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Im curious about your experiences of these times Im calling healing moments. Im less interested in what these moments mean in a theoretical and theological sense, and more interested in how they impact our experience of being a human while living with a difficult disease.
Others have referred to these moments as:
Ive only had fleeting glimpses of these kinds of healing moments. Some have been embodied where I sensed it as a physical experience. Others have been more like an image coming into my mind holding disparate thoughts in an altogether new way. At times they have marked turning points for me in my life path. Mostly these moments are reassuring as I become aware of a connection to something much larger than myself.
I told about my tree experience in the dream thread and the tree thread so I wont repeat that one here. I will share one other healing moment that came to me as an image several times and left a calm in its place. I had come down with a bronchial and sinus infection in addition to my usual overwhelming symptoms. I was feeling very miserable and discouraged and stuck. These images allowed some healing respite in the middle of my storm.
This image comes back to me many times shimmering with possibility.
What have been your healing moments? (Feel free to interpret this any way you like.)
Others have referred to these moments as:
the moment
the eternal now
the sacred pause
moments of grace
the stillpoint
the eternal now
the sacred pause
moments of grace
the stillpoint
. . . a veil has been lifted and we see . . .
behind the faade the world has built round us . . .
It is impossible to put into words; it is something beyond words . . .
in the language of theology they are
moments of grace.
Bede Griffiths
Theyre like moments when a river is very calm
and for an instant you can see to its depths,
and then the currents pick up again and the clarity dissolves.
We become liquid in these moments.
We lose our sense of discrete self and feel
a profound connectedness to the universe.
Gabrielle Roth
Healing is entering into the transcendent, timeless moment
when one experiences the divine.
Jeanne Achterberg
Beyond all concepts and striving,
there is a point of peace in each of us.
It is our only true sanctuary and is immediately accessible.
Resting in the sanctuary of our own peace,
we are left with no beliefs and no religion.
We are left instead with love within a feeling of aliveness
a passionate presence.
Catherine Ingram
behind the faade the world has built round us . . .
It is impossible to put into words; it is something beyond words . . .
in the language of theology they are
moments of grace.
Bede Griffiths
Theyre like moments when a river is very calm
and for an instant you can see to its depths,
and then the currents pick up again and the clarity dissolves.
We become liquid in these moments.
We lose our sense of discrete self and feel
a profound connectedness to the universe.
Gabrielle Roth
Healing is entering into the transcendent, timeless moment
when one experiences the divine.
Jeanne Achterberg
Beyond all concepts and striving,
there is a point of peace in each of us.
It is our only true sanctuary and is immediately accessible.
Resting in the sanctuary of our own peace,
we are left with no beliefs and no religion.
We are left instead with love within a feeling of aliveness
a passionate presence.
Catherine Ingram
Ive only had fleeting glimpses of these kinds of healing moments. Some have been embodied where I sensed it as a physical experience. Others have been more like an image coming into my mind holding disparate thoughts in an altogether new way. At times they have marked turning points for me in my life path. Mostly these moments are reassuring as I become aware of a connection to something much larger than myself.
I told about my tree experience in the dream thread and the tree thread so I wont repeat that one here. I will share one other healing moment that came to me as an image several times and left a calm in its place. I had come down with a bronchial and sinus infection in addition to my usual overwhelming symptoms. I was feeling very miserable and discouraged and stuck. These images allowed some healing respite in the middle of my storm.
I am in a small boat, floating in the middle of a small lake at the edge of a bayou. The sky is blue grey. The water reflects this grey and is calm and smooth. The air is still. I am aware of grass and trees growing around the edges of the water. There is no before to this story I dont have any idea how I came to be in the center of this lake. Nor does this story have an after I have no idea where I will be going. I am just here, sitting in a boat in the middle of a lake that is calm and smooth.
This image comes back to me many times shimmering with possibility.
I see myself in the boat in the middle of the lake and then I become one with the boat and the lake and the sky and the trees. This is a lovely moment suspended out of time. It just is.
What have been your healing moments? (Feel free to interpret this any way you like.)