Last night in Continuum class, Mary Abrams, who had recently been present at a birth, and also at the side of someone dying, talked about the process of dying and being born as similar. This I have heard often. When I asked her about how she participated in this, she said by being silently present, and by being a support through touch and breath and that by being there, holding the space gives validation to their felt sense of their own processes. I think that this last is the most important because so much in our culture does not allow us our own experience, on the contrary it urges us to disassociate from our bodies.
Obviously, neither process is easy, but awesome in the true sense of the word, as what greater moments could there be than our entry and departure into this world? And we all have our unique ways of doing it.
Posted by Barbara at January 30, 2004 03:46 PM | TrackBack