The Pillars and the Lenses - The Pillars
Embodied Living is about Intimacy.
After I went through menopause it felt like something within me was missing. It took me a while to recognize what it was.
I missed my cycles. The waves that would run through my emotional being month by month. For so long they were something I had depended on. They anchored my emotional creature.
Not only had my anchor been lifted by my changing body, but also by the uprooting of my home and with that my sense of belonging.
The only way I knew how to regroup was by going inward and examine what was happening. I wanted to make peace with my experience.
Which meant I had to become intimate with the experience.
As I was once told, intimacy means in-to-me-see.
So, the first pillar was born: Intimacy with Self.
My dance with life happens in partnership. With my husband, my adult children, my friends, with the people I meet.
Further I got curious about the different aspects within me that make me a functional being. I started to examine FLOW and GO states.
FLOW, where I surrendered to the experience with all my emotions.
GO, where I analysed and made clear strategic decisions about what was to come next.
And what would 100% leaning into the partnership with my husband look like? That dance of give and take, of coming together and moving away from each other.
That informed the second pillar: Intimacy with the Other/s
As a Feng Shui consultant, the flow of space is essential to me.
To live a fully embodied life it felt important to me to ask the following questions:
Does the space around me influence my sense of belonging?
Can space influence my well-being?
Can space be brought into alignment to reflect my inner and outer world?
And being aligned in these aspects, what is my greater connection to the world.
I created the third pillar by engaging with the above questions: Intimacy with the Environment / the World around us
I hope you get curious and explore the different aspects of Intimacy in your unique way!
With love and pleasure,
Theres