WELLNESS
that I could learn from my little friend here. He did not care that I was watching. My watching didn’t make him suddenly try to be more precise and strive for perfection to get my approval. He wasn’t attached to how the web looked, as long as it did the job. He also wasn’t attached to the web being there permanently. I realized this when the next morning, I went outside to have my breakfast and accidentally collapsed the web. I felt bad and guilty for not being more thoughtful, but that night, a new web had been built, bigger, stronger and in a slightly different location. He learned the lesson and simply started again. Watching the spider, I had to look at myself. I too am a part of Nature. Do I have the courage to simply be, and do what naturally arises to sustain life and keep going no matter what life throws at me? Am I able to listen to my inner voice that will direct me in ways that is life affirming rather than going against it by resisting, trying to control or wanting, wanting, wanting life to be different? When I watched this spider I realized something about Nature that is so simple and so beautifully in flow. There is no pushing or pulling, simply being. It is something I see in my practice as well. When the mind stops controlling and the person on the table surrenders to the flow of Nature (the healing energy that is inherent in our own biology and all around us), the tissue relaxes and softens, and long held patterns in the body start to shift. When I treat people in my craniosacral therapy practice, I treat those areas in the body that are not relaxed, those place that feel tight, hard and constricted and where the body’s own healing energy seems to be moving in a disorganized pattern. Allowing the body’s own wisdom to re-organize and re-align these patterns and pockets, allows Nature to simply do its job and allows healing energy to flow freely and abundantly. It is usually our own fears, attachments and need for protection and preservation that prevents healing from happening. But in fact there is nothing to be afraid of, as energy cannot be created nor destroyed. In fear we resist our body’s own healing energy and hamper it from doing its job. In the same way as it to ??F?R?GF?R7?FW"6?W&vR?f?7W2?BFWFW&??F???F?'V??B??27G'V7GW&RF?Bv?V?B&?f?FR???v?F???2f??B6?W&6R?BF?W&Vf?&RV?F??FV???2?fR?vRF???fRF??fR6?W&vR?f?7W2?BFWFW&??F???F?&R?V?F???Bg&VR?b???F?B???6??&??F???v?F??'6??WFRG'W7B??F?RV?'&?F?VB?vW"?B??FV??vV?6R?b?GW&R?6?7&VFR?&6?W2???W"?fW2?7V??F??&F???27&???67&?&7F?F???W"?7V??F?W2vV?V??R???7F?2&?6?F??W"&7F?6R?V?FW'7F?F??rF?B??7V7G2?b??^( ?2?fR??V?F????6?6??V??F?????B7?&?GV?6???&?&F?fV??B6???V7F?fV?FWFW&??Rv?B6??w2W??F?R&?G??7V??F?2&V6V?fVB?W"G&????rF?&?Vv?F?RW?VFvW"??7F?GWFR?B?VW26??F??V??r?W"VGV6F???F?'&?FV??W"66?R?b?V??rFV6???VW22vV??2F?FVWV??W"V?FW'7F?F??r?bF?R6???W??GW&R?bF?R?V??&?G????B?B7?&?B?f?"??&R??f?&?F?????7V??F??V6Rf?6?Bwwr?7V??F??&F???6????