"Cleaning" -- with a little help from a friend
A friend and colleague, Lucinda Sykes MD in Toronto , sent me a beautiful story the other day about a diver's encounter with a manta ray off the coast of Maui . In it, the author (Jennifer Anderson) is able to free the ray of fishing hooks and line wrapped around and embedded in its body . . . not unlike we humans can be entangled and dragging painful things along in our lives. Dr. Sykes is a Jungian therapist and meditation teacher whose Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction classes train people to be present to their moment-to-moment lives. Through this they can free themselves of chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, stress, and many other conditions. It's no accident Dr. Sykes would notice such a story in the world and share it with me. It originally comes from the book: Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul . I offer it to you in the ho'oponopono spirit of "cleaning" and being free. This Magic Moment by Jennifer Anderson It was like many Maui mornings, the sun...