Free Fall
When Things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful, or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. There is definitely something tender and throbbing about groundlessness. Pema Chodron Recently I had one of those "noticings" that many of the ways I avoid that edge of discomfort, were no longer working. I didn't occur to me I was on the verge of something. In what felt like a place of surrender , I called a friend. She was delighted. To say I was befuddled and a bit taken aback at her reaction to my distress, would be understated. A dear friend suggested to me not long ago," to give up the fight". To say she suggested would be too soft. She said you "have to give up the fight, breathe, take in the prana, the life force that is yours and rest, really rest. S
