Experiencing
Daily writing experience - day 48
Experiencing
There’s nothing like having experiences that disrupt your “normal routine” to create newfound awareness. This is one of the main reasons I enjoy traveling so much.
As a Reflector, it's been recommended I “be a sieve, not a sponge” of human experiences, emotions, and energetic exchanges. I’ve been contemplating the metaphor to clarify “how to” get to “sieveness” given that I'm recognizing the heaviness of acting like a sponge by carrying the samples I gather throughout my days.
What prevents me from allowing things to flow in my life?
Attachments get in the way.
What does that mean?
My mind likes to assign meaning to past and future events, make up stories about experiences and people as well as choose a focus or a perspective that might not be the most appropriate for the situation. The phrase “there is no truth in the now” keeps circling.
Recognizing the mind's repetitive pattern can be difficult to do on your own because they feel “normal”.
Being in a relationship can be helpful to recognizing patterns in order to disrupt them if you can both feel safe enough to communicate what you see in the other without attachment, judgement, or assigning meaning.
It's a very difficult thing to do, unless you were raised that way, you've done the healing work required or you're in a working relationship with a trained professional (coach, therapist, mentor, etc).
The lessons, the wisdom, the opportunity to discover is in being present to the human experience without becoming attached.
Do you have a relationship where you feel safe enough to experience being your full self?