The sacred scream.
Other humans might flinch when we scream. But the land?. Well, it can hold it all.
For, wider nature is that free, nonjudgemental space where we can express ourselves without any editing, filtering, censoring.
To experience that, is very liberating and healing. For mind, body and soul.
For we learn we can trust.
When my gorgeous niece and nephew come to stay, they ask “can we go to our spot and scream”?
So we do. (This is them 6 years ago).
Conscious Practices
It takes me back to a Vipasssana silent retreat, like Day 7 with 3 more days to go.. when a woman quietly walked out of the meditation hall. You could hear her footsteps on the ground as she distanced herself. Then 5 minutes later, this almighty scream reverberated down the valley and into our bones. 5 minutes later she returned to her cushion as quietly as she left.
She did herself a favour. And all of us!
Mum would scream into a pillow. Years later, I found out that this is a fundamental practice of Osho’s. Or more recently fundamental to @mamagena and @thelaylamartin ‘swamping practice’.
Medicine Woman Munay, creator of Gateway To Your Essence and the Cellular Response 4®, teaches that the path of the visionary begins with release. Letting go of what no longer serves us.
In my #earthconversing world, the sacred scream is one such practice!
Thank the land and let me know how it goes if you try it!
Thank you to Hannah Popowski on Unsplash for photo.