Coming Home to Whole!

My son-in-law walked the kids to the bus this morning and I happened to be standing at the sliding door watching them leave, waving good bye. It was early morning. By the time he returned, the light had changed and I happened to catch a rare view of the Grand in early morning light.

It is Fall in the Tetons now, though a bit white, it resembles winter already. The pumpkins are out, promising treats for the little ones, ghosts hanging in doorways for tricks, goblins excited about foraging. The sunkissed Aspens have turned beyond gold, the sky hazy, clouds forbearing a return to the long winter's night here in this ever Grand Valley.

My life is so full! I have wanted to blog too long wondering what to write, picking a subject, a focus, something of value to share. I realized, having taken the challenge to just begin, that enough has been segmented, compartmentalized, separated out from what is naturally whole. A nutritionist friend of mine, when asked whether to drink low fat or no fat simply said, "Go Whole!" I like that. "Whole", it turns out is the way it was made, not by man or mind but by nature. "Whole" my friend went on to say, "has all the information in it that your body needs to sort it all out!"  "Whole" is where we start and "Whole" is where we want to get back to.

I got off a webinar at Health Coaching University this morning having heard that one of my classmates has a seriously broken arm and I wrote to her about the Bach Flower "Rescue Remedy", about "Elm" and about "Olive" and how I take them together because when I am shocked by something (Rescue Remedy), I get overwhelmed (Elm) and when I feel overwhelmed, I get exhausted (Olive) and each of these "Remedies" has information about that particular piece of the "Whole", information to help me keep my balance when it seems something has thrown it off.

I also shared a time before I had major abdominal surgery when my NLP coach told me that the body does not know the difference between what is real and what is imagined and that if I walked it through rehersal after rehersal of the surgery, detail by detail, by the time I got there, it would have been through it so many times, it would experience it as a walk in the park. I did and it worked for me.

Information is right here now waiting to be asked. It has always been right here now. We "think" it out of sight, out of mind, out of heart. That does not mean it has gone anywhere. Held in the Matrix, we only need to ask, we only need to allow, we only need to welcome it into the fullness of our being - conscious or unconscious, known or unknown, familiar or unfamiliar.

An airline pilot told me once that when you fly from point A to point Z, you are never flying in a straight line. You veer to the right, correct your path, come back to center, veer to the left, correct again. So, this Blog I have now begun is about getting back to where I started and knowing the place for the first time over and over and over. It is about re-setting a critical balance lost in segments of this and not that. It is about Coming Home to Whole even though whole for me includes a lot of "different" avenues, seemingly separate, seemingly impossible, seemingly unbearable.

As I journey with you this Coming Home to Whole, I hope some of what I share will help you find your way back to that balance that includes everything in your life past, present and future, everything known and unknown; I hope it will support you in maintaining that balance no matter how precarious; and I hope it will assist in staying the course, aligning again and again when change happens, which it will, whether you like it or not.

Here's to treats for all the parts of us that are goblins at heart, knocking on doors of neighbors and friends, sharing some joy and savoring the parts that, disguised or undisguised want, more than anything, to return to Coming Home to Whole!