Hi Juli, Oct 12, 2009
Just had to share a little but big thing with you. After you left my daughter and I went and worked out at the health club. Would you believe that my starting heart rate was 7 points lower than I've ever seen it in the last 2 years. I've asked several times why my heart rate starts so high and I always get "everyone is different." Well I now know it was STRESS. Not that I've got rid of it all but I dumped enough to lower my heart rate. Thanks again for coming.
With love & appreciation
DP************************************************************************************This note is from a family that I have just spent 2 1/2 days with. It is unchanged, other than the names.
I was honored and humbled yet again by an invitation to enter into a family home, their hearts and spirit again this past weekend.
A family who has decided that the anger, the violence, the fear and the
loneliness is killing all of them, literally, and that it is time to change, now.... not tomorrow, not next week, but now.
This family opened their minds and their hearts, tangible and intangible to the possibility of literally changing their minds and changing their lives by working to change their brain and physical body first.
As we explored the rage, the isolation, the hostility and the
assaultiveness verbally, emotionally and physically that has been going on in this family for years, generations~ we also explored the spirit that they were each born
with, that has been buried deeply inside each of them only out of protection and the need to uncover, to dig out that true spirit again so that LIFE may be restored.
Over 2 very intensive, exhausting days, we practiced right there and then, how to :
~lower blood pressure
~lower heart rate
~increase blood flow to the brain, heart and vital organs
~find that spirit deep within
~uncover reasons for becoming who we have become that had been hidden
~the power of grace, forgiveness and understanding in healing
I became yet again a student of recovery and healing as I watched a 14 year old(abuse so
hideous that many would not believe even if I described it in detail...your brain would shut out your ability to comprehend what some experiences do to the heart, the spirit and the soul of a little child) cuddle next to her adoptive father for the first time in a very long time; and as he prepared a bottle for her, yes a bottle(email me if you need more information on this one!) and the tears fall as we helped her gently open back up to the pain hidden so far away for so long.
I was honored to be able to observe love, empathy, compassion and grace flow through this family as they shared the living room floor, all connected by hand, arm, spirit and faith.
I was drawn to my own tears as their pain came and subsided, presented, went back to hiding and came back yet again through words, tears, physical sensations foreign to them and stayed long enough for them to be able to uncover how it is a loving adoptive family, desiring only peace and
tranquility, have become a breeding ground for perpetuating only more pain.
Today, though, today they are breathing a bit easier, they are steeped in a deeper understanding of the way that life has brushed up against them, and in knowing that life is life is life and is not going away. It is, from this moment forward, what we do with that life as it continues to brush up against us that will matter.
As they review the legacy they each scripted during our time together, today they begin anew, are reborn, are fresh in the spirit.
Nobody is beyond the hope of healing, nobody. We are all privy to the life of sanctuary that we so long for. We may just need some help to get there.
I am tired, yet I am strengthened. I long to have a day off now, yet to get back to those families and children in search of peace. I too, am renewed, reborn and rekindled after a weekend of learning for me.
If you need help, please reach out, today~ for the children, for you.
Peace,
Juli
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