The Journey Of Awakening
February 9, 2025
Pondering Trust:
Trust: A Platform to See What is Not There
Do you see the air you breathe? I don’t, but that doesn’t keep me from breathing. I can even regulate my anxiety by slowing and focusing on my breathing. Doesn’t that seem silly to practice reducing my anxiety by something I can’t even see?
Do you see the nutrients in the food you eat? I don’t, but I still eat eggs for protein and spinach for Vitamin C, Iron, and Magnesium. I trust that they will help me be healthy.
Well then, there is my Personal Tiger. I trust that she is doing just that when I kiss my necklace and release my Tiger into my body to eat my mutant cells every day. That has worked for twenty-five years! That is real evidence of seeing what is not there.
We do so many things out of trust, so why do you need proof? Just wondering.
Lessons from the Miller’s Daughter
This past month, I have revisited one of my favorite Grimm fairy tales. I am very excited because I discovered the fairy tale, new again as if it were my very first time reading it. I found myself focusing on the power structure of patriarchy.
This tale is about a miller who encounters hard times, and his mill stops producing. One of the first lessons is about his dependency on comfort zones. He had become dependent on the mill-grinding the grain into flour and he lost touch of the natural world as the mill did the work for him. But the mill needs water to run and when there is a drought there is no water nor grain.
This sent the Miller into a depression. There are many types of depression and the Miller exhibited helpless depression. Woe is me. Life has become so hard and so cold. His inner state of being just wanted to be rescued. That made him vulnerable to scams and magical thinking.
One day when he was out in the forest bemoaning, a strange character approached him and said, “Miller, I know you have come upon hard times. I have seen how much you are suffering. I have a deal for you. If you will give me what is behind the mill right now and I will make you wealthy.”
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