Earlier this week, one of my mentors was talking about the lessons she learned while windsurfing. As she shared her own learnings, she encouraged us to identify the ‘teachers’ in our life who speak to us from that place beyond words and time.
Here are some of mine.
Becoming a mother changed me in ways I couldn’t have fathomed, often pushing me way outside my comfort zone. It still does. The beings who are my children are relentlessly teaching me about them, but really about life and myself. Is it always easy, nope. Would I have it any other other way knowing what it really involves? The honest answer is no. The hidden richness and depth of life is only revealed through experiences that require us to grow and evolve into our full selves.
There are times in life when the school of life is a bitter pill, tough to swallow, and we have no choice but to take it. Our whole worldview is being changed at the most fundamental level and everything we believe comes into question. It’s a dark night of the soul. This phenomenon turns our perfect world upside down and throws us into chaos so we can get to the deeper truth of who we really are. It’s a hero/heroine’s journey of epic proportions. Martha Beck describes it as a ‘situation in which h the whole world takes on a soul teachers role’. ‘ Extremely disturbing, culturally unacceptable, wild’, their job is to hold a mirror to our shadows and free ourselves of our limited understanding of ourselves.
Like grief can. There is such an unexpected, awe inspiring beauty in grieving fully. Modern humans cheat ourselves out of this by not allowing ourselves to go there.
And then there’s the puppy. Our puppy is a blessing who transmits innocent joyful spontaneity like an enlightened master. She knows the art of being utterly relaxed indoors and engaging wholeheartedly when chasing rabbits at full speed in a field. Learning tricks from the dog in this case.
Who are the Soul teachers in your life?
What lessons are you learning from them?
With love on your journey to self discovery and embracing all parts of yourself.
Link to an introduction to the heroes journey : https://youtu.be/GNPcefZKmZ0
