Let people go through what they have to go through in the
present moment! They are tired and they want to rest. They are exhausted from
the fight, from the pretense and the lies, from having to hold everything in
and hold everything together and hold everything up, and great waves of energy
are now being released throughout their body.
Stay present with them. Waves of sorrow, hopelessness, fear,
shame and guilt are surging now. Let the energies rise up, let their whole body
vibrate and shake and quake if it must, let them wail, scream, roar, laugh,
cry, sh*t themselves if they have to. Offer them nothing but the greatest gift
of all: your fearless presence. Stay with them through each breath, each
motion, in every moment. Hold their hand, but don't try to fix them, change
them, stop them experiencing what they are experiencing, or give them premature
answers.
If you become uncomfortable, or feel like you want to rush
in and 'heal' them, or 'save' them, or 'fix' them, or prevent them from feeling
what they are feeling, or make everything 'okay' for them, own that - it's your
need, your discomfort, your fear, not theirs. Do not treat them like a victim
or an invalid. Do not confuse them with who you think they are. Honour the
power that moves in them; validate their experience totally. Trust the
unpredictable intelligence of healing, and know that their 'symptoms' may get
worse before they get better; energy may become more intense before it dies
down. What appears now as chaos and disintegration may in fact be necessary
release and intelligent reorganisation of a blocked system.
Sometimes our hearts need to break wide open so we are able
to hold more life, more powerful love. Let your warm presence remind your
friend of their own warm presence, so stable, so fearless, so free, so deeply
rooted, grounded, here. Know that who they truly are cannot be broken, not by
even the most intense energies, and cannot be fixed, and life never makes
mistakes even when life seems like a mistake.
Love is all that matters. The rain falls, stars explode in
silence somewhere out in the vastness of space, and here on this tiny planet
someone called Earth, sometimes we meet and hold each other.
~ Jeff Foster ~
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