SPIRITUaLITY

Life’s dance of connection

UNIVERSE WITHIN Gwen Randall-Young

SPIRITUaLITY

the lOnGeR we live, the easier it becomes to truly recognize the common ground we share. like marathoners lining up at the start line, we come into the world with a journey to make. We may start out looking pretty much alike and only time reveals what we each do with our journey.

emotions ebb and flow with the events of life. So many things seem very important.

Imagine for a moment that we are all 90-years-old, sitting around recounting our individual stories. how important would our story be then? Perhaps, to us, it would still be very important, but most of it would exist only in memory. ourselves to go through our own life cycles with the same lack of self-consciousness. to look at the sky, feel the breeze, fall in love, give birth, bury our loved ones: these are all natural aspects of life. the mental analysis that often accompanies life detracts from the fullon experience of living. It’s like the difference between painstakingly counting the one-two-three of the waltz and abandoning oneself to the music. One holds us back while the other invites us to flow into something larger than our own consciousness.

We are nature’s creatures and there is no need to hold anything back; we are free to blossom fully. It is our purpose. again and again, we see the dance of life repeat itself in nature. the

Like a shooting star, our soul passes through the earthly

plane, taking on physical form for a time, before returning

once again to the invisible.

It may also be important because it reminds us of when we were younger and actively creating life.

We might be able to imagine a time when much of what now concerns us is in the faraway past. that is when our individual life becomes the singular figure, against the much vaster common ground. all of our lives have a beginning, a middle and ending, regardless of how long we live. When it is over, we join the ranks of all who have gone before, existing now in another form and alive in the hearts of those who remember us.

like a shooting star, our soul passes through the earthly plane, taking on physical form for a time, before returning once again to the invisible. and what of the time that we are here? Does anything matter? Why the struggle, the effort, the passion and the drama? It is because we have come to participate in the ‘dance of life.’

We can sit on the sidelines and watch others dance or we can get in there and let ourselves go. Some will create new music or choreograph new dances that others will follow. It truly does not matter if anyone sees us or what they think.

Consider the wild bluebell, growing in the forest. It may go through its entire life cycle – from shoot to bud to flower to seed – exquisite in its beauty yet seen by no one. We can allow bud comes, the rose opens, the flower is radiant in its fullness and then the petals fall.

We are the flowers in the garden of life; the earth and the sky are our common ground. In the end, when our spirit has left the ground, the details of life become much less important. all that will matter is how brightly we allowed the light of our being to shine upon the earth. It will not matter if we were the most beautiful, the strongest or the richest in the garden.

It will not matter if we blossomed the longest. a baby who lived only 10 minutes can be a radiant star in the hearts of all who were touched by that short life.

Individuality can be expressed only once in all of eternity. this is your time. Indeed, we share the common ground. It is the backdrop against which we can reveal the part of us that is most uncommon and most miraculous. What a beautiful way to honour our cosmic hosts, whomever, whatever and wherever they may be.

Gwen Randall-Young is a psychotherapist in private practice and author of Growing Into Soul: the next Step in human evolution. For more articles, permission to reprint and information about her books and “Deep Powerful Change” personal growth/hypnosis CDs, visit www.gwen.ca Theta Healing is best described as an attainable miracle for your life. Our hands-on workshops teach you simple yet powerful techniques to facilitate instant results and lasting change!

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