This is post is a copy of what I wrote in my journal after a trip into the mountains in Kananaskis Country several years ago.
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As we drove home from the mountains Thursday, we saw a wide variety of animals and birds. I was surprised to see a big badger run away from us, and across the road and into the grass.
Badgers are typically dawn and dusk beings as they are very much a loner type animal. This badger, however, was on a mission, and ran across a busy two lane highway. The irony of me writing this story is that one of the characteristics of badger in all the legends is that Badger is the Keeper of Stories. Before the written word was so prominent, all traditions handed down their history by story telling. In each family was one member who could recite the family lineage right back to the oldest memories. We lost our tradition of story telling in the 1700’s with the growth of the Industrial Revolution and its need for written instructions to keep the spread of machines growing.
Back to Badger! Badger is an underground dweller. It reminds us to stay grounded. She also reminds us to dig deeper into the issues that are occurring in our lives because the surface problem is not at the root – the root is generally always hidden beneath the layers – of dirt, or of stories, or of self deception.
Badger likes to be by herself because she is very strong and self confident. Her questions are:
May Badger come to you in your dreams and give you a way to get to your roots!
Many blessings,
Judy
Catharsis is about being able to release pain – emotional pain – by watching someone else’s pain, and being able to recognize the pain and feel it in you, and then release it in yourself. Many of us do this by crying at movies or even at commercials on TV. The process, for some people, is quite embarrassing, that is, to be crying at a movie.
However, Great Spirit and our Angels and Guides reassure us that this is a healing mechanism that humans have so that we do not overload on emotions that we store inside our bodies. From the time that we are born, it is in our nature to laugh, cry, be sad, celebrate, and all the other emotions that exist. If we cannot feel great sadness, then there is a good chance that we will not be able to feel great happiness.
Feeling emotional release based on someone else’s experience, real or performed in a movie, is a great confirmation that we are all connected; that there is Oneness. What I mean is that if we were all separate, we would not feel that tug of pain in a nerve around our heart, or, we would not feel the fear in our solar plexus when we watch that scary movie. Emotion is an energy that radiates outward until it is absorbed by “something”. Often that something is another being.
The nick name for emotional movies is “tear jerker”. Literally, the nick name describes the process of the movie pulling the tears that have been locked away, out into the open. Some spiritual teachers believe that a good tear jerker is as good as a meditation in helping a person release pent up emotion. In either case, during the movie or during meditation, the person is so absorbed that they are completely in the present moment, and, in the present moment, there is no pain, so the body releases it as tears.
What a beautiful process! Catharsis!
Blessings,
Judy
