“Remember your medicine.”
I felt this truth reverberating throughout my being this morning. I have been running too fast, and I have become agitated and disconnected. Disconnected from spirit, from nature, from myself, from my purpose.
It is so easy (and trickily alluring) to start running too fast – to keep up – to measure up – to do- to perform. Oh my, how I can get, caught up in it all, and forget the original purpose of my work.
The purpose is healing and connection. This is why I am here, and why I am called to teach and share art as a sacred and powerful healing practice.
Making art can lead us to reconnection with ourselves, the divine the universe and others if we let it speak to us and through us.
I’ve gotten so caught up in the seductive wave of performing. In preparing my offerings for public consumption, I have slowly and dangerously come close to becoming disconnected from that original and sacred purpose.
This morning in my angst and sadness around that feeling of disconnection, I put my phone and the temptation of mindlessly scrolling far away.
I read from Joy Harjo’s magical tapestry of words called Catching The Light, and then I pulled an oracle card from my newest (and now one of my favorite) decks, Earth Warriors by Alana Fairchild.
Then, as I was quietly sitting, enjoying the inspiration of those words and gentle directives, I felt these words filter into my consciousness: remember your medicine.
As their power sunk into my being, I could feel my nervous system calming, and my body relaxing, as the mental hustle of making art to sell, cleaning my studio for open studios, and overall doing came to a gentle pause.
Ahhhhhhh. There I am, there is my connection to myself, spirit, nature, life, and the greater good. I breathed it in and remembered again.
It is often so hard for me to keep the balance in the world of social media and the pressure of promoting my business, but keep it I must.
If I don’t, the truth and power of what I am called to teach and share cannot emerge in its full integrity and importance, and THAT is the medicine.
That is the medicine that has kept me alive and that is the medicine that I must share so that others too will know of its power.
I am grateful to be reminded, even though the reminders can come in painful ways….headaches, stress, agitation..you name it.
Today I am stepping forth into my day with this reminder as my guiding light: Remember your medicine. My friend, I invite you to do the same. Slow down, breathe and remember YOUR medicine!
