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The Gentle Therapist Program | |||
Ages and Stages | |||
| anunda • Health, Therapy and LifeSkills | | |
The Gentle Therapist Program | |||
Ages and Stages | |||
| Who hopes? Who fears? Whose expectations are we living
out? Why are we trying to cram so much into the interval between birth and death? All through our lives we move through the years, hopefully building upon the days to get us to a brighter tomorrow. Struggling to put off, or to avoid the death we unconsciously fear most. Quite happily, we are killing ourselves trying to think we are staying alive. Most of us evolve as human beings at different paces, while the world pigeonholes us into boxes where we're "supposed" to be at any given time, places expectations that "this is how you should be" because "this is the way I want you to be". We're either too old, too young, too tall, too short, too thin, too fat. Each pigeonhole, each box has its own programme, its own "if > then > return" loop .. with the occasional "jump routine" built in. While we struggle to grasp for perfection and maintain it, we realize the impossibility of the task... and it's very easy to feel like a failure, unable to come to grips with the idea of the perfect specimen. Especially when every comparison we make to another shows up a shortcoming .. and everyone we look to for approval is more than happy to point out our shortcomings to us. Who defined our ideas of perfection? Who put on us that we were a failure, labelling us in a box which had its own nice little program or subroutine which we were defined to follow? Age is not a curse ... it can be the blessing of the maturity which turns knowledge into wisdom ... it can also be the blessing of the Innocence which is the embodiment of that wisdom. The turning of the wheel of time may be a the tool that can allow us to see our mistakes and correct them. It is the vehicle to help us gain wisdom and insight. Age may produce wrinkles on our bodies, but inside it delivers treasure. But, the image of wisdom doesn't have to produce wrinkles .. the outside can be a reflection of your acceptance of that inner transubstantion (Def: An act that changes the form or character or substance of something) Why is it that just after we are born and through our childhood innocence, our skin is smooth and clear .. yet when we return to that innocence after 60 or 70 years we may appear all wrinkled and dried out. Does this have to be so? The definition of age rests on the shoulders of each individual... in some cultures the oldest members of the family are considered the most valuable. In other parts of the world age is looked upon as a curse... where people must fight it to their death. Age is a part of life... to live is to age. But who can say who is really older? The terrified twenty year old, or the peaceful eighty year old? As we grow through our lives we evolve through different stages. Growth has its share of exhilaration and pain. As the saying goes, "no pain... no gain." Well, the pain is really the handling of how we get to the next phase of our life... changes are sometimes the hardest steps to go through until we look back and say "What was I so worried about?" Maybe the pain we experience could be looked on from a different perception .. under a different light? Wjat if the pain we are experiencing is merely the body telling us it is time to get rid of some program for which we have no further use? What if the pain of some long buried conflict or inner turmoil that has outlived its relevance in the return to Innocence? Bith, childhood, adolescence, teenage years, adulthood parenthood... senior citizen ... old age .. death. All stages of life as we have come to expect it. Or rather, each stage of life as we have been conditioned into believing it .. 'till death do us part .. and ashes return to ashes, dust to dust. Each stage as important as the next. But, inside we are timeless even if the face in the mirror changes. So let's not be afraid to laugh, play, stretch, and climb the mountain. It's all a learning game, after all. A classroom open 24 hours a day that teaches Love, Compassion, Harmony and Faith... it's just up to us to listen. The textbook is open to any age... if only you can accept the inner textbook that is the knowing of your own beingness, recorded in the deep unconscious of the living body. |
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