Last Friday the telegroup “Turning Relationship Hell To Heaven” met for our fourth session, out of eight. What a wonderful group of inquirers!
One thing several people on the call commented on were the strides they feel they are making in their internal inquiry as they connect with others, as opposed to the time they’ve spent doing The Work all by themselves.
Ooooh boy, do I know that one.
Sitting by myself, even after all these years, my mind wants to move as fast as a runaway train.
Sitting with my own mind also reminds me of Einstein’s famous quote that “no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
DOH!
I know this is one of the reasons I am in this profession, doing this facilitating, being with others.
My own mind, left to its imagination, creativity, nuttiness and tendency to go off the rails gets back on track speedy quick with the presence of someone else.
I can empathize and relate to everyone who comes to be facilitated. I have never found someone who has had thoughts that I have not had. And the wonderful part is that they come along with their thoughts and bring them to my door, and I LOVE the opportunity.
I don’t have to wait to go through that experience myself. I don’t have to live through it first hand, like they did. I hold the space with them, and we look together.
It’s completely selfish. Someone comes to me, and I feel so honored and happy to sit with them in whatever dark, awful, horrible pain they are experiencing or picturing or living in…because with TWO of us…the questions get answered.
I’ve said it before, but it’s one of my favorite quotes from the bible “where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst”.
The “I” of course being christ, the mysterious, the center, the divine, the holy, the sacred.
Amazing. Eye-opening.
In Buddhism, this is called sangha. A group journeying together.
Today, if it appeals, allow yourself to speak with great honestly to someone else on the planet. If you want to do The Work, call the Help Line (www.thework.com) or call someone to facilitate you. Email me to set up a session.
Or sign up for a class (just look at the long list below!)
Or come to Breitenbush Hotsprings and hang out with an amazing group of individuals who are ready to dive in to questioning beliefs about being here on the planet in a body…all the dangers, turmoil, worry, pain, sickness, trauma, imperfections, consternation.
I love that it doesn’t ultimately matter what you are looking at…whether its a body, or a person, or money, or the vacuuming….if you feel sadness or fear or anger when you look, then there’s an opportunity there to do The Work.
“Taking refuge in the sangha means taking refuge in the brotherhood and sisterhood of people who are committed to taking off their armor. “~Pema Chodron
Love, Grace
P.S. Another workshop coming up in Seattle May 3-4 that combines The Work, the body and movement (Nia) and emotional healing using Systemic Constellations. More on that soon. It will be an awesome powerful sangha.