Plant love.
I've been taking yoga. I love it. And I've loved it since I was a little girl. My mom did yoga after we moved to Canada, and me and my sister joined in doing weird things like breathing out all your air and then sucking your abdomen in until it pretty much touched your spine. Tonight at yoga we did a headstand, which I also learned with my mom. With my mom we learned with Kareen Zebroff, on TV I think. She actually wrote back to my mom after she wrote to her when she had cancer.
I have been thinking a lot about how when I used to take yoga as an adult , I used to cry. Even last year at a cool type of exercise/freeform dance class on the Sunshine Coast, I cried. It was always weird for me , and I always felt so awful and alienated because no one else was crying and no one ever hugged me or talked to me about why I was crying. ... and mostly I just could hide the fact that I was crying so well, ...or people just don't care. Or maybe they think you are unstable when actually you have just had some incredibly traumatic things happen to you at a young age, and then you just shut down that part of you and you perservere through all those things that came next in your life. For years.
I don't know why I've been thinking about this, but the good thing is that I don't cry now at yoga, at least not yet. I may have tonight after my day, but a really good thing happened, and some people were really nice to me, so I felt better.
Anyway, now after all these years I can finally breathe. Breathe life into my lungs, love into my lungs, love into life, and into others, and into the world. Healing can take a very long time, and require a tremendous amount of love. Not too many have stuck in there with me through all this. Most don't even know.
Love all you can.
My yoga teacher says "forgive quickly, kiss slowly" .
I like that. I say hug someone until you can feel their heartbeat, which might take awhile.
sometimes letting a person cry without words or touch is the most respectful thing to do.
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those things (hug or words) would likely make you stop crying...when you needed to
it is embarrassing tho i know
i often cry during a reiki treatment
and the first Flett class i took i struggled with tears thru the last 4 sessions
i was learning that art comes from inside i guess
learning in a deeper level maybe
the purse is great
i smile
thanks for your comment, gillian. I do get what you're saying, and to be with someone and to share the time when a person needs to cry is a very respectful thing indeed. Also the tears, can be very scary, and a person may benefit from knowing that others are with them in their grieving, to avoid feeling alone in a crowd. Love is a splendid thing! : )
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