Climb a Mountain, Take a Nap

Climb a mountain.

Take a nap.

Climb on.

Sleep deeply.

Heal continuously.

I remember learning the meaning of this during a wilderness rites of passage the year I graduated from college in 2000.

I had gone to Death Valley to fast for four days and four nights. I found a beautiful spot down a canyon where the sun would wrap itself around the rocks at sunset - feeling the Earth was giving me a hug goodnight as I slept alone in the wilderness with just a tarp and some jugs of water.

Each day, I lie on the dry soil, allowing the heaviness of my body to release toxins from past emotions and surrender the parts of myself that no longer serve me. I allowed myself to rest, entering a deep state of healing.

Each day, I would rise and hike as far as I could, carrying water through the canyon.

I would explore every little aspect I could, feeling the grains of sand, the roughness of rocks, and the softness of air and sun, all touching my whole being through my senses.

The breath of the Earth moved through me.

As I felt myself become this breath, I looked down the canyon. The sun that wrapped itself around the rocks reached through the crevices and expanded into wings. Again, the sun held me.

Humbled, I bow to the Earth and in her grains of sand is a clear quartz crystal.

Tears flow, not in sadness, not in joy,

In serenity -

In gratitude for this gift of inner peace.

I return to my fasting container and lie back into the soil.

This time, the heaviness of my body is a little lighter.

The breath of the Earth, the wings of the sun and the clearness of the crystal continue to move through me.

The journey of Innate Healing began long before this experience.

This was a moment of remembrance.

The journey continues in the everyday reciprocity of the soul-to-soul connection with the Earth.

The moment of remembrance is always in you.

You can climb a mountain, take a nap, climb on and find deeper rest, learning the integration of the healing process along each step.

The journey of the soul’s emergence is an innate wisdom already connected to our inner healer.

Allow the remembrance in every moment.

In Loving Service,

Devon 💗☯️🌎

Devon offers Spinal Flow, Emergence, and Lomi Lomi sessions in Hilo for those who feel called to this kind of work.