Surrendering into family

So much to share, so much that could be said here and yet . . . I am viscerally present to the calm peacefulness of being always there all the time. After a beautiful movement exercise led by Facilitator Mary Chase we welcomed a guest speaker, Lee Glickstein, a presentation skills coach and author of the book "Be Heard Now." Lee teaches what he calls "relational presence" which is essentially a spiritual practice. Anyone who studies Buddhism, yoga, tai chi, presence practice (Eckhart Tolle), tantra and other forms of meditation as well as members of traditional indigenous cultures know this experience well. He brilliantly relayed how the practice he teaches drops us immediately into deep connection to ourselves, one another and the field of life energy we are immersed in all the time.

In this space we surrender to the moment, we release into being held energetically by Pachamama. Connecting to a partner through the eyes, the heart and the soul we feel deeply that we are family, each of us part of the human family and connected to one another. This pratice provides an opportunity for me to receive the gift of my innate connectedness and I am free from the anxious seeking of it through reaching out to another through my eyes, my energy, my words. I can just relax into the beingness that both share, there is nothing to do, nothing to say, only a profound experience of love and the filling up of the sense of emptiness inside.

I encourage anyone who reads this to choose this moment (all there ever really is) to share yourself with another person by just being with them, gazing into their eyes in quiet connection. If there is no one accessible now then get up and step outside, and allow the life energy pulsing in nature to come to you, let it in, feel the ecstatic love of the universe that is everyone just waiting to be embraced by you.

Know you are connected to this family, the community of the Awakening the Dreamer Initiative and we welcome you.

Blessings, Eve