On the spiritual path we can either be overly focused on getting straight to the Source and realizing enlightenment — or get caught in the endless loop of healing, missing the point that what we are is something far beyond the personal self.

Transcendence is meant to be tasted and realized so that this truth can live in our bodies, through our lives, saturating our being and how we move through the world. And often, we mistakenly assume that enlightenment will automatically heal all the unaddressed pieces of our life.

I look at healing as a digestion of all that’s come before this moment. It’s true that all there is is this moment. Yet our bodies and psyches need to catch up, metabolize, and integrate our karmic imprints and knots. In doing so, we get the release and liberation we seek.

Our physical body, subtle body, and our psyche hold pain and misunderstandings we have not yet metabolized. Maybe we were too young to make sense of what happened. Maybe we shut down and checked out. Maybe we simply weren’t as conscious and mature. But now we can meet our past and assimilate what once seemed too big to do so.

When the gift and grace of awakening occurs, we go beyond the individual we appear to be. But we also have a chance to finally welcome home the parts of our being that have been abandoned, dismissed, stifled, and shamed away.

And when we engage in healing while also exploring the contemplative path in spirituality, which reveals enlightenment, we can integrate as the formless and form we simultaneously are.

This paradoxical embrace of our wounds with the loving vastness of our Sprit - which has never been wounded - becomes embodied, awake living. We are integrated beings, welcoming our humanity into the spacious arms of our own primordial nature, which has never been separate from Source.

Recorded as part of the Weekly Group Meditation. Healing, contemplative, heart opening, with a supportive energetic transmission.