"Never Not Healing" - the post that never was and always will be :)
Some years ago this beautiful tree outside my window was brutally felled almost down to its trunk, breaking my heart. But it started to heal even as it was devastated. Here it is now with the setting sun reflected behind it, with the promise that it will rise again as night fades.
#nevernothealing
I am smiling at the thought that I never got down to making the post but the words themselves tell you that this message is confined neither in time nor space.
Here is the promised prequel to the post The Mother And Daughter Of All Arts -yes we writers often imagine something to be already written before we pen it down Available for you to actually read. This fulfills a promise I made to myself over a year ago. I mentioned this yet-to-be-written post in the initial document I released, announcing the vision and diverse offerings from SSH. A version of this document still floats around. In it I referred to this post lovingly like it had already been read by many. No doubt so many of you whom I’d brainstormed ideas with had already read it in my outpourings.
Perhaps this is how we create the future. We think of it as having happened.
All I do here is present a consolidated piece of writing with the essence of
themes I’ve already used as threads in weaving connections with people around
me in the cyber-verse as well as in person.
Quoting from the post The Mother And Daughter Of All Arts , started in 2021 and left in suspended animation through all my adventures in my personal healing space :
"You already familiar with the post "Never Not Healing" shared by me on the blog and the healing paradigms referred to. Healing is a continuum and a natural state in all beings as part of a universal rhythm. Sustaining this by tapping into and channeling the creative processes within us, that mirror the ones in the universe, is at the heart and soul of every offering here."
Do we even need this post, I ask myself, late as I have been in formally presenting the ideas to you? All we need is to awaken the awareness of what is already within us - you, and me in tandem with you, for every moment is a rebirth and a re-awakening for me as well.
Awaken!
Snapping those eyelids open in a semi-shock - or gently coaxing them open to permit the clear light of day to find its way in. Lying still as a sunbeam caresses you gently making you want to give in to its embrace. Whichever way, awaken we must after slumber. Awakening awareness within us is similar to our own waking up from slumber, and there are journeys that lead to it.
Two terms you will likely come across frequently in writings from SpiritSpiral Healing and in the course of sessions/workshops I offer, are "freewheeling" and "creative destruction". The latter happens in our individual "ecosystem" of body-mind-spirit without a pause as long as we are alive. I like to think parts of it continue to thrive and evolve or alter and decay over time even after we “shuffle
off this mortal coil”.
Freewheeling
is a word that came to me out of the blue when I encountered people showing
defensive reactions to any new or deviant idea that was expressed, especially at a time when we needed fresh and radical ideas, even really simple ones to end the morbid stagnation the world found itself in. The sort of self destruction that was the opposite of creative.
While lying around
daydreaming, the word "freewheeling" started playing in my mind. I
decided to delve a little and while I discovered so many definitions that were
about being irresponsible, I finally found what must have sent the word gently
spiraling through my mind's freeway in the first place.
Read this:
"Willing to experiment and
take risks by going beyond the usual rules or accepted ways of doing things" - I definitely tend to have that spirit myself. Ironically that’s the spirit that the ambience of the times has tried hard to
suppress, leading to numerous mental health troubles.
Best of all are these words:
"Freewheeling means the wilder the idea, the better. It is always easier
to tame an idea than to make one more exciting"
As for “Creative destruction” – I will hand the floor to you and would love to have your thoughts in
comments.
... to be contd ...
And I leave you with buds on the tree at dawn while Venus rises
