Photo by Susan Walters Minker
My Chinese medicine acupuncturist reminded me this week that as it’s fall, and the body wants to follow the natural cycle of nature. That means the body needs:
slower pace
more rest
presence pauses
She said go sit with a cup of tea.
Clarity lit up. I was reminded of the transformational alchemy of nature, body nurturing and presence pauses.
Doc’s a wonderful practitioner and has helped me with healing my spine and body.
A herniated disc buckled me last spring, physically, emotionally and energetically. I sought her out, for her acupuncture and Chinese medicine healing experience. Treatments are often not necessarily blissful, not like a spa day treatment. Yesterday’s treatment was not a spa day experience.
Chinese medicine offers ancient wisdoms of life and medicinal knowledge. It’s about healing through life force energy (qi), connecting body, energy, nature, emotional, spiritual, mental and physical health realms. To me this all makes sense … I live at a nature retreat center, Bend of Ivy Lodge.
My chinese medicine doc talked to me of the need to be present. Her mention of presence brought a smile. I’m a Presence-Based Coach, and our retreat center was co-founded by Doug Silsbee, the founder of Presence-Based Coaching. Coincidentally, I heard Doug’s name fondly repeated that same afternoon by many attendees in a program by Cultivating Leaderships’s founder Jennifer Garvey Berger. Program was on on Navigating in Uncertainty. Yep, that’s now.
Double reminder that day of the power of Presence.
How do you find presence?
Later that day, nature brought me a soothing presence pause. A lone humming bird came to my humming bird feeder and just sat there, still, for 20 minutes. I was present, and amazed. The feeder had been a popular humming bird magnet all summer, with birds often dive bombing others away. Never had a humming bird paused for more than a minute or two. Til now. I paused, and watched in awe and curiosity. It was therapeutic.
I often need reminders to slow down, pause. How about you?
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