Lets take a deep look at the holidays. Each year we have the major holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Both of these holidays create a great amount of stress around one theme.
" The way it ought to be" We stress about getting consumer items and meals and about being in a place of love and happiness.
Meanwhile most of us are experiencing loss, or change or just blues.
Stillness?? Where is that during the holiday. Its a mad rush of junk consumerism from Sept 30 into Dec and beyond.
The energy of the holidays is not Stillness its another energy. Its a dreamy energy of colors and lights and stories and fables. It very much an energy of a ME. Which is a concentrated energy that need outside objects to behave a certain way to feel happiness and love.
Happiness and Love will come from settling into what is there and accepting it totally. Yet, how can this be done on one of the most dazzling sparkly days if this ME has never done it in the first place to see that it is there appearing as light and sparkling.
The holidays are a whirlwind for the common person. They get caught up in all of the stories and drama and "the way it ought to be" mind voices. Often to the extent of insanity resulting in more emotions further sparking more ideas of why its not this way or that way.
So , is there a way out???
Besides wanting to stand on your roof with a firehose and water everyone down? or go off into the woods and be a hermit in a cabin. There must be a way to balance and stay within the stillness and enjoy the light show at the same time.
Here are my suggestions..... in poem
A Stillness opens and welcomes you
a veil of forms dances upon its surface
be the seeing through
in all moments this Stillness is there
a sacred dance whispering
home
appearing as the sadness, the fury
the cheer the dark and the light
this stage plays all of it as Stillness Staging
rest your head and come home to what is here
its ok the doing will still happen
life will move through you
offering home in every step
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