On August 24th, 2014 the town of Napa, CA that I live in experienced a 6.0 earthquake at 3:20 AM Not the kind of wake up call I was asking for. The earthquake lasted 21 seconds and it was horrifying. To say the least I've been on edge these past few days. While my house is structurally sound albeit there was a lot of broken glass and turned over furniture, I can't say my brain was really working at 100%. Most of the week I have felt very fatigued, and focusing on anything was pretty much impossible. It's not easy to admit that you are being affected by a traumatic event, but when I heard there was a healing meditation being held by Joni Dittricht I knew this was something I needed to attend.
I don't know how exactly it happened but something changed at that meditation. When I came away I was feeling back to almost normal. No more spacey feelings or high anxiety. It was amazing.
One of the things Joni talked about was how transformation comes about in our lives. It's not by hoping it will happen, but is sparked by uncontrollable event in our life, usually traumatic. From the ruin we feel and experience we can rebuild into something else.
Think through your life and when it shifted course. What caused those shifts? Was there a death in the family, an accident, a natural disaster, losing a job, a divorce? And yet it's in these events we feel we have lost it all are when the amazing life transformation happens.
