This article is a suggestion to simply notice.
Start here.
Exactly where you are.
Start here.
Start now.
Notice all subtle attempts to start “there”: When you’ve earnt enough, learnt enough, acquired enough, had enough coffee…
Notice attempts to claim personal control: ways of fixing, managing or avoiding certain situations or feelings…
Notice disassociation from parts of ourselves: mind, body, heart, past, relationships…
Notice rules we make up and restrictions we put on ourself…
Notice how we assuage our discomfort by trying to helping others…
Notice how we cry over sad stories about strangers, or imagine ourselves in their story, but might struggle to fully express feelings about things closer to us…
Notice when compassion moves from care to catharsis to self-pity…
You’re not getting it wrong, you just got scared of the feeling.
And, you got scared of the feeling because you aren’t clear on who you are.
That’s my job, to point people back home.
To the home we never left.
Always home.
With Love,
Sara
