My sister-in-law recently crossed over to the other side of the veil and I traveled home for her memorial service. I noticed during this trip, as I have when other family members have died, that when someone I care about crosses over to the other side, I can’t help but slow down my life and reflect about what is really, really important to me.
When I was in my worst pain and discomfort, I discovered exactly the same thing. I needed to slow down enough to reflect on what was truly important to me and let the rest go, because quite frankly, the “rest” was either making me sick or contributing to it.
While I was visiting friends back home, a woman I know that just had major surgery said exactly the same thing. Before she had her surgery, she ended the contract work she was doing that was draining her energy. She just didn’t want to do work that didn’t fulfill her anymore. She knew that she needed to focus on healing and then make some decisions about work that would feed her spiritually as well as physically.
It is so easy to stick with work just because it pays the bills, even though it is not truly our work to do. You can identify that kind of work because you go to work and come home from it more exhausted than energized.
It is so much easier to maintain status quo than it is to make peace with friends and family, find time to meditate, or enjoy time with others. It is easier to stay in relationships that are familiar, but aren’t working for you because it is scarier to heal or leave them. It is easier to repeat non-productive patterns than it is to make change, yet those very patterns may be shortening your life.
Yet, how are you supposed to stay healthy, when your energy is drained and you are stressed?
Once again, I find myself committing to paying attention to what is truly important in my life and making whatever changes I need to make sure that what I do fulfills me. Fulfillment is a powerful way to enjoy life more and put energy into my health.
How about you? If you made the time to get really still and clear, what is truly important in your life?
Tags: chronic illness, chronic pain, death and dying, holistic healing, natural healing, wholistic healing
A wonderful posting. We often resist change yet healing and change are one and the same. We often belive that the 'devil' we know is better than the one we don't so we maintain the status quo. Thank you for this loving reminder, I feel inspired to log off and into my wonderous life:)
To health and wellness:)
Maja
http://www.designingME.com
Indeed. It is too darned easy to just live with the status quo and complain about it. I know. I mastered that one years ago!