As we face into these strange times and meet uncertainty and fear, we can unsurprisingly find ourselves feeling wobbly at times, we can lose our sense of centre and ground, like trying to swim in strong currents of the sea, we can find ourselves being thrown from a flow of hyper-arousal to an ebb of feeling stuck and overwhelmed. This was certainly my experience as we started to face into Covid.
The great news is that the sea can calm, our ground is always there for us to return to, to remember, to re-orientate to. And as Celtic wisdom says there is meant to be a forgetting, we are meant to lose our way and the spiral is the joy of remembering the wisdom that we know in our bones.
Come sit in a virtual circle of remembering
Bring your cuppa, perhaps a warm blanket and make yourself a cosy nest of cushions, as we come together in a circle of remembering:
“Because the mind is always engaged with whatever is happening now, it often forgets who we are. The heart never forgets. Everything of significance is inscribed there. The heart is the archive of all our intimate memory. What is truly felt leaves the deepest inscription. Each of us carries the book of our life inside our hearts”.
John O’ Donohue, Benedictus