The senses are powerful. They dominate how we experience the world. When the senses are not held in awareness, they pull us from one distraction to the next, so quickly that we hardly have space to feel anything, to be with anything.

The senses held in awareness have a sweetness, a poetry to them. Drawing that deep way of being into our own internal landscape, listening in a multi-sensory way to what is really alive in our bodies, minds, and hearts can be a revelation. We can hold whatever we find with real tenderness and care. The truth is that nothing can heal the way your own kindness and love can. We have access to that deep self care when we bring all of ourself into our own inner space. When we make space for our thoughts and feelings to be just as they are.

It can be helpful to open to the energy of thought and emotion, instead of focusing on the particulars. It can be a great, deep practice to work with the particulars but it can also be beneficial to let the experience wash over you. To feel the movement as energy in your system. This can help you create the space between what arises and the stories you inevitably tell about it. We begin to see how even those stories have an energy, a tone, a mood. We begin to hold them lightly. To be less quick to accept the stories as truth. The information we get from sensing in this way is real and valuable and can lead us to deep compassionate self care. So, listen deeply. Bring your whole self. Senses open.

Wholeheartedly,

Kim