Another month has flown, as our world unfolds during hyper-novel times.
Nestled in beauty, I continue to have the honor of helping all sorts of people see and navigate their current situations … be they happy, optimistic, sad, mad, pessimistic, scared, mourning, or another place on the emotional scale.
The variety of processing continues to delight, astound and humble me – including:
- Satsang members mapping conditioning via non-dual means.
- Survivors mediating fragments, parts and programs.
- Americans (and others) processing election despair, elation and neutrality.
- Many meeting the discomfort (and potentiality) of uncertainty.
- Deep divers looking evil and darkness straight in the face.
- Visual Coaches prepping for and undertaking their final exam.
- IT executive balancing responsibility of projects with self care.
- Dental patient integrating earlier trauma in the chair.
- Principal unraveling the pain of industry and community politics.
- Creator peeling the onion on her mind/body split.
- Divorce finalization, pet loss, surgery and deadlines – too much at once.
- Widow forging work and creativity after partner’s passing.
- New visual practitioner meeting fear, and its escapee tendencies.
- Dedicated animal rescuer finding a much-needed assistant.
- Caregivers and the challenge of attending to one’s own needs too.
- Recently minted PhD contemplating academia or other ventures.
- School teacher preparing for district promotional interviews.
- Accountant with intergenerational patterns that complicate love.
- Parents and the tender death anniversaries of their beloved children.
- Voice teacher attracting ideal clients for innovative new offerings.
- Retirees adapting to shifts in schedules and identities.
- Consultant intentionally mining her reactivity for helpful clues.
- Non-profit player tackling repetitive betrayal patterns.
Whew … such a diversity of human experiences! With so much of the work being about strengthening BEING over lopsided DOING.
Slowing down and making sincere contact with our tender inner aspects. Being with them. Bringing solid presence. It’s amazing what truly humanely BEING with ourselves and others does.
Honoring our overactive minds and doers yet maintaining boundaries where needed too. Continuously reconnecting minds, hearts and bellies (over and over again).
The conditioning took years (decades, lifetimes) to build, so compassionately knowing its only natural that consistent unconditioning will take time too
It’s called a spiritual practice for a reason.
Underneath all the hubbub stillness reigns. No matter where one enters from the surface.
Appreciatively,
Christina Merkley,
Visual Coaching and Satsangs
www.shift-it-coach.com
