I have been thinking about the healing journey in general terms and comparing it with the spiritual path. The comparison does work.
I walked the famous pilgrimage way to Santiago de Compstela in 2005 as a spiritual journey as much as a physical one, and I found that I went through various stages that parallel the healing journey for womb twin survivors rather nicely.
I began with a huge sense of excitement and energy, that got used up in the first five days. I was left exhausted in a hotel room, with 350 miles to go, weeping that I would never make it and all my plans and hopes would come to nothing. I just rested and waited and slept.
Sure enough I had the energy to continue the next day. This taught me something about believing in my capacities. In other words that elusive Alpa energy was there inside me and all I had to do was to trust in that energy to take me forward.
You cannot force healing to happen, you can only wait and observe. The gradual rise of alpha energy inside me was so subtle I didnt notice it until about two months after I got home in September 2005. Then slowly steadily and effortlessly I started the womb twin project. The whole project has happened in the last three or four years, and all I had to do was to let go, stop trying and it has done itself. It has its own energy. I have to walk those daily steps but its always a delight and so incredibly rewarding to do that I greet every day with joy.
Not bad, that.
Want some? Just relax and let the healing come. It will, believe me.
When a twin dies before birth, the sole survivor needs help and understanding. Womb twin survivors are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy. This group, 1 in 10 of the population, includes survivors of a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion and a "vanishing twin" pregnancy. It is a story of a twin bond broken by death, leaving a lonely survivor.
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The relax & let it come idea makes a lot of sense but I don't like that idea when I've got to start paying creditors in the next few months and no idea of how I'm going to do it. Tho' I guess that wishing black was white doesn't actually make it any lighter......
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