“Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.”
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Jean Michel's last words to me about helping my mum had resonated. While travelling home I'd planned out my mum's support campaign, comprising: -
1. Reiki treatments on mum
2. Sharing with her the Meditation music
3. Video watching: What the Bleep, Law of Attraction
4. Giving her reading materials by Louise Hay
5. Showing her the daily Gratitude practise
Having a 'Plan' is my default mode for managing any crisis. Having a plan makes me feel like the impossible is possible and insurmountable problems are now in bite sized chunks.
In my opinion the biggest flaw in my plan was my mum's lack of knowledge about
metaphysics or self-healing. I was pretty certain that whilst mildly open
minded she wouldn't be able to break the victim mode of living that was hard
wired into her from decades of battling with life's challenges. Fortunately I know nothing! Mum was to prove me wrong, very wrong.
On the Monday after I returned from holiday, whilst we were all back at
work, and my husband was working away, I asked mum to came and stay for a few
days. Time to put the campaign into action.
The 'magic coffee' I offered her, she took to like a duck to water with none of the side effects that I was experiencing and I felt conflicted: pleased and a little jealous!
Step 1 - was in place!
Each evening she came with me in the car, to visit the horses. Whilst driving she was a captive audience, and so I played some of my new age, metaphysical audio clips through the car, ones given to me by Jean Michel. She listened to them quietly and intelligently, with a close concentration that I wasn't expecting from her.
Step 2 - also in place!
Much of mum's emotional pain over the last 3 decades was rooted in her second marriage. Long story short she lives a tough, imprisoned life and can't mention her husband's name without anger and rage surging through her veins. This presented many opportunities to share my knowledge about the link between healthy mind and healthy body. The more she felt negativity and anger the more her body would not heal. This too seemed to sink in and quickly she was trying to think positively and catching herself when not!
Step 3 - was in motion!
One afternoon, I lay my Yoga mat on the back lawn. It was a
gorgeous sunny September day, warm with a plentiful blue sky. I was
working in my garden based office studio with the doors open and the dogs at my
feet. Mum appeared from the house and as if invited, lay on the mat in
the sun. I suggested she move to a quiet spot under the cover of
trees.
She lay down and rested. Reiki and meditation was as yet the outstanding step in the process. Quick as a flash I took my I Phone and lying it at her side, played Jean Michel's Reiki healing music and let her sleep (accompanied by Pasha the most loving affectionate dog you've ever met)!
She lay down and rested. Reiki and meditation was as yet the outstanding step in the process. Quick as a flash I took my I Phone and lying it at her side, played Jean Michel's Reiki healing music and let her sleep (accompanied by Pasha the most loving affectionate dog you've ever met)!
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| Pasha and Mum - deep healing sleep! |
Over an hour later she
woke up. She couldn't believe how rested she felt - "deeply
rested" she said. She then also realised that since staying at my house
that week, she had been going to bed at 10pm each night like me, and was
sleeping till 8, 9am the next day. This is an unheard of sleep pattern
for mum who usually is up till midnight, unable to sleep, restless and awake.
This felt like good news.
Mum was feeling good.
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