I am going to start a new series to bring to the awareness
of myself the many gifts I have been given and are given in life, so much of my
mind and self is occupied on the negative parts of life, but not so much is
looked and realized in the gifts that are ever present here in life if I but
become aware of them. This we all can do and I will open this point up more for
myself so I can become more clear in what this means for me as this was brought
up in a leadership chat I participated in today. The topic was about when
someone passes for instance that is close to you, we normally focus on the loss
of the person or animal, which is relevant and ok for grieving purposes, but
also to realize and remember that the life that was lived (in this instance) had
gifts within it one can learn from and live within their own lives, which
honors the person/pet that lived and supports others to do the
same. So it was a cool point and
interesting as I so much have been focusing on the lose/death/unknown of life
not realizing and seeing that there is life here as gifts that are real and
practical and can be learned to support with solutions to grow and expand as ourselves as life.
So my first relationship that I want to open up this point
with is one that I can say is individual or personal to myself/alone and
different in the sense that it’s not riddled with emotional and feeling energy
in the way of drama/entertainment/extravaganza as human relationships can go so
to say, this relationship is with Henri my dog. Everyone that knows me knows
how much Henri means to me and how close we are with each other, I have made
him my companion since the day I got him when he was 8 weeks old and have been
with him every since. Though he is an animal, it’s been a unique relationship
because of this very fact, he is an animal and is not like a human, so for me
it’s a different vintage point, a different perspective, a different way of
living that I align with very nicely and I enjoy immensely.
I am not pure within this relationship as I can see my
dependency on him at times where I will go to him for comfort or to have a
moment of ‘escape’ of the pressures that are existing in the ‘human’ world so
to speak, and so there are points I must walk through still to support myself
to be stable here with humans and animals alike. With Henri there is an aspect
of care I enjoy as I am responsible for his care and he depends on me for it,
so he is supporting me to give as I would like to receive every day I am with
him and this supports a lot with expansion in self giving and releasing self
interest. So we support each other in different ways though there is a
stability and equality existed within it as we walk together which is quite in
interesting point to live in this way. He stands as a point of stability for a
moment for me to see what that in fact means, all animals in there own way
stand as this point I have found, most all of the one’s I have met from horses,
to chickens, to birds, to cats, there is a sense of groundedness as well as the
fact that they are physical, they are here, they are simple in terms of their
requirements in living though they all have a unique expression and life within
them that is very real and natural.
One point specific with Henri that I wanted to bring up here
that is more a prominent gift he has shown me is the unconditional way in which
he approaches others in my life. Many if not all dogs do have this aspect about
them where they will approach most people without any hesitation, if they sense
something’s off, they will hesitate in terms of danger or something in this
line, but the people I have had a hard time with for instance in my personal
life, he unconditional approaches and supports the person with his expression,
and this does not change from one to the next. Regardless of what and how the
person behaves or acts, Henri in these moments shows me what it means to be
unconditional because when I see this and realize it when it’s happening, I say
to myself ‘man, he just goes up and plays/has fun, loves on, and supports
them’, there is no thought, no emotion or judgment, it just is a stable
approach of enjoyment/play/fun as his expression without regard of who the
person is in the sense of how I would approach them with thoughts, judgements,
reactions, I couldn’t fathom the thought of doing what Henri does at times when
it’s hectic.
So out of a lot of gifts I have been given with Henri on
this path together for a moment, the unconditonalness of his expression is one
that has had more of an impact on me because of the fact that I don’t see
anything like this anywhere in the ‘human’ world. It’s so pure and innocent, so
it’s an awesome example and gift I have been given through Henri’s expression
in this case of what this looks like and how to live it. It’s a process
obviously to stand as this point, but it is possible as the animal demonstrates
here for example, and in blogs to come I will walk self forgiveness and self
commitments on this point of uncondtionalness for more clarity and specificity on
how to live this, but this to open the point up.
Thanks for reading!
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