The Adventure of the Present Moment

Hey, everybody!

Just a quick check-in, from the road. I'm in the Atlanta airport -- bit of a wait -- after my week with my oldest son and two grandsons. The subject is life on this earth: doing what we can, and being blessed by all kinds of wonderful experiences -- like a chance to make conscious and heal old times, using one of the most incredible allies we could ever have: the Holotropic perspective. So, forgive my wonderings. I feel so grateful for my life in this moment, and I attribute so much of my healing to this gift that fell into Stan and Christina's lap.

I've been on the mat many times, my Inner Healer sweeping me back through this life. I'm not one who feels the biographical dimension is a lesser domain. In fact, as I've said often, I'd rather wrestle 10,000 demons from the nether worlds than face my family issues. The way I see it, all so-called deeper dimensions -- perinatal and transpersonal -- are enfolded holographically into the biography. It's all here, right now. The entire universe is down-stepped artistically and elegantly, by some grand force or legion of forces, right into this moment. I feel like an interface for one of the countless expressions of the Dance.

So, what happens for me now is that every moment of my life seems to be like lying on the mat. The Inner Healer is moment to moment orchestrating my life as an opportunity to heal, through the medium of awareness. It's my job to be awake as I can be, as open as I can be, to embrace each second as best I can, be that moment, surrender to it, and offer it up to my source of inspiration, on her terms and in her time. This is just my way. There are as many ways to do this as there are humans. But this is my story, and I'm sticking to it, til I'm shown something else.

And what happened for me this past week was like one of the most powerful breathworks I've ever experienced. What was the story? The emergence of old ghosts, a deep inventory of traumas of commission and omission -- I mean things that I did or didn't do for the people I was responsible for. The chance to own where I was at fault, to walk through life-threatening experiences from the dark past, make amends, become a new presence in the lives of people, some older and some very young, for whom I have a deep karmic responsibility, as well as a great love. To go deep, deep, to trust the healing power in each person, to clear the wreckage of the past, cement deep, life-changing and incredibly important relationships -- through the old, into the new. And to feel blessed and free and healed. To see others feel healed too, and to laugh, and to open the way for future joys.

Sound like a breathwork? Absolutely. One of the greatest gifts of the Holotropic perspective -- that my whole off-the mat life can be like a breathwork. That I am guided every moment of my life by the same power that guides me during a session. That I can be healed each second of my life, just as I can be transformed on the mat. That I am surrounded by allies, and powerful music each moment -- the song of awakening, a call from omega, or whatever, the siren call of transformation forever chiding me to awaken.

So, that's what happened in my beloved Southland. And I have the whole Holotropic community to thank for it -- this field we have all been a part of -- these healing forces from within us that have created some mysterious collective Inner Healing atmosphere in our lives, just as it does in a breathwork session. An atmosphere that just may be part of something way more profound and powerful than we can all imagine, and just might play some important part in a scheme for healing we really don't have much of a clue about. I mean, I'm positive I myself don't have much of a clue about it, but I'm grateful to be a part of it anyway. And as I said, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it, til another deeper truth reveals itself. And I'm pretty certain that's exactly what will happen. I'll continue to get confronted with something that blows me apart -- way out of my comfort zone. And why not? Because many of us seem to have a precedent for this sort of thing already, right?

I've been planning for a few years now to write my next book about these insights. How the Holotropic perspective can be a daily yoga. So, thanks for helping me to get fired up. But right now, I'm just grateful to Christina, Stan, and all of you, and to be part of this community. And for my Georgia family.