Burn - Fuck, Yes!

Ouch!  

So, does healing always involve pain?  I'd like to say "No" - but my Spirit counsels otherwise.  Healing requires us to LEAN INTO the discomfort.  If there are two paths and one is easy and well worn and the other new, unknown and scary... well, guess which one your Spirit wants?  

Three years ago I was meditating near a stream in the Himalayan's of Bhutan.  I wasn't sitting very long when I knew something unusual was up.  Within seconds, I saw a crowd of tall light beings in white robes in my mind's eye.  I say a crowd, because there were several, and since this was not a typical event for me, I didn't think to count.   They spoke very clearly and directly.  Put it this way, when your Spirit Guides want to let you know something, they say it very clearly.  

They said "This will be the most difficult thing you will ever do.  This is your dark night of the soul.  But it's okay.  We will be here with you.  We will tell you what to do.  We love you."  

Yep.  Really.   and then they vanished.  

So began the three most difficult years of my life.  No aspect of my life was left untouched.  My marital status changed, my house changed, my pet changed, my job changed, my friends changed, my car changed, my body changed, my name changed, and the state I lived in changed.  (and those are only the physical things!)  It was the "dark night of my soul."  Yet, I leaned into it; my personal "tsunami of the soul."  Exhilarating and fucking terrifying.  And yes, the whole time they told me what to do, and for some crazy reason, I listened.   

Would I do it all again? 

my answer: Fuck, Yes!   

Is there an easier way to healing for a while? - I hope so. 

Burn

Strip every piece of clothing from your body
And walk purposely into the fire.
Although it might hurt at first,
It is only the
vast difference
  that will burn;
And this only scorches the trail to your heart.

- Lori