To prepare for our family move west, we held a garage sale every weekend in thesummer of 2010. Balloons were purchased and tied to the garage sale sign to attract customers. Often the balloons would tie together because of the wind or cars passing by causing the balloons to fall. When I noticed, patiently, I unwound the balloons. Happy seeing them floating upward once again, I walked away, only to turn around and see them tying together again, falling.
This morning my husband was watching old interviews with Steve Jobs. In the video I could see he was sick- skinny, pale, hallowed eyes. Here he is, a genius as many say of him. I type now on one of his amazing works of art- and yet- he is ill, and, as we know dies of cancer only just a few months ago. As I listened to him, two words came to me fatal disconnect.
What was the fatal disconnect for Mr. Jobs? What is ours? When I kept returning to the tangled balloons, patiently, diligently untying them so they could be free, the work to do so reminded me of the work I do within my soul. Moment after moment, untying myself from what could turn into a fatal disconnect, a cutting off of energy, of life, of insight and intuition into what is obstructing my flow.
This said, I have declared 2012 to be the year of our Great Untying. A time when we, I hope, get so sick of looking outside of ourselves and look within- to ask, to seek, to wonder, to know: what is troubling us; what is keeping us in the harbor; what is weighing us down; preventing our uprising, our freedom, our calling…?
Inside the soul are many ruthless knots that have been formed over years, perhaps lifetimes. The task to untie seems daunting, but to untie, we must. We can work now or we can work later. We can work consciously and assist in this untying or we can resist and deny and passively wait for life to give us what we need, in what might be a fatalistic turn of events. It turned out I needed a car accident. Not one that took the life of myself or my children and mother who were in the car with me, but one that was enough to wake me up to the next chapter of my life.
Whatever way we decide to wake up this year, through a conscious connection to our own awakening or to an unconscious devotion to keeping life the same, let us know we are not alone. Within us is a cosmic support system. Assisting us is Mother Nature and all of her gifts and lessons of the cycles of death and rebirth. There, constantly is the Friend within. She loves you. Supports you. Guides you. Seek Her. She is there.
In Toy Story is a song: you have a friend in me. You have a friend in me….I always change the words to: I have a friend in me. I have a friend in me….YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN YOU. Rumi calls it the Beloved. Others call it God or Christ Within or the Atman or The Buddha-Self or the Self. Whatever- it’s a Friend worth knowing and the only work worth doing here. “Know Thyself.” This is not some narcissistic pursuit. It is the pursuit of the Self, which sits within the Soul, and within that soul are layers begging for our attention, and that Friend assists along the way.
Ultimate freedom is within as are many ruthless knots. Therefore, this year let us not neglect this opportunity to begin, or for others to continue, this Great Untying so that we may come more fully alive.
Happy New Year to all of you.
Namaste,
Nikki Di Virgilio, The Soul Reporter
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