Growth - A Spiritual Story
I consider growth as an opportunity to become more spiritually awakened, and to be honest, I didn’t always feel that way. It changed for me while at a retreat in a Southern California massage school, where I was a student of deliberate touch…………..
There was an odd set of circumstances happening in massage school, at the retreat that was part of the curriculum. The retreat was 3 days, with no chocolate, caffeine or junk food of any sort. I remembered it well, because my diet wasn’t the healthiest when I went and I was concerned about how I would feel on such a clean eating plan for 3 days.
We stayed 3 students to a cabin, set around a lake in Central coast California. The massage work was held in a much larger communal cabin, that we all shared.
The retreat was a finale to all the months of work we had accumulated knowledge in.
Music played, incense burned and the instructor/owner of the school wandered round the large cabin speaking instructions aloud to the whole group on day one.
We all slid into our lumpy mattresses, on creaky bed frames in our sleeping bags, completely relaxed and exhausted.
Day two the owner/instructor gave us more freedom to work by first inviting the recipients of the first massage to blindfold the givers and wander around the outside of the cabins, with them in nature, and then lead them to the cabin and the massage tables already set up, to conduct a blindfold massage. It was very powerful and we all felt our senses coming to life.
There were lots of emotional releases on the tables, and a glowing energy field began to form as a result. People were blissed out, as though they’d walked through a portal or wormhole of some sort.
The rest of us (I was one) sort of wanted to know what that experience was like and sort of didn’t at all.
My next massage time was to be me as recipient.
I walked my therapist around in nature, getting her hands to touch rocks, water, trees and more, then walked her into the cabin and to the massage table. I lay down, expecting to feel relaxed after such a mindful walk in the woods. As I lay down, I started to feel my own vortex. I was being buried alive, facing my own death. I was terrified, grew cold and clammy and wept heavily.
The next thing I knew, the owner/instructor was at our table soothing and rocking me on one side, while I came back, knowing it was all going to be ok.
I had somehow faced my own death and returned with a blissful feeling of being alive.
I felt my own glow.
I was happy to be on earth and felt really gentle and soothed.
It was one of the greatest growth experiences I’d every had and it changed me forever.
I was no longer scared of death in the same way.
I was also way more tuned in.
I grew on that table.
My spirit was with my physical and there was no more separation.
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