start, and I can learn.
How is the energy of this week landing with you? What are you noticing?
Much love to you and your spirit,
Sara
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