Learn to love your inner world
I was standing up in front of 30 strangers at a business event last week, filling in on behalf of a friend to read out some progress notes for him while he was away.
I did my job easily, and then I tried to sit down, but they asked me to stand up again and tell them what I do in a sentence.
“Oh...” I muttered.
I wasn’t planning on that.
I hadn’t prepared.
I hadn’t thought about it.
Brevity is not my strong point.
Simplicity is not my strong point.
So I paused.
And they waited.
They stared at me.
The time was ticking and we were supposed to move on to the next agenda item.
I stood there and looked out and the river view from the East Fremantle Yacht Club where we were sitting to centre myself away from their gaze.
And then it came to me and I spoke clearly and concisely.
“I’m Gabriella. I’m a counsellor in private practice in Fremantle. I help people learn to love their Inner World.”
And there it was.
They clapped.
As I said it, I noticed my right hand waved up and down the font of my body from my belly to my heart, as if to show them where the inner world was.
The space in which I work.
I didn’t wave past the mind.
I waved in front of the belly and the heart.
Here, the Inner World truly is.
But we must bypass the mind,
breathe deeply through the nose,
mouth,
down the throat,
and past the chest,
to find our sacred space.
Most people don’t know this place.
Most people don’t want to.
Most people don’t know how to get there.
Most people don’t know how to stay here.
And most people don’t know why you’d want to be here.
But here, is home.
Here is the house of our gut and our heart.
Here is our direction,
our emotions,
our ability to love,
our sense of truth and lies.
Here is home.
Here is where we can come home to and rest.
Here is our safe place,
our inner sanctum,
our refuge.
Only if you want to go there.
Only If you want to know there.
Only If you want to stay there.
So close your eyes-I have so much more to show you.
~ Gabriella
