Inner Wisdom
I had a wonderful holiday in the Netherlands in June. I stayed with Miriam’s family and we had a heartfelt memorial for her beside a beautiful lake, not far from where she grew up.
I loved my early morning walks and the photo above was taken during one of those, looking back over the village where Miriam lived. The visit was a mixture of sadness and happy memories, and a cathartic opportunity for all of us.
One evening at dinner in an outside café I had the fortune to be deposited on my shirt by a bird in the tree above. I moved my chair, but then it happened a second time. I was assured by my friends that this was very good luck, and that I should make a wish, but not tell anyone until it comes true. I made my wish, but then told them straight away, because it was already true. I wished to be happy - I was then, and I still am today. And my shirt has made a full recovery lol.
Some people might think it odd that I can be happy, still less than a year since my beautiful wife passed on so suddenly. I can’t speak for how anyone else might cope in a similar situation. I can only speak to my experience. Yes there was grief, and there still is. I miss her every day. But we were very happy together, and I’m incredibly grateful for that special time, albeit too short. I’ve been fortunate to acknowledge a calm presence, a kind of space of awareness, within my deeper self. And that space is big enough to cope with periods of grief and other difficulties that come for a while, then move on, a little like clouds passing through a vast, spacious sky.
Yes, I still have moments of grumpiness, sadness, frustration. But then, most of the time, I remember they are only temporary, part of being human. I’m a work in progress like everyone else! When something triggers me I realise that it’s not really true, and I just come back to calm open presence within my own body.
I saw a quote recently that kind of sums it up paradoxically: ‘It’s being open to the you that has no difficulty, even when you’re having difficulty.’
In craniosacral therapy that deeper place is often called your Inner Wisdom. It’s the place that exists within all of us when we can be open to it. And we all have moments of opening to it – that moment of awe when we see a beautiful sunrise; or a smile on a baby’s face as they gaze into your eyes.
And when I work on your body on the table, and you experience calmness, peace, and a kind of magic feeling of well-being during and afterwards. That’s not me, that’s your own Inner Wisdom that has come to the fore. And that Inner Wisdom knows what you need to heal in that moment.
It’s a beautiful thing for me to witness in you, and it’s why I love this work so much!
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Rhys Dwyer
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