Traveling Inside

Traveling Inside

I open the door, board a plane
And explore what's inside of me.
It is easier to do this away from home
Where things are new and the unknown keeps me wide awake.
When the world is wacky
I learn about myself.

I suppose I could do this from the safety
Of my apartment
... ummm... no, probably not...
Like the monk in the cave,
a calm ocean lends me no assistance to fill my sails and get me where I want to go.

Perhaps this is the truth known to all the adventurers out there
We find ourselves
By leaving ..

I know we can find ourselves when we desire, independent of our present location or story in life. Yet... something nags at me... it's as if our internal blocks eventually create actual walls in our life that we can't see.  Then something truly transformational happens to us when we physically leave a place and move into the unknown.   

At the beginning of a big change in my life, my intuition said "move."   Not "move" as in dance/exercise or move as in "go on a trip" ... but actually move to a new place to live.  For me that meant leaving a house I had been in for 20+ years and moving into an apartment.  Later I made sense of this seemingly irrational need to move when someone said, we have to start change from the root chakra and then move up.  The root chakra is the chakra at the root of our spine representing the physical reality of our life (to simplify it).  

I also see the parallel as students come to do the Hoffman Process.  There is a physical relocation that takes place as they leave their life for 8 days, turning off their phone, and removing themselves from the outside world.  Then think about how time and time again people refer to healing as a "journey"...   

Can we make big change for ourselves and not physically change anything?  I'm not sure the answer, but I suspect that if we have been in the same place for a while, the answer would be "no."  I'm not suggesting you move.  But it seems relevant if you are wanting to feel differently in your life to ask yourself, "What physical reality around me am I NOT willing to change?"  (That's the interesting part... ;)