Coming Home to Yourself
‘Coming Home’ to yourself during lock down – the Light in the Darkness By Claire Powell. Hippocrates , the Father of modern medicine, stated ‘ For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction , are most suitable’. How appropriate then, to find restriction as part of the therapeutic response to Covid 19. ‘Lock down’ for many , presents us with an ongoing opportunity to go within. Not only to be ‘at home’ in our physical environment, but to ‘come home’ to ourselves, be present within ourselves and our environment and to re assess what being present really is to and for us. We are still every bit as ‘present’ within our communities, homes and selves. ‘Visible’ and ‘present’ are not necessarily the same thing! In this time where we are perhaps asked to examine our routine ‘doing’ and explore our potential for ‘being’. We are given the chance to redefine ourselves, re-sculpt and re-hone, re tune if you will. This is a time we are able to go within, examine what security is to us, release that which is false security, temporary and dependent on external coordinates, and instead reach for the inner stability we all hold in...