A Safe Home

Our bodies are perfectly safe.  They are our only homes in this life.

Healing is a unique process to each of us, of reoccupying the safety and at-homeness of our bodies, the bridging of the divide between the life of the mind and the life of the body.  As healing goes on, as deep as we choose, the bridge disappears and we are simply whole and fully alive, free to be our non-strategized selves.  There is no conflict in that, only generous truth. 

I find out over and over that healing is a creative discovery, and I don't have to wait until I'm dying to remember my wholeness, to feel and to know.  Without this body, where would I be?  And as long as I'm here, why not be fully alive?  Not scary alive, running mania type thing.  Fully alive.  It comes down to choice.  That's the free will in life.     

There is nothing wrong with you or me.  I'm saying this because I know it's true, not because I believe it might be true.  And pain is not an indicator of wrongness, I know it as an indicator of love, that something needs care.  In any moment of pain in the body, old or new, it can spur separation and worry, an unsafe feeling.  Try allowing consciousness to include the pain and expand, feel the love that is always with you, right there in your safe home. 

If you just fell off a roof and you feel pain, the love will allow you to yell for help.  If you just cut your finger, the love will grab a cloth and compress the cut to stop the bleeding, and allow you to look to see if you need stitches and follow through with the need.  If your family shuns you and your heart is crying at the loss of connection, allow the love within your own body to bring you wholeness right here and now.  Allow your own mind and body to live together, and allow the present flow within you to maybe even have no need for a bridge between mind and body.  Maybe choose to discover that you are unconditionally whole and be comforted in your safe home.

The safer we become in ourselves, the safer we become for all, and the safer our world.