Movement can occur when immobilization begins to resolve

I have been away for a long time. Away from my writing. The blink of an eye and children are grown with children of their own and wrinkles and lines betray the passing of time that is not fully registered by the brain. I'm stunned that my last entry was over three months ago. Sometimes writing calls to me and in my recurring place of immobilization I can't find the voice to respond.

Christopher and Michela, of my last entry, are doing well. Examples of the miracles of our modern technology combined with their Spirit's ability to mount the obstacles that can befall one's path beginning with birth. It also didn't hurt to have a mother and grandmother who persevered with their continuous welcome and care over many, many weeks in a preemie ICU.

I wanted to speak to immobilization today. It is something that so many of us can relate to and tend to experience with frustration and distress. It is something that can be stored or set in our physiology due to a multitude of events, beginning with in utero or birth experiences or from any number of events that may have occurred in the years since. I believe that understanding this can be a tremendous relief. We humans typically tend to find fault with ourselves when something is a struggle for us. To know that feeling stuck, or immobilized, or like we are spinning our wheels and going nowhere is a state of one's physiology and not an example of one's flawed character or motivation can be both relief and the beginning of being able to address the real culprit(s).

The primitive part of our brain and our nervous system sometimes remember things that the more evolved part of our brain dismisses or categorizes as routine or unremarkable. And sometimes we do recognize something as having had a big impact on us but don't really understand that our physiology is storing what has not yet resolved from the event.