Dear ,
Usually it is easy to find a topic for my newsletters, but this month somehow I struggled. It felt that there is so much that needs to be said – and yet knowing that there have never been times in my life when it was so difficult to speak without being misunderstood.
I don’t know how this is for you, but I realize that often I am holding back and I catch myself to be careful with whom I share what I really think. And of course this makes it more difficult than ever to really connect.
Connection has suffered a lot in the past 1 ½ years. It had been something that we had taken for granted. We had been able to connect with whom we wanted any time we wanted. And we hadn’t realized how precious this was.
And then came a time when we were even told that connection is dangerous. Many of us were careful, first worrying about their health, then worrying about being punished and finally worrying about being judged and excluded.
Many of us have suffered in the one or other way – because connection has suffered. Connection is one of the most essential human needs – we are beings that evolve, grow and transform through connection.
Maybe it is good to pause for a moment and think of how we lived connection in these past months – not so much the physical connection, but especially the emotional and mental connection.
Maybe there are people you stopped connecting with, you stopped talking with. Maybe your way of communication changed, influenced through anger, judgement, frustration, sadness, confusion or other.
Maybe we can ask ourselves how this happened and why this happened – and is still happening? And maybe – in the one or other moment – we can sense the gift of this whole situation.
When connection stops, the need to connect does not simply disappear. It becomes stronger and it came to my mind that maybe this is the gift – that we become aware of our longing to connect with others.
In the last session of the “journey through the year” we realized that there is – in nearly everyone – a deep longing for connection and community. For being together, sharing common interests and visions, singing, dancing, being creative.
There is a strong longing for community – for places where everyone is allowed to feel safe, where nature, simplicity, honesty and the common good call the tune.
So maybe these times are the catalyst for creating something new that meets our need for connection and authentic humanness – not in a distant future, but now.
Sending you my best wishes for a connected month of September in the spirit of love and reconciliation
Ursula |
