I know that I know And that I don’t know But I forget
Emergent Understanding
I know that I know
And that I dont know
But I forget
I see that I am blind
and I see the blinding light
in everything
but I forget
I see what I know
I think
I know what I see
But sometimes
I forget
And this is The Way
It should be
At the end of every forget
I remember.
Lonny Brown
The game isn’t to end up a good remember-er.
The game is to end up free
Free from what ails us.
Free from what contains or constrains us.
We work with each other to understand what we see and where, how our view changes depending on what we are holding on to.
A standard database this is not.
We need our natural, full body intelligence to understand, to catch the tail end of the remember string.
Not to solve but to explore what is taking place at any given moment in our experience. To see what is really going on.
For me, reiki creates a profound place for me to examine. Hands-on reiki can come as such a relief, be so transformative in part because it is a rare moment where I can be present in my body, present with my thought and physically feel them soften, has hands move across my form.
I don’t get the chance to receive hands-on reiki often, instead I send myself alot of “distance” reiki.
First, meditating and grounding myself, I bring into my awareness what’s going on in me. And I send those shapes within me loving light, peace, pink-healing-love-mist, whatever in that moment feels necessary, trusting this space I’ve created to carry what I need to me.
It can feel pretty far out, and even now depending on how distracted or agitated I feel I can question if it’s going to work. It can be really easy to start focusing on what I think I know and letting that define me
I know that I know
And that I dont know
But I forget
And then I wake up ( normally I send the treatment to myself for a few hours after bedtime) feeling different. Feeling as if movement has occurred.
I’m ornery so I’ve tested it as best I can, concocting elaborate layered treatments for myself. Time and time again, in ways that escape my scheming, the reiki treatment I’ve sent myself works. “I know that I don’t know” how it works, but I’m so appreciative that it does, and if I can keep freeing myself from the limits I set for my own experience, there’s not much else to do.
If you want to try reiki in person or remotely or explore some of the other modalities I work with LMK.
If you’ve been considering Bodywork, Reiki, or Psychedelic Integration, here is a loving nudge.
If now feels like the right time to begin something, it is.
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