Being born to a mother seized with an abject hatred of me upon my emergence - a mother who could barely keep from strangling me in the overwhelming frustration of her own ancient pains - was no picnic, to say the least.
Couple that with also being born with hip dysplasia - "shallow hip sockets" in my case - prompting the doctor to recommend me wearing six diapers at a time off and on for six months to 'shove' my legs into their sockets. (Imagine how it must have felt to my mother, who couldn't help but hate me for some unknown reason (a feeling she did not feel for my brothers) having to change not one diaper at a time but six! Good Heavens! It's amazing she didn't strangle me!)
As for my legs, the remedy worked fine, with one of my legs that is. (The leg on the Yang/Masculine side of the body, aka 'right' side.)
My other leg (my Yin/Feminine side aka "left" as in 'left over', or 'left behind'...(in Italian it's called 'sinistro' which means 'sinister...go figure)...Oh! and 'right' comes from the word 'rex' as in king - there are many language spells needing to be reauthored, to be sure, but that's another topic) - so, my other leg did not go into the socket but rather curled in towards my right leg and curled under (to where I was walking on the side of my foot instead of the bottom of my foot). This curling up and in seems to have been an attempt to protect myself from the sea of hatred ebbing and flowing towards me daily in my 'home' (which, on average, changed every one and a half years until I was 47 - very stabilizing...not).
Thus, (for more reasons than just these), for many decades, anxiety, self-hatred and abuse were fixtures in my life, and it took painfully intense experiences (opportunities) after painfully intense experiences (opportunities) for lesson after lesson to be learned...and I'm still learning, although I've picked up many tried and true Golden Keys of wisdom along the way.
These Golden Keys have added up so that, when, at the end of 2021 I turned 58 I'm feeling better than ever. There are many dreams I still pray for, and the world still needs massive healing for humanity to truly be free - free from taxation, physical and mental abuse, near constant poisoning and having to pay for land that is God given for us to grow nurturing food forests upon in order to live lives of freedom, abundance and creativity which is humanities birthright - aside from that and other challenges I face I feel a lot better in general from having found these Golden Keys that clearly have produced beneficial results every time I've remembered to use them.
One Golden Key I'd like to share with you today is a discovery I made in order to keep my neck and back from regularly going out of alignment, (due to one of my legs being "longer" (meaning not fully in the hip socket) and curled and twisted) which, when my neck or back have gone out of alignment has been totally incapacitating.
The epiphany I had that lead to my discovering techniques through the practice with something I call my PowerDowel - a simple broomstick with the brushes unscrewed (in the old days I had to clean my broom and use it with the brushes attached because they didn't unscrew) which gave me the ability to maintain my spinal alignment, perform minor spinal adjustments and give myself an all around blissful body massage (especially needed due to long hours sitting at the computer!). These benefits have been truly miraculous for my body and life, and are easily accessible to anyone anywhere who has a broomstick or another type of medium to long dowel.
I invite you to learn more about the incredible benefits of the PowerDowel by checking out my post:
@sima369/celebrating-58-and-feeling-great
Another most vital Golden Key, which I'm sure you know, is Gratitude. When I've been falling in deep panic with terror that there's no ground beneath me, nothing to catch me, I've learned to go into gratitude, even if only for my breath, my body, my bare feet on the glorious ground under the majestic sky (from which I continually pray for rain, and thus, I've learned the art of "Weather Craft" and "Alchemical Prayer", more topics I wish to share the Golden Keys of one day) and Gratitude has always caught me. Gratitude, to me, is the acknowledgment of, and giving of thanks to Mother/Father God, and all the Loving Spirits of the Universe, and the gifts they've given me; acknowledgment of the daily success of survival in a world that has been dominated with an unspeakable heartlessness. A heartlessness that I believe is seeing its final days as the ions of hell on earth are ushered out through each of us brave enough to survive another day facing the madness within so that we may Herald in the Self-Love that Transforms the Universe into the Dreams we Seek through each of our Heroic Beating Hearts.💖
God Bless,🌺
and Thank You,
Sima Simone