remember

The past holds answers to present challenges. Moving about through time, patterns emerge. Old ways of coping or not, show up again.

A past friend told me "to be gentle" with myself. This is beautiful advice...for us all...

I am presently falling a bit into fear...of the unfamiliar, of falling itself, of having left friends and family, of not knowing myself, of not having answers, of lack of control...I am feeling ungrounded and yet I know this place from past years...I know this place of fear very well...

And I know it is but the opposite side of joy and delight. I know the coming AND the passing of "good" and "bad." And I know the beauty in being able to experience the true and wide range of human emotion.

Awareness of emotion...allowance for distress...humility in happiness...receive without condition what it is that comes your way...

self-knowledge through repetition and pattern...

fear of fear breeds panic and reaction...soft, gentle allowance of fear breeds response, learning, acceptance, self-soothing...