This is my dog Snowy…used to be my Mom’s and he is quite a yapper. But not today.
This morning I came downstairs to find him under the weather. Somehow his back leg is causing some pain and he is just not interested in walking, yapping or eating.
The lesson he reminded me of today is this: knowing when to be still and focus on healing is essential. Dogs and animals in general really do get this.
As I stroked him this morning, amazed at his calm demeanor, it hit me…”why don’t people know how to be more like dogs?” It seems like God has infused nature and animals with this ability to just know when to be still, sit, hibernate, play dead and when to be fully active, blossom and rise. Snowy just knew he had to be still today.
If we could just be still and focus all our energy on wellness, on healing, we would heal so much faster and deeper. It makes perfect sense doesn’t it? We only have but so much energy and just like with any crisis where “all hands on deck” is required, sometimes everybody (or all energy) needs to be assigned to just that one major job. If not, you run the risk of further and more damaging injury (ask any athlete!)
This is true not just for physical ailments. With psychic and emotional and spiritual wounds, stilling ourselves so we can divert all energy towards being well is the answer we tend to avoid. We seem to have a knack for avoiding the obvious and simpler solutions. Then life gets so much more complicated, relationships suffer and wholeness is deferred.
So follow Snowy’s lead…if there is anything needing some healing in your body, mind or spirit, be still and focus all energies on its healing. Just be still. And watch the miracles flow. 🙂
Wishing you an abundance of wisdom, stillness and health,
