Ramadan Inspires A New Level Of Healing
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Summary: In Ramadan, I’m exploring forgiveness and using EFT Tapping for emotional shifts. Overcoming fear, swimming in the sea, and grounding on grass twice a week are bringing me healing. Rediscovering self-confidence through appearance and exploring new nutrition insights. Art and creativity beckon as part of my healing journey. Excited for what lies ahead!
So there are all kinds of things going through my mind, body and spirit right now…
It’s the Holy month of Ramadan where I live. One of the main themes of Ramadan is forgiveness. I used that theme as inspiration for my personal healing this month by focusing on my own personal forgiveness. Putting some of the baggage down so that I am carrying less weight on my back. More on that soon!
As part of the forgiveness work, I have been using EFT Tapping. It has been really useful to help me shift my emotions (and therefore my internal physical/emotional landscape) to something more joy-based and thus less fear-based. It has brought back into mind how energy healing is one of the main branches of healing that Dr Kelly Turner identified. I am mulling how much of this I feel called to put in my life and in what format. I definitely feel more called in that direction.
I have been having swimming lessons for a bit of time now (never too late to learn!!). I set myself a couple of goals for this. One was to beat my husband (an ex-competitive swimmer!!) in a race of my choosing. Yep, I gave that a go but didn’t succeed this time… By half a body length!! I went back and told my swimming teacher, who has now incorporated sprint training in my lessons, haha!! The other goal I had was to swim in the sea. I feel that the sea is the biggest source of nature where I now live and I really want to tap into that healing force. But I just don’t feel confident enough that my swimming is proficient enough to swim in a choppy, current-filled, phenomenal body of water. But, this week… I DID IT!! I’m so proud of myself on several levels… I have conquered fear in this area of my life. I have improved the fitness in my body enough to achieve this. I have given myself access to a new form of healing. It feels great! And that joy and confidence only adds to my healing.
Twice a week, when my daughter has after-school classes, I find myself sitting around for an hour waiting for her. Interestingly, this waiting takes place outside, on a patch of grass. I have seized this opportunity to use this grass twice a week to practise grounding. I take my shoes off, sit on the ground and place my hands and feet firmly on the soil. It feels healing. It gives me simultaneous access to two healing sources… The ground beneath my feet and the sun on my skin (in moderation). I am truly syncing with nature.
I have become more focussed on my appearance lately. I fell into a hole after having my daughter and stayed there for the next seven years! I didn’t bother with my clothes, make-up or any other self-investment, really. My self-confidence deflated and I just kinda gave up. But I’m now reclaiming that. It feels like hard work right now, even just taking a bit of time to coordinate clothing and put some make up on. But it also feels like an investment in who I’m becoming, in rediscovering this aspect of myself, something I used to do, but in a new way. I am reminded of the words of T. S. Eliot as this happens: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”. I am letting my dyed hair grow out (I can thank the first COVID-19 lockdown for the impetus for that!) and discovering that my natural hair actually has these beautiful red tones that sparkle in the sunshine. I haven’t yet found my personality in my appearance, the clothing that really resonates with my sense of style. Heck, I don’t even know what my sense of style is just yet. But I’m in the process of reclaiming it. I am reclaiming this part of who I am in the world.
I’ve been thinking more on the importance of the place where you live whilst you heal. This week, I read an article about a Type 1 diabetic who healed from T1D when her environment completely changed when she got sent to prison. It made me ponder about how you cannot heal in the environment that made you sick. But I’m starting to understand that this does not mean that you just have to change your postal address!! I changed my country but am finding I’m still replicating elements of the life I left behind. Instead, I need to ask… Which patterns, beliefs and ways of being do I now need to leave behind? Which ones are not serving my highest good?
I have been, along with nearly a million other people, doing Tony Robbins’ and Dean Graziosi’s ‘Own Your Future Challenge’. During one of the sessions, they reminded me about power postures. As I stood in a power pose for two minutes, I felt the increased relaxation and strength ooze through my body. I need to look into this more.
Diet, eurgh. Yeah, this is the thorn in my side right now. I’m doing a lot of thinking on this! The ‘Own Your Future Challenge’ has also highlighted to me how being up to 3am each night (the challenge is on the American timezone!!) dramatically increases my sugar cravings, and therefore consumption, the next day. Message received on that!! But, beyond that learning point, I’m also deeply reflecting on how to reach health and peace with my nutrition. No strict but short-lived weight loss programs. No feelings of restriction about what I can’t eat. Just delivering the best nutrition for my body and its healing journey. I haven’t got answers to this one yet.
The last thing that has been circling around my mind (again and again!) is the idea of diet being more than what you put in your mouth. There’s an anonymous quote that’s been circling around the web forever…
I intuitively feel that there are areas in my life where my ‘diet’ needs to be lifted up to something better.
That’s all for now!
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Natalie is a blogger with Type 1 Diabetes. Natalie's special gifts are questioning the status quo and being a rebel. She is using these gifts to question medical 'knowledge' and find a true cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
