Healing Through Life's Profound Moments
Regardless of the transition you face, whether it is leaving your job to find your life's purpose, leaving a spouse to find yourself, or finding life's truth hidden in death and dying, being profoundly intimate with your life, exactly as it is, helps the transition make sense and transforms your life.
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Psychologists allege that we will only experience 13 minutes of true intimacy in our entire lives. I wasn't willing to settle for 13 minutes. Are you?
I have been there ... through career endings and the struggles for new beginnings, through divorce as shared lifelines turned into ashes, through the pain of life's final transition, watching as my life partner faced cancer. It was our cancer, not just his. It taught me the power of intimacy and how to remain present and available to life regardless of what it was dishing out.
Life hurts at times. It's scary and painful. We have been taught to avoid pain, so in essence, we have been taught to avoid life. The pains of life are why we sidestep our inner guidance, why we avoid intimacy, why we are wary of change. If we enter into the great unknown, something drastic will happen. So, we stay put until life spits us out, kicking and screaming, into the great unknown.
By not engaging life fully we minimize the risk of failure and the certainty of pain and sorrow. As the inner struggle atests, closed to life's bumps and bruises something else happens. We maximize our heart's sorrow as we miss the profound moments of intimacy that make life worth living.
It is possible to expand our thirteen minutes of intimacy into days, months and years ... into a lifetime of profound moments. Your transition can be your leaping off point. Are you willing to risk being fully intimate with your life?
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The pains of life provide the doorway for a homecoming that is filled with peace and bliss. When we are willing to be with our life, regardless of its contents, that doorway opens. Life's love and pain is the price of entry.
Gayle Gregory
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