Perpetual Wholeness

My hope is that you are finding peace as we welcome a new season.

Some truly powerful private sessions this month have illuminated so much and at a time when the light is slowly leaving us - shorter days, cooler nights, and energies turning inward.

When we are able and ready to engage in the work and practices that welcome all aspects of ourselves home, we remember and experience ourselves as whole, exactly as we are, in every moment.

We are dedicated to supporting you through the process of welcoming all of the parts of you back home; parts that have been denied, shunned, exiled; parts that are longing to be seen, acknowledged, understood, tended to, nourished, and healed. We hold sacred space for you to remember and realize that all of the parts of you have a place and a purpose and are what make you whole - the attempts you make to remove them actually move you farther from experiencing your wholeness.

Our wholeness inevitably includes shadows and darkness and these aspects cannot be denied or replaced as they are a part of our reality and parts of who we are. In order to experience our wholeness we need to pay homage to these real, living, breathing, pieces of us.

Fall is a reminder to both embrace and grieve the falling, dying, and decay in our external and internal worlds. A perfect time to dig into deeper exploration of ourselves in order to re-balance and re-integrate.

Choosing wholeness requires us to not splice, remove, or sever ties to any parts of ourselves. It is in our very denying of certain aspects of ourselves and of life that amplifies discomfort, pain, and suffering. It is in this severing that we lose not only ties to ourselves but we limit the possibilities for the brilliance and beauty that wholeness brings.

In the sometimes melancholy energy of autumn, we may feel an aversion to the external and internal change, a sense of loss as we move away from summer's brilliance and buoyancy. This season offers an invitation to acknowledge grief, and as my wise teacher once said "grief is the bridge" and we have to walk it, move through it (feel it, see it, taste it, smell it), use it to move into an elevated awareness of the perpetual wholeness of every moment, experience, and season.

Continued…

Let us hold sacred space to bring all of the seasons, all of the parts of you to life, to be witnessed, to be admired, to give it all space to breathe. When we safely welcome parts of us that we have been avoiding (for various and valid reasons) we learn to work with them, we come to know what is needed, and we explore the possibilities of offering these parts of us new experiences from a more resourced and supported perspective. We cannot bypass this process with a quick fix, it is hard work, it's easier to numb, to ignore, to distract, but it’s the most important work of your life and it never ends... it's perpetual.

I invite you to embrace both the beauty that comes with fall (your internal fall and the external seasonal fall), and the sadness you may feel as we watch the ending of what brought us such ease, joy, and vitality. Everything was, is, and will always be whole though we cannot see it all the time. We are not moving into a lesser time, we are moving into a different time and we can do so with the vividness of all the colours, smells, mindsets, and experiences. In a state of perpetual wholeness, what we strive for and encourage in The Messina Movement, most things have a purpose, have a valuable place at the table, are invited into the circle of our lives. What arises from the decay / the ashes / the composted material, like the brown autumn leaves, may be even more powerful, promising, nourishing, and vitally rich than we can imagine, offering far more than if we spent all of our energy preserving it.

“In the visible world of nature, a great truth is concealed in plain sight. Diminishment and beauty, darkness and light, death and life are not opposites: they are held together in the paradox of the “hidden wholeness.” In a paradox, opposites do not negate each; they cohabit and co-create in mysterious unity at the heart of reality. Deeper still, they need each other for health, just as our well-being depends on breathing in and breathing out.”

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