HEALING

What can we do to feel better? How many books can we read? How many specialists can we trust, how many tests shall we take? How many hypotheses shall we examine? How many extreme measures shall we take, to get better? How many truths shall we believe? There is no answer to these. What we have, is one life to live, at least in this realm. What we have is a miraculous body that performs as you read this, thousands of silent miracles. What we have is a brain, capable of manifesting what we believe and order it to be. What we have, are choices. Our magnificent freewill.

Can we trust our free will? Yes. Let us align ourselves with our higher power. Practice observing for a few seconds our thought processes. How does it make us feel. Whatever the thought is, how does it make us feel? Take another deep breath, hold your thought, and now exhale. Do you feel you have the answer for your next step to take? Is it moving you further or backwards? Can you move to a different direction, and explore the feeling of “uncomfortable”? Maybe that’s where the path goes. A new one. Call it a neuropathway, call it the road less traveled. We know where the other paths lead. We have been walking them for so long. Now it’s the time to get uncomfortable and be brave. Let us exercise our free will towards curiosity. That’s where our creativity lives. Let us create a new beginning. It is never too late. Our brain has the ability to reroute at any stage of our lives. Let’s use this.

Mental Health is such a talked about subject lately. We had to go through an induced isolation to realize how poorly we are doing mentally. We had to see our children and elderly in despair to realize that we are so fragile. We are not invincible after all. We looked out of our windows and all we saw was stillness and quietness. What a lesson to humanity. Go inside your home and be. In silence, alone inside your head. What a scary place to be for so many. The distractions that we have had, the influences of others in our lives. The accumulation of stuff that invaded us and now robbed us from our needed vital space. All this material stuff just laying around reminded us of all the places we couldn’t be. What we had left was ourselves. Our sliver of identity that was so confused and filled with external content. Who am I? What do I really care for? What really matters? Again, questions with many answers.

What I got from that experience is, realizing that we are so fragile. What I am practicing now is Gratitude. I am, after all, one of the many people that survived a pandemic. I will be able to talk to my grandchildren and tell them how there were wild animals walking through the streets. And how whales came the closest to humans when we were quiet. I will show them the pictures of humans helping each other from balconies playing their instruments to the isolated elders. I will talk about the adversity and the hope, and the Love.

Today I want to help. I want to keep sharing my stories and my empathy to others. I am aware that if my glass is not full I cannot share what’s inside. So I am prioritizing myself. Then I will give myself in love to others. I am practicing kindness and forgiveness to myself. I am only human. I am going to keep reading and getting inspired by others’ truths. I will keep believing in science. I will keep believing in my miraculous body and it’s ability to heal me and support me. I am honoring its various stages and I am being proactive. I will continue to make mistakes and I will keep learning from them. I will honor my wounds and try to heal them with love and compassion.