So I asked a few people to tell me in what situation(s) they feel most themselves. All described activities (and it included their work), that they are good at and that they love to be engaged with. They described situations in which they felt in “their element”. For the one it is fly fishing...being in the stream, casting, experiencing nature around and only having eyes for where the fish might be. For another it was being able to be of help. Helping another person allowed him his strongest connection to himself. Another person described her joy in teaching. She had originally wanted to become an actress which for many reasons did not come about in her life. As a teacher now she has an audience and gets to perform. Yet another person said that she feels most herself when she is engaged in any fun and creative activity such as baking, gardening or painting.
All said that confidence and expertise played a big part in feeling oneself. As my friends were speaking and thinking about it, their excitement and enthusiasm sparkled!
I like to call this part of ourselves our ‘day self’.
No one I spoke to mentioned silence, not doing anything or simply breathing.
In these experiences we can find our ‘night self’, our less conscious and developed self.
Rudolf Steiner describes how the macrocosmic breathing process in the heavens is connected to the microcosmic breathing process in the human being. It is a celestial rhythm called moon node that expresses itself in 18.6 years and that can influence human biography greatly. We can all look back at our life and ask what was happening for me at 18 and a half years, or around 37 and some and then again around 56 and onwards. Steiner says that important things are happening for the human soul at these times. And that it is the nights at these points in time that are the most important nights in a person’s life. At these times a window to the spiritual world is opened that lets us look at the original and deepest life impulses that we incarnated for.
To find out what our deepest life impulses are, never mind base our life on it, we need to do inner work to have the awareness and opportunity to grow our self with our day and night elements.
Body work and skin treatments can be a bridge towards this work. A space is created that protects the receiver from outer demands and stimulation. The silence allows the client to hear him or herself think and feel. Breathing deepens as relaxation gradually sets in and new energy, new ideas, renewed strength for life can appear.
Taking time for oneself, shutting out and/or working with disturbances, silence, deep breathing, thinking and feeling are elements of inner work that ground us in who we really are and can be.
I hope that treatments with me are refreshing, renewing and help you be you.
~Claudia
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