By Kevin McEvenue
In this seventh preamble in the series I call The Doors of Perception, what is explored is the issue of power and the need for control—and how I have struggled with this conflict most of my life, passionately wanting something and holding back, that stops me with equal measure.
Again, I am being transparent in living in a direct experience of my own history as I give voice to these events from childhood to the present day and how the conflict is gradually resolving, offering something fresh, better than imagined! Humpty Dumpty, (wholebodyfocusing.com), is a witness to all those shattered pieces coming together—amazingly. My Humpty Dumpty came into the world with an intuitive kind of Perception, awakened very early in life: an encounter with a cat—not on a hot tin roof—but a cat looking for warmth right there, a warm breath, sitting on my mouth, stopping my breath that early spring morning! I am in a baby crib, outdoors alone in the fresh air.
It seems that much of my life was preoccupied with just that, holding back, tensing my body to hold back, not feel, not say. No room for the joy of the flow of just being, just being me. It seemed to suppress that deeper empowerment, that part of me that does know something and wants to have a life of its own. It still does! The fear of life seems to overwhelm the joy of living. That became my reality, my preoccupation to stop, to control and prevent. “I mustn’t!” There was no room for anything else, namely, to enjoy my own empowerment, there to be loved and appreciated.
Gradually the confusion is beginning to clear as my inner wisdom is finding its way through this apparent conflict. It needed rebuilding a whole new structure, starting from the bottom up, finding my feet, rather than trying to function from a top down that just didn’t fit. Gradually I am emerging as the person I know and love. This is me, coming home to me! The Love of me!
There is a lot here – just to breath fully and deeply…… a journey from the confusion of childhood with the confliction of knowing what you want and I mustn’t to now “Gradually I am emerging as the person I know and love. This is me, coming home to me! The Love of me!” Grateful to hear you share.
Thank you Kitt. I remember having that same felling in Montreal. I was there on the first day in April that was warm and sunny one year. Even though it wasn’t really warm, people were out in the street in droves, many of them in bathing suits! They seem to want the sun on their skin after a long winter. Every turn of a corner brought us to a scene of people interacting with the climate. It was a real joyful day! Our job is just to notice it.
Thanks Kitt!