Four Universal Balms for Healing Our Self & the World

I’ve read many blogs, Facebook posts, and news articles about the dire spots we find ourselves in.  But, I don’t want to focus on the problem…I want to suggest a possible long term resolution to what many call the human condition.  What do I call it? Living with abject unawareness.

This week an amazing quote happened into my inbox — thanks to gratefulness.org.  Gabrielle Roth reminds us “dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence are the four universal balms.”  Universal balms or the long term resolution? I would suggest both. 

How can these four balms bring us into greater awareness?

Let’s begin with the environment — silence.  For me, silence is not a place without noise, but a way of being in which we find clarity and answers.  Resting in silence encourages us to be aware, to notice.  It wraps us in a warm embrace, nurturing us, and preparing us in the very ground of our being to act compassionately and without reserve.

Within this space of silence we can hear, feel, see, taste, and smell the rhythm of the universe as it coaxes us to match our rhythm to it.  We flow, we move to the beat.  We are dancing with life.  When we are attuned to the universal rhythm, even in times of challenge we are able to connect to and rest in our silence.  Here we learn, laugh, and dance surrounded by love.

The rhythm of our dance vibrates along our vocal cords.  Heart opened, we sing a new song to the Sacred — to the extraordinary in our life.  We sing because our song needs to be heard.  We sing in harmony with all in the world.  In this harmony lies the possibility of peace.

We create our life story as we sing and dance.  Through our telling we share our hopes and dreams, our sorrow and suffering, and our wisdom and grace.  As each of us shares our own unique story, we form community.  

So today, in this moment, I want to be like Dewitt Jones and focus on what is right with the world.  Let’s not ignore the challenges we are presented with as individuals and as community.  But, let’s not dwell on this darkness that feeds on our fears and angst and anger.  Let’s commit to dancing, singing, and storytelling in the silence so that we may be beacons that banish the darkness to the spaces beyond.

Dancing, Singing, and Storytelling in Silence,

Vanessa

Vanessa is a Community Builder, Intuitive Healer, and Compassionista Author of Engaging Compassion Through Intent & Action

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