Awareness is a funny thing.  You do not know that you have been checked out until you are suddenly aware again. I spent five days last week at a healing workshop and can now see how asleep that I have been.  It’s not a matter of wanting to be checked out. It’s simply a state of being.

Twenty-five years ago, I attended my first Vipassana meditation retreat.  These are meditation intensives in which there is no talking, no eye contact and limited amounts of food.  After four days of sitting for nine hours of meditation, I felt a little crazy and had a hard time telling the difference between being asleep in the dream state and being awake in a meditative one. But after ten days, I reached a state of pure love that I simply didn’t realize existed.  I was really in love with everyone and everything that I saw.

Of course, I wanted to hold on to that feeling, but unfortunately attachment throws you right out of the love.  I never quite repeated that experience in all the subsequent years of retreats and meditation practice.  It was always very good stuff and I still practiced, but it was never that incredible state of energetic, spiritual being that I felt after the first retreat.

Until now! 

I attended the Martin Brofman healing workshop in Dallas because I felt it would sharpen my coaching.  Often, I see where the energy is stuck on a person, but have no idea what that indicates or how to help them move through it or how to clear the tension. Now I feel almost guilty in writing it off as a business expense, because what I got out of the experience was a vibration throughout my body that feels…out of this world.

My physical complaints are gone, but possibly more important is the fact that my spirit feels cleansed – and once again in love with everything and everyone around me. Of course, magically, things are working all around me with great ease and joy.  Life is simply an amazing journey.