Where are you on the richter scale?
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Northern Coast of Vancouver Island last night. During a discussion with a friend this morning about the details, I could feel this blog post formulating and I find myself writing about my curiosity of the human experience. My first thought was WOW, earthquakes are a mirror of both the collective and individual human experience. Are they not? Earthquakes are the Earth releasing energy, often referred to as strain in rocks, being released. We too, build up energy in our bodies over time, from what? Strain that builds from what we hold onto. Every negative emotion (which is the bodies response to a thought) if not acknowledged and healed in the moment, leaves behind a residue of pain (strain). If the richter scale number were a metaphor for all you’d not let go of, forgiven or healed in all areas of your life, what number would you choose for yourself today? We all know what the destruction a Tsunami or very large release of the Earth can create, how frightening and how awakening it can be. Perhaps we have not all experienced earthquakes, but even when you hear of them occurring around the world, do you not feel some emotion about it and for those who did? When I was in India in on Dec 26th 2004, while I was inland the impact and consideration of all the lives touched that day by the massive tsunami that hit southern India and the coast of Thailand moved and stayed with me for weeks. The tsunami of our own life could mean finding one day we have a very serious or life threatening illness or that a dear one’s time had come to leave this life and the tough part being, we’d held a grudge, distanced ourselves from them, it could appear in many forms. Everything is energy and whether in the earth or body an expression will be made known when the container is full. As human Beings, we have the choice, if we wake up, to tend to ourselves, to our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies and in doing so we can release some of the old and make space for new, loving wonderful relationships with everyone we love. Small tremors, releases and healings along the way, as we often hear, are much better and symbolize balance. The point of this post, is just to say, change is eminent, energy that builds will turn into some form of expression and you have the choice to manage how that may look in your own experience, the power to choose is yours.
