This is Day 9 for me in my 11-day jaunt in Halifax. One woman after the other, waking up – to themselves, to the truth that fills their body and is pressing to get out, to their potential – and they are going further, faster and staying deeper, longer. The pace at which their lives are changing is quite amazing, even to me. And I’ve been in this process for a very long time.
As the pieces come together for me (as they have come together for so many others, recognizing an acceleration in our global, collective experience), I am mindful of this acceleration. It presents as an intensity of desire to live differently; to live more fully and in a way that is personally meaningful to each individual. It shows itself in the degree of willingness to come face-to-face with those truths that lie just below the surface – always present but never quite looked at directly. Glances, perhaps, from time to time but nothing too clear, too precise or too bold in its recognitions. After all, such discovery would demand change.
And change they do! Tone of voice changes, as does cadence of speech. Silence and ‘niceties’ are swapped for frank, open, honest and clear. Choices become more important than history, habit or myth. What causes shuffling and the need to look away on the first day, becomes an open and welcoming curiosity and invitation for more. They really can handle it – and now they know that, too.
Why is it so hard for women to just tell the truth?
Breathing is good…..
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