‘What sunlight does to water, stillness does to us.’ ~ What Stillness by LAURA FOLEY.
Hello fellow humans! Welcome to the very first episode of the new monthly audio series for my paid subscriber community, Creating a Clearing - everyday practices for remembering, reconnection and radical hope.
Every month paid subscribers receive by email a mini audio practice recorded in the wild, as well as prompts/affirmations to assist with applying the practice in the wild world of their lives.
Today I'm sharing a practice to help you create a clearing in ‘the dense forest of your life’. I love the poem ‘Clearing’ by Martha Postlethwaite that includes that phrase. It speaks so beautifully of the potency and necessity of creating even the smallest of clearings. You can listen to me read the poem from my clearing under the Moreton Bay Fig trees.
Making space for our true selves, our intuition and the Mystery is a practice of tending and building trust. It takes patience and devotion, much like tending an open fire. It’s a collaboration with the elements and how we learn when to nourish and when to let things be.
Tending to the fire of our intuition takes practice. The more we return and tend to the clearing we create for ourselves, the more easeful it becomes. Our rational impatient mind learns to surrender and trust in the emptiness of the mystery without immediately making demands of it.
Instead we wait.
We soften our gaze and make space for whatever may or may not arise.
From spaciousness and stillness comes possibility.
We allow curiosity instead of expectation to be our guide.
We embrace the Mystery.
Lay down your questions, drop your bow, yield to nothing if you dare. The space between stories is yours to know. ~ from Homecoming, Reunion Songs - poems for reconnection and remembering yourself home by Amanda Cooke
In this month’s short visualisation, I invite you to give yourself permission to lay down your questions and align with the innate and effortless flow of expanding and contracting with the breath and create a clearing wherever you are.
Take a moment to make yourself comfortable, grab a glass of water and something to write on and with if you'd like to. Give yourself some time to arrive and settle into the space we're creating together.
It's wonderful to have your good company here and thank you for joining me on this new Appetite for Living adventure! Afterwards, if it feels good, I’d love to know how this practice was for you!
Yours in remembering and reconnection, x Amanda
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