Coming back to writing after a long hiatus. Some of you know me well by now and to the readers joining in for the first time – I hope you will stick around and get to know me.
So, where was I all this time?
Well, life events occurred and I needed time to get into a cocoon, figure out the situation, grieve for my loss, and emerge - a bit jaded but stable again.
Sometimes, we are taught hard lessons in life. Everything just stops. And yet, life goes on... schools, offices, family, health everything needs your attention - you switch to autopilot and take care of everyone and everything - until - you can get away for a bit - to be by yourself, to allow yourself to feel.
I feel fortunate to be able to switch this way, to compartmentalize everything, it helps me process day-to-day objectively. Take myself out of the equation and approach whatever happened from all sides and if at the end of it, I find that I was wrong, then apologize, try to fix issues (given a chance) and move on. And there is no timeline for this.
Personally, I was a completely different person for quite a while! I am surprised at how much I was affected and how much I have changed in this time. A veil lifted and here we are now, a little less trusting, a bit more careful but present. Here.
Sometimes, we don’t get a chance to address what happened - and we have to deal with a feeling of emptiness and profound loss. It doesn’t have to be a death though, it could just as easily be a relationship, work partnership, a friendship or just about anything that breaks and takes you with it!
I guess, the lesson from this is - don’t rush to connect emotionally in new friendships and if it’s a twenty-year friendship, like mine was, learn to distance yourself to minimize damage to your own self.
Maybe, we all need an emotional firewall to keep negativity out and to keep our emotions in check and in good health.
Happy to be back!
Om
Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
