Resonates as keep having to decide to follow the gentle healing path as I have habit of wandering off into the jungle where it is definitely not good for me.
After years immersed in the 24/7 healing world, I’m now on “the path of ease and release” and as surprising as it might sound, I can tell you that is tricky to stay on.
Healing from chronic illness feels impossible right now. I’ve tried so many things but I end up feeling hopeless. Your post has given me some hope of possibility but for me , acknowledging that life is hard has been helpful in not ‘shaming’ the difficult and traumatic experiences. Accepting that it’s ok so that I can try and heal. But I also like the concept of ease and release , like it’s how we respond to the hard that’s important. Thank you for sharing. Can you say more about the guided meditation that helped you?
Feeling emotional at both the hope this post has opened up and how hard life is for you right now. Absolutely yes, to acknowledging this and not shaming. Acceptance is a powerful part of the healing process (like any other aspect, not an easy one to master). I learnt last year that life continues to be hard at times - I still live with occasional attacks/flares, people die, loved ones receive serious diagnosis, jobs end and life continues to challenge. Though It’s like brene brown says - we are hard wired for struggle but we are worthy of love and belonging. A second lesson I learnt last year is that, As humans, we are capable of feeling pain. Yet somehow we have attached a fear to it. It’s that fear where I wonder what will happen if we learned to release it? Re the meditation, it was one of the many I listen to on you tube. I can’t recall specifically, i listen to many powerfully guided meditations by reiki Rachael, psychic soul, rasa and others. My mind is often distracted like anyone else’s, there were times in my life I found it nearly impossible. Yet the shifts I’ve experienced through making it a practice have been profound. Deeply healing. Life changing. I started my searching “healing meditation” and slowly built a collection of favourites from there. I’ve written a full blog about meditation that I hope to share at some point - it’s half typed and waiting for me to finish it😆
Thank you so much for sharing Amber, really helpful and encouraging. I look forward to hearing more about meditation. I’ve just taken part in a live meditation through an online yoga programme I’m part of and it was about mindfulness for ease!! Think the universe is sending me a message!! 😂
I love this! It sounds like you are much further down the healing path than you think you are if you are tuning into messages. You are listening. You are def being guided. The universe has your back and somewhere within you will know what you are doing. This journey isn’t linear and that makes it confusing in a world where we’ve been taught it is. Keep doing what you’re doing. Look for the wins where you can. (They are always there but they don’t come dressed up in ways that society would consider them to be)
Thanks for reading it 🙏🦋 it has to be linked right? In much the same way as when I suffering so much physically, I was mentally beating myself up (telling myself I hadn’t done enough of this, hadn’t done enough of that, wasn’t good enough etc). Post migraine attack I would feel as though I’d been beaten up all the way around inside my head for days afterwards. A physical manifestation/reflection of my internal condition.
it is so true. Agree body and mind also so very linked when on the topic of health. Vipassana meditation saved me from my self and my thoughts. All that conditioned shame that disempowers us and makes us sick. Now that I have broken free of the chains, I can't help but see it all around me. I hope others learn some tools to dethrone the brain. Horrible horrible master but a beautiful and docile servant. I learned to de-identify with all my thoughts and just let them float on by. This led to a healthier body no longer tormented by my false thoughts and made up stories. Migraines are so debilitating. May you continue on the road to healing.
Well done Amber. This must have felt like birthing a child. I tried highlighting a restocking a piece but substack is acting a bitch. I'll try again later.
I can’t fully explain why right now, but I needed to read these words tonight 💛. I did not find this to be the meandering post you thought it might be. Every sentence landed. Thank you 🙏🏻
🥲I really appreciate this, thank you Amy. This one was my most strongly guided post to date and one I didn’t have any answers on. It was a complete act of surrender and opening the space for it to flow and take action to share. I’m so glad it’s landed -every sentance too😲 thank you 🙏🩵🦋
Me neither when I found it ! It’s true, we always “attract what we need at the time we need it”
Thanks for the compliment. Rael rarely reads it when I’m there so I don’t normally receive any direct feedback and he said “that’s brilliant”. It really helps so much. Especially with the likes of this one where I don’t even know where it’s going or what’s going to land with readers. I literally just had the title, that was it. And my usual case of “trusting like a mother fluffer” 😆😂
Your trusting like a mother fluffer paid off. I don’t thin writing always needs to go somewhere, like films, some of my favourite films don’t really have a beginning or an end it just is. Just being, like we should be I suppose, just be.
I liked this one, lots of golden nuggets of goodness in there.
I love that “writing doesn’t always need somewhere to go”. A practice in what it is to be human and like you say, “just be” 🥰 Thank you for noticing all the golden nuggets🏆
Incredible! I’m so happy to hear that you have de-identified from your thoughts and are able to allow them to pass on by. The health breakthroughs speak for themselves,
Resonates as keep having to decide to follow the gentle healing path as I have habit of wandering off into the jungle where it is definitely not good for me.
That’s a great analogy!
After years immersed in the 24/7 healing world, I’m now on “the path of ease and release” and as surprising as it might sound, I can tell you that is tricky to stay on.
Healing from chronic illness feels impossible right now. I’ve tried so many things but I end up feeling hopeless. Your post has given me some hope of possibility but for me , acknowledging that life is hard has been helpful in not ‘shaming’ the difficult and traumatic experiences. Accepting that it’s ok so that I can try and heal. But I also like the concept of ease and release , like it’s how we respond to the hard that’s important. Thank you for sharing. Can you say more about the guided meditation that helped you?
Feeling emotional at both the hope this post has opened up and how hard life is for you right now. Absolutely yes, to acknowledging this and not shaming. Acceptance is a powerful part of the healing process (like any other aspect, not an easy one to master). I learnt last year that life continues to be hard at times - I still live with occasional attacks/flares, people die, loved ones receive serious diagnosis, jobs end and life continues to challenge. Though It’s like brene brown says - we are hard wired for struggle but we are worthy of love and belonging. A second lesson I learnt last year is that, As humans, we are capable of feeling pain. Yet somehow we have attached a fear to it. It’s that fear where I wonder what will happen if we learned to release it? Re the meditation, it was one of the many I listen to on you tube. I can’t recall specifically, i listen to many powerfully guided meditations by reiki Rachael, psychic soul, rasa and others. My mind is often distracted like anyone else’s, there were times in my life I found it nearly impossible. Yet the shifts I’ve experienced through making it a practice have been profound. Deeply healing. Life changing. I started my searching “healing meditation” and slowly built a collection of favourites from there. I’ve written a full blog about meditation that I hope to share at some point - it’s half typed and waiting for me to finish it😆
Thank you so much for sharing Amber, really helpful and encouraging. I look forward to hearing more about meditation. I’ve just taken part in a live meditation through an online yoga programme I’m part of and it was about mindfulness for ease!! Think the universe is sending me a message!! 😂
I love this! It sounds like you are much further down the healing path than you think you are if you are tuning into messages. You are listening. You are def being guided. The universe has your back and somewhere within you will know what you are doing. This journey isn’t linear and that makes it confusing in a world where we’ve been taught it is. Keep doing what you’re doing. Look for the wins where you can. (They are always there but they don’t come dressed up in ways that society would consider them to be)
Thank you for the acknowledgment and encouragement Amber, I really appreciate it 🙏🏻💚
Thanks for sharing your story! I believe the path to wellness is linked to the path to finding our true selves and allowing it to manifest fully.
Thanks for reading it 🙏🦋 it has to be linked right? In much the same way as when I suffering so much physically, I was mentally beating myself up (telling myself I hadn’t done enough of this, hadn’t done enough of that, wasn’t good enough etc). Post migraine attack I would feel as though I’d been beaten up all the way around inside my head for days afterwards. A physical manifestation/reflection of my internal condition.
it is so true. Agree body and mind also so very linked when on the topic of health. Vipassana meditation saved me from my self and my thoughts. All that conditioned shame that disempowers us and makes us sick. Now that I have broken free of the chains, I can't help but see it all around me. I hope others learn some tools to dethrone the brain. Horrible horrible master but a beautiful and docile servant. I learned to de-identify with all my thoughts and just let them float on by. This led to a healthier body no longer tormented by my false thoughts and made up stories. Migraines are so debilitating. May you continue on the road to healing.
Well done Amber. This must have felt like birthing a child. I tried highlighting a restocking a piece but substack is acting a bitch. I'll try again later.
Thank you 😅 oooh which section were you going to restack?
I can’t fully explain why right now, but I needed to read these words tonight 💛. I did not find this to be the meandering post you thought it might be. Every sentence landed. Thank you 🙏🏻
🥲I really appreciate this, thank you Amy. This one was my most strongly guided post to date and one I didn’t have any answers on. It was a complete act of surrender and opening the space for it to flow and take action to share. I’m so glad it’s landed -every sentance too😲 thank you 🙏🩵🦋
As always such a powerful piece. I couldn’t get over how perfect that picture of the two paths is!
Me neither when I found it ! It’s true, we always “attract what we need at the time we need it”
Thanks for the compliment. Rael rarely reads it when I’m there so I don’t normally receive any direct feedback and he said “that’s brilliant”. It really helps so much. Especially with the likes of this one where I don’t even know where it’s going or what’s going to land with readers. I literally just had the title, that was it. And my usual case of “trusting like a mother fluffer” 😆😂
Hahahah wow what perfect evidence of this!
Your trusting like a mother fluffer paid off. I don’t thin writing always needs to go somewhere, like films, some of my favourite films don’t really have a beginning or an end it just is. Just being, like we should be I suppose, just be.
I liked this one, lots of golden nuggets of goodness in there.
I love that “writing doesn’t always need somewhere to go”. A practice in what it is to be human and like you say, “just be” 🥰 Thank you for noticing all the golden nuggets🏆
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Incredible! I’m so happy to hear that you have de-identified from your thoughts and are able to allow them to pass on by. The health breakthroughs speak for themselves,