Hallo from Judith - testing how blogging works. Stand by for my first thoughts - if any ever actually come!
Of course, my thoughts are always going to be to do with people who are feeling troubled, or hurting, frightened, nervous - anything that causes them internal worry and stress.
During all my years of working with traumatised people I have begun to see that these things, all of them, are triggered and fed by a deep need for more information. Waiting for medical test results; wondering where the cat is; not having heard from loved ones far away; ... and most of all, in response to the big question 'How long have I got?' the answer 'We don't know'. You begin an almost desperate search for more and more information, and all the while the internal worries and stresses are growing and growing.
And then there is a miraculous feeling when a small ray of light appears, a calm settles over you and you can say 'Now I understand' or there is simply a cessation of this driving need to search and search. It's as if there are systems in-built into the human design that tells you what you need to do next, where to go, and once that need has been met.
There are many times when the information gathered simply takes you into the next layer of concern, but that first layer has been dealt with.
I see that this is a natural progression for all human beings - it's what we see drives the small child to question everything and learn. As the child feels that inner knowing that, for the minute, that is enough, so do adults pursue and then find respite when whatever is driving the search for 'What;s next' is - even temporarily - satisfied.
It is this inner need 'to know' that takes us to the Internet, the library, the encyclopedia, someone who knows - and the need lets us know when we have enough - for the time being.
What a marvel, the human design. Too many people have lost touch with their innermost feelings, that always seek to guide each of us towards where we, individually, need to go next. It makes you wonder; if we were to slow down and listen to what our internal workings are telling us, and then act on that knowing, how much more aligned and in harmony with ourselves, we all might be. And how much in harmony with all things that surround us and uphold our lives.
Hmmm! This 'blogging' is a far better way to wake up and ffind yourself alive than rushing around in the pressure of 'I should' and 'I ought'
Which makes me wonder, what other systems there are in our internal make-up that we don't pay attention to
So, onwards I go into today and whatever it might bring...
