Siri and My Heart

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Three years ago today, my dear mentor, Emilie Conrad, passed away from her body. This morning, after downloading new software to my iPhone, giving it new life, it asked me to talk to Siri*, to teach her my voice. After asking her the weather, I decided to plunge in further. “Siri,” I said, “What is the meaning of life?” “I can’t answer that now,” she replied. “but give me some time to write a very long play in which nothing happens.” I laughed and thought, some young Apple guy put that in.

But can it be true? Is life a long play in which nothing happens?

So much seems to be happening!

Emilie believed death was an important moment, making possible new perspectives and potential. She would not authorize someone as a teacher until she saw that they had died enough times!

When we can die to each moment in life, we can embrace the next moment more freely. We become more fluid, more creative, more available and flexible. This is, in a way, the essence of Emilie’s teachings of Continuum.

How we embrace and then let go of each moment has been the enquiry and practice of sages and monks throughout the ages. For me, a major aspect of being with each moment and letting go is opening the heart with awareness.

 

Last week, while teaching a post-graduate seminar in Craniosacral Biodynamics, I lay awake at 2 a.m., with this line running through my head, waiting for this moment when it could be written: When my heart opens, I sense its tenderness. More than that, it is as if the pain of all beings caresses my heart. Unprotected, I can feel all that I may have needed to not feel when younger. Am I capable of meeting and holding all that pain now?

Day after day, I read about atrocities committed in the name of God or politics. This didn’t end with the war to end all wars. Nor did it end when the Allies won World War II.

And, even without atrocities, people suffer. Life includes suffering. How do we be with that?

How much can my heart tolerate? When does pain become a caress?

Siri, I think you are wrong. So much happens in life…

 

*Siri is a voice-operated application, which answers questions, usually by looking them up on the internet

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Cherionna

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Cherionna Menzam-Sills is a therapist, author, teacher of Craniosacral Biodynamics, mindful movement called Continuum, and Prenatal and Birth Psychology. As well as having a private practice, she is a senior tutor at Karuna Institute, teaches around the world with her husband and Biodynamics pioneer, Franklyn Sills, and enjoys supporting practitioners through mentoring and supervision in person and online.

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  1. Thank you for this post. It is important for all therapist biodynamic craniosacral and help answer for main question what changed in my life after my study these therapies.

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