As the unwinding in my head progresses ever nearer to completion, times are both trying and exciting. Trying because the tugging and pulling hurts and keeps me from sleeping. Exciting because my face is already so much more open than at any point in memory and I can imagine how great it will feel when it’s completely relaxed.
I’ve mentioned occasionally in recent months that I feel something light and bright in this opening. Recent releases have left me in a generally more optimistic and happy place than I usually hold With the ongoing sleep issue, I run into people who can’t understand why I can’t sleep and who believe that if I just said the right affirmation or held the right vision of all this unfolding some different way, I could make it all stop.
Trust me, if repeating an affirmation, creating a vision or asking the Universe to give me a new healing plan could have changed the course of all this, the path would have taken a turn long ago. Somewhere in the last couple of years, I finally just surrendered to this process and let it rule my life. Only in the last week, though, did I reach a place of thankfulness.
I’m a control freak. While my mind knows perfectly well that I can’t in fact control everything in my life, some deep part of me has held on to the illusion that I can. What a gift the Universe has handed me by choosing a healing path that’s crazy and out of my control. It’s helped me to let go of so much.
I’ve had some vivid dreams and plans toward which I worked for a long time. The end game is no longer clear and I’m content to ride out this healing journey and let the new come together when the time is here. For most of my life not knowing what comes next would have driven me nuts. For most of my life this crazy unwinding journey would have inspired a frenzy of “action plans” to fix it.
Instead, I’m just thankful that something–including a lot of healing work of many sorts from me and others– unleashed this wild ride to healing. No one I know has seen anything quite like it, many don’t believe it’s happening and I just ride along the ups and downs with faith that I am healing whether or not it makes sense to anyone else.* I’ve come to trust the tangible progress and I can see and feel that something bigger than me is directing.
I’ve felt for a long time that the rigid, criss-crossing, intertwined muscles had something to do with holding my life in old patterns. I can feel the patterns releasing as the muscles heal. I can feel it’s leading somewhere new. I’m fine with letting it unfold without my mind conducting
This week, looking at all this I’m thankful this out-of-control journey has led me to let go, to accept this process as what is and to have faith that wherever it’s leading, all will be well.
Thankful Thursday post.
* That was an early benefit of spiritual practice and the journey — after a lifetime of caring too much what others think, somewhere along on the road I turned into a person who mostly doesn’t give a crap what everybody else thinks — and what a relief that is!
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Finding you is worth all of that and more Leigh. I bow to the realisation of your journey. Namaste
That’s so nice — thank you!
Happy that your path is moving in the direction you desire. Confess that it took me several reads to follow but then it struck me that it graphically it reminded me of Feynman diagrams (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram) maybe in the complex is where physics and the spiritual collide (pun intended) regardless both collisions create energy and light!
Trying to weave together so many threads from my past into what’s happening now — probably shouldn’t have done it in a post I had to do in a hurry (to get it up on Thursday… Not much of a scientist; if you say the form is like a Feynman diagram, I’ll take your word for it 🙂
And I am thankful for you for sharing your journey and reminding me to surrender, and surrender, and surrender, and hand it over, and let the growth and evolution, whatever it looks like, just happen the way it wants to happen. Thank you ❤
Hugs and love
Alison
Thanks so much!
As a recovering control freak, I think I understand. I used to believe I could fix anything. For me chronic illness and no stable career has forced me to move with my body’s needs and live with the great unknown.
I am so happy to hear about your continued healing and your insights into the patterns of “condition”.
I wish you restful, peaceful sleep and love,
Linda
Similar paths you and I — chronic illness has left me with unsteady income for many years. Long enough to see that I’ve been miraculously taken care of all this time and have faith that this all leads to a life that’s not so full of struggle. Thanks for the good wishes!
Leigh it is so good to hear that it is progressing to an open and free place….
Much love~
Namaste
Thank you!
❤ Hugs ❤
Leigh, I too have struggled with my physical being for as long as I can remember. It has always resonated with me that the physical is the last place the healing occurs in us. Congratulations on moving into such an obvious time of completion on all levels. Your journey provides hope.
That is so nice to hear– thanks! I like the way you put it – physical as the last place healing occurs. I’ve been saying for a while I feel like this is already done on other levels, just finishing up on this plane still..
I am so glad you are heading towards healing. Having a grateful heart is part of any healing process and helps drive away negativity. Thank you for sharing your Thankful Thursday post.
~ Mar