In an environment of "embodied attunement", we are able to
rest in the mystery of Being. We can explore unstructured
states of consciousness and enter courageously into the dark
and into the light. In this sense, love is an alive field of
presence in which experience can unfold into greater levels
of integration and cohesion.
From this perspective, "I love you" = "I allow you." I can
allow you to have your own experience, to organize and make
meaning of the world in the way that you do. I can allow you
to be what you are. While I will not allow you to abuse me or
to act violently or break the agreements and boundaries we
have established, I can allow your experience to be what it is,
and unfold the way it does.
By meeting people where they are we can be vehicles of love...
We can enter into friendship with another and their experience
as it is, but not so close that we lose perspective and become
emotionally fused... In this sacred middle territory we offer
the gift of our "attuned presence" - the offering of pure space...
For space is our true nature. By resting in the organic space of
Being.....we do not need people to be different, to change, to
become "awakened", to be in "high vibration", or to "heal" in
order for us to love them. We also will not place the burden
upon them to take care of our unlived lives and unmet
emotions for us, and we will honor their unique process and
journey, by being there for them if we are needed.
We can provide the same space for ourselves.
In any here and now moment, we can discover that our
nature as Awareness Itself is in fact the ultimate holding
environment. While as an infant we depended upon
another to provide this environment for us, in which we
could rest in Primordial Beingness, it is actually here at all
times. It is here now, pouring out of the unseen and soaking
into ever cell and strand of DNA.
With eyes and heart wide open.....just look and you will feel it
surrounding you... right now. While we may not always
understand our experience [or others] - and while it may never
conform to our ideas, hopes, and dreams about the life we were
"meant to live" - we can come to trust that it is unfolding
uniquely, emerging out of the unseen hand of Love.
~
Photo - Mystic Meandering
Mammatus Clouds.
See the two hands with forearms
reaching down, from right upper corner
to center of photo :)
