Live Your Calling

Sometimes we know our Life Purpose at an early age.  Sometimes it doesn’t come until years later.

Studying Kinesiology in 1980 to become a doctor, English was my worst subject.  My English teacher, Mrs. Thorpe, tasked us to write our obituary. Now, ever since I was little a conscious fear of death haunted me, so this wasn’t helping (later I came to understand that the culprit for these thoughts was likely the Vagus Nerve in overdrive in my body).  Though my death fear had me passing at 50, I deemed myself a successful rockstar, a singer-guitarist.  Yet my real purpose was in my songs. They “protested the slow dehumanization of the American society.”  It was a super goofy paper, though I got a B. My lyrics went on to express “disapproval of the computerization of the American household.” I had never been on a computer, but being called to write this, the story went on to encourage embracing your humanity.

Since I would pass out giving blood at the American Red Cross, I found less invasive ways of working with health. Eventually my work became that of regaining one’s inner wholeness through embodied movement, touch, and dialogue combined.

After completing Upledger Craniosacral Therapy (CST) training in spring of 2007, a new client, George, came to see me for a CST session. Like notes on a scale, in the beginning you learn a basic 10-step protocol to work with the central nervous system (CNS) until you learn how to play more complex songs. Being green, I checked the steps off, much like a pilot clears the craft for flight. Check 1, craniosacral rhythm. Check 2, transverse fascial planes. Check 3, CNS and bones. Check 4, go where you are called.

My hands were called to his chest and thoracic inlet. Gently treating there, I began sweating bullets as waves of heat rolled through my upper chest and head, leaving me somewhat breathless. As the flush rocked my body, I dropped my knees to the ground, maintaining the contact with my hands. “Maybe it’s the summer heat? Because I am new at this? Or, I’m just tired?” It was less than a minute. I recovered quickly, the session completed well, and the rest of Saturday afternoon was on its way.

Two days later, George called to tell me that I saved his life. A few hours after the treatment he went home, and outside of his house, fell to the ground with severe pain in his chest. He was alone. The only phone was inside his house. He was clear that it was the session that had left him feeling lighter and had given him the inner strength to be present in body and mind to find his way to help.

Six years later, out of the blue, George emailed me:
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“Gloria peace be within you as well outside of you. This is George. You did CST energy work on me years ago. I’m the one that had the heart attack and you worked on me a few hours before it happened. I know you had a role in saving me and I want to thank you again for being in the right place at the right time.

I’m in Afghanistan right now playing my role, living my purpose, praying and reminding people of many origins – Afghans, people from Nepal, and India – that peace resides within one’s Self. I have been practicing a meditation I was shown 40 years ago, by a young boy from India. He was 14. I was 22.

I am with him today. His name is Maharaji or Prem Rawat. I wish you could check him out and what he can show people. We all are discovering new purpose. This just deepens one’s thirst to discover one’s source. His website is TPRF.org.

This is the only thing I could ever share that would equal that which you have given me, so please let’s keep in touch.

Peace to you and yours,
George”

The calling of our life’s path is often present with us in ways we least expect. If we follow our heart, and yet respect our fears, sometimes, when we least expect it, magic happens.

I invite you to view Prem Rawat’s purpose at TPRF.org and check out “Humanitarian Aid for People Suffering from War in Ukraine”.

If you need a lift today, check out this 17-year old who is clear on his purpose, singer-guitarist Tristen Gressett (American Idol, 2022). When asked his purpose by the judges he replied, “I want to change the world of music. I want to bring back something that never should have left. Soul.”

Listen (maybe with your headphones on, like me, to rock the house down) as he blows away Katy Perry with this crazy good Joe Cocker rendition of “With A Little Help From My Friends”.

Maybe I still wish I was like him. Or, who knows, maybe in my own way, I Am.

The World Needs You too.  What are you waiting for?  It’s time to Create a More Generous World. 

Healing and Trauma Practitioners:
IATM is steeped in science and in rhythmic functions of the body to master our lives and to be in co-mastery with others. Somatic dialogue, movement, touch – as well as narrative and nutrition – are the therapeutic tools of the process. Rhythms in the Craniosacral, Visceral, Fascial,  Polyvagal and 5 Element systems are the foundation. These combined self-defining, self-organizing principles illuminate the higher intelligence within.