”the knee bone’s connected to the…”
Remember that song from childhood? “Dem Bones” is a funny (and kinda’ strange, really) old song, inspired by a prophecy about dry bones being someday resurrected, reconnected, and filled with life again. And metaphorically, that’s pretty much the goal of holistic life coaching.
When properly awakened and nurtured, areas of life that have been stagnant, stuck, confused, out of integrity, damaged, or paralyzed by fear…our metaphorical dry bones…reveal something important: they contain the seeds of our future happiness and success. The DNA of our truth, and our calling. Our problems often lead us right to our solutions.
But also that old song points to something else about us humans: we are so interconnected. The knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone, like the song says, and struggles with success, or with relationships, or self-love, or spiritual healing, or you-name-it, are connected to all kinds of other parts of our lives. Sometimes it’s really surprising to see what’s contributing to or causing our stuck places. Life coaching can help connect the dots, and find a way through….and up.
(And this is just a cool picture of Route 66 in Oklahoma, a small glimpse of a long road, also called The Mother Road, part of the interconnectedness of our beautiful country.)
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.
~Václav Havel
“The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see that there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.”
Gil Scott-Heron, from The Revolution Will Not Be Televised