Unwanted Changes

Today I sat with the wind.

I steadied my spine. Grounded into my seat. And breathed.

As I followed my breath, I felt my spine lengthen. I felt my body become taller, more open in my chest, heavier in my pelvis. 

I felt the earth’s groundedness beneath me, supporting me.

I felt the sky’s expansiveness all around me.

I listened for the wind to help me release my resistance to unwanted changes.

Wind is good medicine for removal of unwanted energies. When wind is in balance, it can help purify. It shapes the matter of things with its unruly force. It helps us learn how to steady ourselves and be more grounded in times of unbridled change.

Wind is the physical element of change in motion. Invisible to the eye, it impacts the way you feel and see the world around you. To learn from this deified wonder we must be able to take a stand, to grow viable roots, and face what keeps our body rigid and our mind inflexible.

Whatever is fixed breaks under pressure.

Notice for yourself, what conditioned constructs and/or ways of being are breaking for you? Look around you, what is breaking open due to change? Where might you be holding on too tight? What is needed to help steady yourself?

If we sit with these questions long enough we may begin to see that the current situation contains an accumulation of multiple breaks along the way. It may feel like one big break in a wave of shock, like a tree splitting in half. But anything with magnitude comes with patterns that have been built overtime.

There are other more helpful patterns and timelines here to be aware of. Not to mention the importance of your inner states and how resourced and supported you feel. The risk of unruly (out of balance) wind is a mind untethered unable to make practical, empowered choices.

With such a collective wave of emotion, the overwhelm may render us feeling helpless. Yet, there are other ways we can work with what is here if we can stay present to what is.

What is conscious and less conscious create one another simply because they are in relationship. How do we use what is less conscious and more fragmented to create greater cohesion, resilience, clarity, and connection, so that we can have greater agency, autonomy, and direction in our life?

Wind will reveal where the fissures are in any structure. When uninhibited it will continue to sever and uproot what no longer works anymore to uphold the forms that will sustain.

There is healthy wind. There is unhealthy wind. When wind is out of balance in your system it can cause feelings of overwhelm and anxiety. Adding to stressors that cause mental confusion, distress and over reactivity.

If you feel your mind has not been able to stop spinning an endless race of stressful thoughts you may want to check in with your capacity for ground. If you’re feeling anxious and ungrounded, it can be an opportunity to work with the breath and help stabilize the mind. To consciously and effectively work with the movement of wind in the body to redirect it to a more balanced flow within yourself.

In times of unruly change finding practices that help you ground and center are essential. When wind teaches you through its force it is time to find the steadiness you have from within. This is a time to ground, a time to notice the reactivity, to come back to presence, and choose a more resourceful (less negative) response instead.