Yesterday I had a session with my Enneagram therapist. I’m a 6 on the Enneagram, by the way, queen of the worst case scenarios. I asked my therapist if she had any wisdom to share regarding my recent biggest worry and concern. She told me my answers were innately within. Though it seems a 6 may often doubt their own wisdom, and seek the answers from others, they have that instinctive intelligence within. (Don’t we all?!) That’s when I asked — “you mean I already have the ruby slippers?”. “Yes, indeed,” she answered.
I found such comfort in her affirming my inner strengths. Suddenly, I needed no specific, tailor made answers after all.
I’ve also, not coincidentally, had a several week break from meditation. During this time worry and anxiety were amping up, but I told myself meditation didn’t really work anyway. Such the foolhardy tale! Yet today I just felt inspired to pick it up again, and wound up doing four Linda Hall meditations in a row on Insight Timer. Linda’s voice and meditations are like sinking deep into an island of warm snuggles, and they’re all freely offered on Insight Timer.
Afterwards, I realized sometimes the only answer is to simply “take my hand off the hot stove” (ala Abraham Hicks). If worry feeds anxiety, and I wind up in a cycle of it, then stop doing that! Meditation is what breaks the cycle.
Last night I also felt inspired to do a solar eclipse ceremony outside and burned several pieces of hand written notes detailing what I wanted to let go of (burn away) and/or transform. Who knows if it helped, but it sure didn’t hurt!
Today, I’m donning and rocking those red ruby slippers! What do you know?! They still fit! There really is no place like home — the heart home…
