Returning to our core of existence, from time to time, is incredibly important in this day and age. It is very easy to get lost in our day to day routines, with little regard to all the elements of life that are truly important to us. For many of us, we step aside from our early lives, as we head into the responsibilities of adulthood. For some, myself included, this ends up being a continued struggle due to that inner unwillingness to fully let go of our childhood, our early and formative years. Why is that?
I have a number of friends and acquaintances who have been able to bring their early lives into their adult years in a very graceful manner. For me, what that might look like would be continued avidly hiking, traveling the Woods and Mountains, the small town existence, bringing these things on into my adult life with the same enthusiasm of my younger days. Indeed, for many years of my younger adulthood, that was the case.
This core of existence, that which we truly love in this life, can and often is set aside, as the demands and responsibilities of our adult life allow us less and less time and energy to live in this core.
But, that’s just wrong. It may become more of a challenge, in our domestic and work relationships, to find the time and energy to live in this core. Yet, it doesn’t discontinue to draw on our energy and spirit. In fact, what we fail to recognize is that not living from our true selves actually weighs on us, drawing energy from us, no matter whether we engage in it, or not.
We arrive in this life, in the family and location of our birth, of our own choice. We select our parents, and therefore initially where we will live. This selection is made in order that we begin our lives in the setting that we need and/or want to, in order to meet our purpose in this life. If we ignore our beginnings, abandon them, or simply ignore them, there will always be a part of us that is drawn back to our beginnings and a background energy that is always pulling on us (sort of like a program running in the background on our computer, drawing on memory and therefore somewhat compromising the performance of our computer).
Personally, this core of existence consists of my Love for being in the Woods, the Mountains, and all of Nature. For me, this core of existence also consists of a genuine desire to be of assistance to other people in doing everything from physically helping build something on their property, to helping them move, to counseling, healing, and just being in support. There is so much more I could be doing to enhance my own life and the lives of others.
So, what I am getting to is the realization that what was so important in our early life, what really made us happy and content, what was easy for us to connect to, is just as important in our later lives and continues to draw us back to connect with that energy. We must recognize this draw, this energy, this love. We’re told not to live in the past. And, that is correct. But, we can connect up with that which we love about our past, embrace it in our hearts, and allow it to live in us in the now. It’s there anyway. We might as well engage in it and let it enhance our lives, rather than just being an energy drain.
Peter J Quandt