Someone asked me the other day, ‘So what is love and light anyway?’ Making reference to the fact that the saying has become so over used it is almost becoming flippant. But the question stuck in my head, what is love and light? The answer, my answer, and yours could be completely different, came very quickly and easily.
Love for me is when you accept someone else or yourself exactly as they or you are. It is when we realise that we, or the other person, are doing the best we possibly can at this moment in time with the tools that we currently have.
And light, well that is the hardest of all. That is when you turn the torch back in on your own heart, with kindness, compassion and if at all possible a sense of humour to examine your own motives and truths. This is in essence what we are all here for, the journey into the light. The more you uncover and accept, the more open you become, the more compassionate you are with yourself, the more compassionate you will be with others. The closer you sit to your own truth, the brighter your light will be.
William Sutherland, the osteopath who discovered craniosacral therapy back in the late 1800’s when he was a young man, continued to research and expand his field until his death in his eighties. In the years leading up to his death, perhaps the last decade of his work, he made the claim that craniosacral therapists were working with liquid light.
When I work as a craniosacral therapist I think about this liquid light, both inside and outside the body. The light outside is what some might refer to as God, or universal energy. The light inside the body exists at the very centre of the craniosacral fluid, a thin delicate strand of light that is gently but very determinedly connecting that outside light of God to the inside light of you.
The job of a craniosacral therapist is to make sure this light flows. If the body is opened, relaxed and in its most natural state the light is given the best possibility of flowing. Once the light is flowing in the body, then, like the torch being shined in on your heart, you are being given the option of moving closer to your truth. Living in your truth. Living in the light.
I am convinced that love and light are our draw, what pulls us ever forward on the biggest discovery of all, who we are.
And you, what do you think love and light mean?