Day 14 of 40: Serve G-d continued

Service through living presently.

Continued from Day 13.

Theme for Day 14: Serve G-d continued

“Make up your mind to serve your G-d with your gifts and talents. Impact lives, be a catalyst of change and transformation and access each window of opportunity to serve.”

Family constellations

I shared yesterday that an opportunity presented for me to attend and experience the family constellations healing modality today. I was looking forward to it.

This therapy practice was developed by the German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger last century and works with what has been referred to as the morphogenic field or collective unconscious. For more background on the subject click here.

It’s one of those therapies that is best understood through experiencing the process. There were nine of us altogether and everyone had a chance to bring forward a challenge they wanted to work on. We were all there from 9:00 to around 15:00.

In a nutshell, if you’ve never experienced being part of a constellation process, someone will describe a particular challenge they wish to work on, and the facilitator will assist them in gaining clarity as to what is at the core of the challenge and who/what the key elements related to the challenge are. These could be family members, or even body parts, concepts or beliefs. The person then chooses from those present to represent the various elements. If this is sounding abstract, I completely understand! As I mentioned this is one best grasped through experiencing it personally.

I was most grateful for these gifts from my first family constellation experience:

• Showing up to both give and receive. Each person there today had the opportunity to work on a personal challenge, to receive. At the same time, each attendee was there in service of the others, willing to step forward into the field as a representative, or to simply be present to witness and hold a sacred space for another’s vulnerable sharing. There was a feeling of trust and safety created by the group assembled. It was wonderful to be in the energy of this way of being.

• Stepping fully into living presently. When someone was called to be a representative within the field, it required putting personal ego aside, quietening the mind, and honouring whatever was being felt and experienced physically and emotionally, in the moment, and giving voice to it, without judgments or evaluations. It was about fully stepping into engaging and surrendering to the moment. A personally powerful memory for me to draw on daily when I find myself getting caught up mentally wandering and worrying.

An early night

After some time connecting with my kids, savouring a delicious salad and smoothy, attending to a few household chores and a soak in a salt bath, I was so ready for bed that some things like prepping school lunch were pushed to needing to get done early tomorrow morning!

Thank you Day 14! Continued on Day 15.