"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why"
We live in a world of go go go! There is a solution to every problem and we work our butts off to solve the problem at hand.
What I love about this training is that you have to realize and accept that there are not answers for everything you encounter. The body craves and responds to touch, and it doesn't have to be painful or by the fact of pushing tissue around. We rest a hand on someone's shoulder to help calm them down, because we empathize and want to comfort the person.
Sometimes in doing the work, we pause and feel into the tissue, hold the space and a lot of times, the body will change.
I know that that sounds crazy and hokey and woo woo, or however you want to describe it to yourself.... but there is something magical about it. Holding the intention and the space for the work often times is enough to get the ball rolling. Its really quite cool.
I hope everyone can experience a little magic in their lives, as I am lucky to be reminded of it daily.
Peace and Love
Megan
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Clarity
I am strangely calm.
We are over halfway through our unit two class, and have finished half of the series. I am feeling strangely calm. I love the work I am doing. I love how it is always different and that you can't explain everything. I love the people here. I love how energetic how the work can be, and how it is rooted in anatomy and science.
I guess... this is how you feel when you have found something good, like you belong.
I belong.
I have an amazing family who I love deeply. Amazing pets, and an amazing home.
I'm staying with an amazing couple here in Boulder, and spend my days with wonderful, caring people.
I am truly blessed, and for once in my life, I just feel calm, like I can smile and breathe and everything will be okay.
Thank you to everyone in my life, and my your days be as blessed as mine.
Peace and Love
We are over halfway through our unit two class, and have finished half of the series. I am feeling strangely calm. I love the work I am doing. I love how it is always different and that you can't explain everything. I love the people here. I love how energetic how the work can be, and how it is rooted in anatomy and science.
I guess... this is how you feel when you have found something good, like you belong.
I belong.
I have an amazing family who I love deeply. Amazing pets, and an amazing home.
I'm staying with an amazing couple here in Boulder, and spend my days with wonderful, caring people.
I am truly blessed, and for once in my life, I just feel calm, like I can smile and breathe and everything will be okay.
Thank you to everyone in my life, and my your days be as blessed as mine.
Peace and Love
Monday, February 13, 2012
Solitude
I've always been a bit of a loner. I've never had a lot of friends, and I've never ever been popular.
When I came here to Boulder the first time I was shocked to learn what people thought of me. I look at myself as a boring, quiet, wallflower, but the wonderful family I found here thought I was talented, amazing, and smart.
I guess its nice to get feedback like that sometimes.
So, I have always thought of myself as a loner and always wished that I had more friends. I have tried to (and have) made tons of new friends, but I'm still not that person you call up to hang out with if you have a choice.
I always thought that that was a bad thing.
Everyone needs some time to themselves now and again to reflect on life and just take it easy. The amount of time varies from person to person. I need a lot of solitude. It's not because I don't like people or anything negative, I just like to reflect and I like only having to worry about myself...
I'm glad that I realized this, because I don't want to be alone. I want to meet someone special someday, and I want to have kids someday. I either need to find a way to be ok with less solitude, or find someone that makes me want to spend time with them instead of being alone.
How much time do you need for yourself? Do you make time for yourself? If not you really ought to, its good for you :)
"Some people find salvation in everyone, others only pain..." ~Be Yourself by Audioslave
Peace and Love
When I came here to Boulder the first time I was shocked to learn what people thought of me. I look at myself as a boring, quiet, wallflower, but the wonderful family I found here thought I was talented, amazing, and smart.
I guess its nice to get feedback like that sometimes.
So, I have always thought of myself as a loner and always wished that I had more friends. I have tried to (and have) made tons of new friends, but I'm still not that person you call up to hang out with if you have a choice.
I always thought that that was a bad thing.
Everyone needs some time to themselves now and again to reflect on life and just take it easy. The amount of time varies from person to person. I need a lot of solitude. It's not because I don't like people or anything negative, I just like to reflect and I like only having to worry about myself...
I'm glad that I realized this, because I don't want to be alone. I want to meet someone special someday, and I want to have kids someday. I either need to find a way to be ok with less solitude, or find someone that makes me want to spend time with them instead of being alone.
How much time do you need for yourself? Do you make time for yourself? If not you really ought to, its good for you :)
"Some people find salvation in everyone, others only pain..." ~Be Yourself by Audioslave
Peace and Love
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Don't be the Missing Drop
Hard days make us stronger.
I find myself feeling overworked and stressed out. I think that may be because I have high expectations for myself. I am in Unit Two at the Rolf Institute, which is an eight week course. The first week was five days, and the remaining seven are only four, but it is run run run for nine hours a day. I am also attempting to take online classes while I'm here (I was worried I'd be bored in April and May when I am back at home in NC). I think I can handle all this work and stress, and to be honest, I'm cracking.
I am a homebody, and I miss my family, my pets, my friends, my roads, my campus, my life. I know my life right now is here and I'm living it fully, climbing multiple days a week and skiing at least one day on the weekends, but its nice to have some normalcy. I've been here a month, and I still have a month left of classes (and an extra week before I can go home).
I'm so blessed to have this opportunity to be here while I'm still in college, I just never though that it would be so much work.
But, on the other hand... today was a beautiful day :) We got a lot of snow the tail end of last week, and we got 2 or 3 more inches last night and snow fell all day (though it didn't stick). It was beautiful have a blanket of white everywhere and to be able to see it falling as I looked outside.
As I was driving to school this morning a big fat flake landed on my windshield. I could see the intricacies of this beautiful, delicate thing that causes so much anxiety and danger! It was awe inspiring to see how such a small thing could affect so much. I tried to take a picture to no avail.
I find it humbling to look up at the mountains here and realize how small you really are. I find it inspiring to look at such a small thing and realize that even that tiny flake can do so much, and many of these tiny flakes can create a beautiful landscape. It kind of reminds of that quote by Mother Theresa
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
Remember, what you are doing matters. You may not feel like you are making a difference, or that you are getting anywhere, but even if you smile at one person today, and they smile back, you are making their ocean a little bigger. We all don't have to move mountains, but we can all work together to see what we can do.
So, keep your chin up, persevere and start tomorrow as a new day, with new hopes and new challenges. Let your heart open and experience the world. Don't waste the day wishing you were something different or more. Be you and love you. You will thank you and so will those around you. Anyone reading this is a part of my world and it is a little brighter knowing that I may have the chance to share what I learn.
Peace and Love
I find myself feeling overworked and stressed out. I think that may be because I have high expectations for myself. I am in Unit Two at the Rolf Institute, which is an eight week course. The first week was five days, and the remaining seven are only four, but it is run run run for nine hours a day. I am also attempting to take online classes while I'm here (I was worried I'd be bored in April and May when I am back at home in NC). I think I can handle all this work and stress, and to be honest, I'm cracking.
I am a homebody, and I miss my family, my pets, my friends, my roads, my campus, my life. I know my life right now is here and I'm living it fully, climbing multiple days a week and skiing at least one day on the weekends, but its nice to have some normalcy. I've been here a month, and I still have a month left of classes (and an extra week before I can go home).
I'm so blessed to have this opportunity to be here while I'm still in college, I just never though that it would be so much work.
But, on the other hand... today was a beautiful day :) We got a lot of snow the tail end of last week, and we got 2 or 3 more inches last night and snow fell all day (though it didn't stick). It was beautiful have a blanket of white everywhere and to be able to see it falling as I looked outside.
As I was driving to school this morning a big fat flake landed on my windshield. I could see the intricacies of this beautiful, delicate thing that causes so much anxiety and danger! It was awe inspiring to see how such a small thing could affect so much. I tried to take a picture to no avail.
I find it humbling to look up at the mountains here and realize how small you really are. I find it inspiring to look at such a small thing and realize that even that tiny flake can do so much, and many of these tiny flakes can create a beautiful landscape. It kind of reminds of that quote by Mother Theresa
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
Remember, what you are doing matters. You may not feel like you are making a difference, or that you are getting anywhere, but even if you smile at one person today, and they smile back, you are making their ocean a little bigger. We all don't have to move mountains, but we can all work together to see what we can do.
So, keep your chin up, persevere and start tomorrow as a new day, with new hopes and new challenges. Let your heart open and experience the world. Don't waste the day wishing you were something different or more. Be you and love you. You will thank you and so will those around you. Anyone reading this is a part of my world and it is a little brighter knowing that I may have the chance to share what I learn.
Peace and Love
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Slacking off...
One post and already I find myself slacking off!!
So much has happened in the past .... 4 months! I turned 21 which was super exciting! I decided to come back to Boulder in January for my unit two. I found love, lost love, found hope again. :)
So I've been back in Boulder for a whole MONTH now! It has been a whirlwind. I've been skiing...
Trying on silly hats
Climbing, going to class (oh right), and trying to kill myself with my online classes back at home.
So!! I figured I'd share this with all you cool kids out there. Well, first a quick backstory!! Today I got up and went to ski a half day at a mountain about 45 minutes from me. We had a huge snow storm Thursday-Saturday and Eldora got dumped on! 31 inches in two days I think. Anyway, after that I was sposed to meet some of the gang at the climbing gym and then have a bracelet making party. Apparently I missed the memo that no one was going to the gym, so I went and climbed for about an hour and then went home and made a bracelet!! here is the tutorial. It is really simple and wonderful and looks great :) I made mine a double wrap. I'll put up pictures on the next post (hopefully tomorrow or the next day, I have lots of new insights to share)
Peace and Love
Megan
So much has happened in the past .... 4 months! I turned 21 which was super exciting! I decided to come back to Boulder in January for my unit two. I found love, lost love, found hope again. :)
So I've been back in Boulder for a whole MONTH now! It has been a whirlwind. I've been skiing...
So!! I figured I'd share this with all you cool kids out there. Well, first a quick backstory!! Today I got up and went to ski a half day at a mountain about 45 minutes from me. We had a huge snow storm Thursday-Saturday and Eldora got dumped on! 31 inches in two days I think. Anyway, after that I was sposed to meet some of the gang at the climbing gym and then have a bracelet making party. Apparently I missed the memo that no one was going to the gym, so I went and climbed for about an hour and then went home and made a bracelet!! here is the tutorial. It is really simple and wonderful and looks great :) I made mine a double wrap. I'll put up pictures on the next post (hopefully tomorrow or the next day, I have lots of new insights to share)
Peace and Love
Megan
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