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These practices are not called upon to avoid what is becoming, nor are they an effective band-aid to bring healing to a wound, though this will ultimately become the resulting outcomes of their use.
Instead, these ways of breathing and being are more about dipping further into the experience of what manifests as real in our world, in so much as our human emotions and thought processes may be considered real.
To be ‘with what is’ will become the greatest gift we could ever give ourselves, though admittedly challenging at certain times and given in the face of pokes that rub our deepest wounding and fears.
And yet here, in this remote and darkened landscape, is where the greatest beauty lies. For after the arduous walk through the shadowy forests and up the steep mountains of our own chaotic geography, we come to the edge of a cliffside with views so vast our breath vanishes as we peer over the distant horizon freshly birthing the first rays of the new day’s Sun.
It is here, within the majesty of our own lived experience that we can become ultimately liberated, loosed like arrows from the binding traction of the tightened bow of our reluctant salvation.
The very struggles we may have sought to avoid give rise to a vast kaleidoscope of possibility as our willingness to forgo our long-standing resistance is truly enacted by our transforming choices to be fully present and available for all that each moment has to offer.
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