The Balance Between Our Cosmic Force and Our Human Life
Through healing and soul work, we encounter divine and cosmic energies and aspects of ourselves.
These energies are so fascinating, that it can be easy to get swept up into the spiritual and lose connection with our (sometimes mundane) human life.
But, as with most things, the balance between both is key to a fulfilling and meaningful life.
Too much of either will cause us to become unbalanced. Too much of the dreaming, and we will be spacey, ungrounded and unable to make any real impact on the world. Overemphasis on the material world, and we lose touch with the deepest part of our self and our soul - who we are.
So how do we seek to balance both?
Number One for most people is: rest. Time out for yourself, quiet space and relaxation practices - whether that looks like tea, meditation, yoga, a retreat or something else for you. Rest from your phone, tablet, emails, TV, traffic, to-do lists etc. Rest.
Next, we learn to come home to our bodies - they are made up of the Earth and the vehicle for our soul in this lifetime. Mindful attention to your body, nourishing your body with good food and movement, and learning what each symptom is trying to tell you will help you learn the unique language of your body.
In accessing our bodies, we will become familiar with our emotional worlds. The emotions are one of the best way to connect with your soul, and they show up clearly through the body in facial expressions, posture and muscle tone. For most people, it is a journey to feel, acknowledge and accept the amazing array of human emotions. When we gain sufficient self-regulation, our emotions become clues about our soul's pathway.
Part of this journey will also involve accepting our imperfections and flaws, which are an inevitable result of being human. No matter how spiritual we are, or become, we reside in human bodies with the constraints of human mind and culture. We won't please everybody, or do everything perfectly, or reach the successes we dream of without failure, dissatisfaction and getting it wrong sometimes. Can we love ourselves anyway and bring spiritual wisdom and compassion to our human selves?
Connection to the Earth helps ground any floating energies and it is also the gateway to the life we were born to live. What are you here to express? What is your part right now in the great wheel of life? With the Earth we can stay grounded and keep it cosmic too.
Moving more deeply into our connection with nature and every part of life on Earth, we begin to realise that being human and spiritual are two sides to the same coin. From the depth of Earth we can connect with the expansive nature of the universe and lean into the humanness of vulnerability.
We can tune into the flow of life, the flow of our own bodies and emotions, and understand there is a deeper plan in the apparent chaos of creation, which is revealed to us the more we return home to ourselves.
We hold the key to this paradox - the blessing of life on Earth - through this continual balancing.
Find your human and cosmic balance with bryony@creativesoultherapies.com