It affects everyone!

It affects everyone!
Three Baskets of Asheville

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Letting go . . .

"Letting Go" was the theme of my week-long workshop at Mercy St. Vincent's hospital in Toledo, Ohio. It could not have been more appropriate of a theme as at this time in my life as I am letting go of so many things - a virtual "free fall" where at times I think I will never land . . .

This workshop was a five day hospital intensive for oncology massage. There were five of us in the class, and two instuctors. We spent five days applying gentle massage and comfort touch to those suffering from cancer, among many other things. We worked both in an inpatient and in an outpatient facility. I summarized my thoughts for the week today at our sharing at the end of our workshop:

This week has brought me to a new level of confidence and comfortability in my massage work that I did not expect . . . it has allowed me to apply my knowledge, and to tap into parts of myself that have been left dormant for many years.

I have also been made aware that there is so much more to learn; I am excited to begin this new journey in my life.

As I shared with my classmates and instructors in the beginning of the workshop, I knew this week was both a beginning and an end for me - I have been working diligently on letting go of my old roles and my old life where I walked for years as though asleep.

I am sitting today in the hospital lobby and I liken this week to the turnstile doors rotating before me - I stepped in with only a shadow of an idea of where these doors would lead and now I am stepping out back into the world and into a new beginning.

I have had guardian angels by my side to guide me all week - my classmates, my instructors, the hospital staff and most important of all, the patients - those that allowed me into their personal space, and whose beings were open to their own healing and letting go.

I am grateful for this amazing experience, and for being able to embrace "letting go".