how do we find our way in to heaviness

stuckness, sludge

when it comes to visit?

Maybe a felt sense of heaviness, immovability, stagnation is very familiar in the body you inhabit. Maybe it’s not. Either way, if it comes through a doorway into your experience, how do you greet it? What words do you offer it? What tone, songs, movements away/towards?

Something heavy, weighty, sludgy, stuck has been with me lately. Steady, waiting, sometimes somewhere nearby, sometimes right in the center of my experience.

I’ve been trying some things. A very sad movie that pulled out a wash of tears. Plant medicines to open the heart, soften the mind. Moving the body: qi gong, alternating intensity and stilling into the heartbeat with releases through breath & sound inspired by The Class, yoga, long walks on dirt paths in the woods. Sitting meditation, grounding exercises, visualizations for moving energy.

When I’m looking to practices like these to support me in moving challenging emotional (and/or other flavors) of energy, I eventually land in the same re-membering.

It’s not what we do that enables shift. It’s how.

The way we are — with ourselves, with the Earth, with others — is the meat of it. The flavor, the tone. The other stuff is just modes of expression.

How are you being with yourself today?

How are you being with others in variously formed human, animal, plant, rock… bodies?

What does the way you’re being with yourself and/or others feel like—in the offering, in the being offered?

What type of listening, hearing, tending to, expansiveness is it making space for?