“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition… what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda
Over and over, I have asked for guidance. “Where do I go?” “What is the next step?” “What is blocking me?” Over and over, I have picked up books hoping that they would lead the way. Going back through them, the bookmark is in exactly the same place each time: it is holding my place on the page where it said, “Become still, be quiet and listen, or meditate.” I have always stopped there and not listened. But I kept asking the same questions.
The one time I tried to meditate, I sat still for twenty minutes three days in a row. On the third day I stood up with a whole book in my head. I wrote the book, but I didn’t meditate again.
For the past 5 weeks, I have been participating in Pixie Campbell’s Soulodge. I have never – not once – completed an e-course before, but I have just about completed this one. And do you know what she asked us to do? Become still. Be quiet and listen. Journey inwards. This time I pushed through my resistance and actually did as I was told.
And the answers to my questions were all there waiting for me.
Why are the easiest sounding steps the ones that are the hardest to take?
Sit still. Be quiet and listen. Journey inwards. Meditate.
yes.
P.S. Pixie is hosting another Soulodge from the 31rst of October. I highly recommend it.
I love this for you, Megg. And I agree with you that stillness doesn’t often come easy. One of the websites I maintain, called Still Forming, is all about this process of becoming still and finding the truth of our hearts and our ongoing formation process in that stillness. Some mornings when I sit down to write those daily posts, I feel anything but stillness! Sometimes I have to wrestle all the noise and jumpiness in me to the ground. Image meditations with Jesus often help me, eventually, with this struggle.
So glad you found some stillness through Pixie’s class and found the answers you needed waiting for you inside. Peace with you on the continued journey. xoxo
Oh my goodness – YOU were there too? Me too! Only I tended to keep a low profile. Like you, I have taken many online courses, got through a lot of them but this one was definitely different. I am almost finished my meditation stick, I have been taking a lot of time to full grasp it. My journey with my power animal was intense, revealing and so spot on, even though it was one of the last animals I expected or wanted to show up. I will be in the next SouLodge (just waiting for my credit card statement date to pass so it will appear on next month’s one! The whole class was beyond what my words can describe. Sadly, it will be quite wintery here when the next session starts to actually getting out in nature and/or being able to cull bits and pieces of it will be more challenging but I am up for it.