A thousand Hands Come Together as One...

This week I have been feeling stressed & overworked.

My excuse is: I don't have time to do this work; plus run my business; plus preparing & creating a Forgiveness Seminar; plus being a coach; a Leader Training Leaders; plus creating an architectural presentation in Peru for a client - that doesn't exist - but who I am inventing to enter my life; plus being father & husband to my family.

And then on top of that, keep updating this blog.

Yes, I know that it sounds like I'm complaining, And yes I am - but only as a way of getting it out of my system. OK 5 minutes of complaing are now complete! But that is not what I'm committed to doing. So I have to admit that this feeling of overwhelm comes only from my everpresent feeling of being alone & that I have to do all this alone. And in distinguishing this for myself (with the assistance of my trusty coach), I see that if I was being honest with myself, I am really not alone.

The thing that showed up for me in the last month or so, is that 3 more people in my life have passed away. This is the excuse I use to feel alone - see I have evidence now that people are leaving me. "See they left - I am alone now!" But what I am not choosing to see is that they have gone to God & are now one with the creator. Isn't that what all faith-believing beings want? Even more on a personal level, they are not leaving ME!!!

So how do I accept and allow people into my life, so that the feeling of 'alone-ness' does not take me over?

And that's when this image showed up in my life. It is on YouTube & its called the Thousand-Hand Guan Yin. I was fascinated with the quote in the description which I am recreating here:

As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart, A thousand hands will naturally come to your aid.
As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart, You will reach out with a thousand hands to help others.

Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion, revered by Buddhists as the Goddess of Mercy. Her name is short for Guan Shi Yin.

Guan - means to observe, watch, or monitor;
Shi - means the world;
Yin - means sounds, specifically sounds of those who suffer.

Thus, Guan Yin is a compassionate being who watches for, and responds to, the people in the world who cry out for help.

This really caught my attention! Guan Shi Yin is the "goddess with a thousand hands. She watches for those in need and has a thousand hands to help."

Metaphorically I understand this to mean that I don't have to do this work alone. I can rely on, and create others to be the thousand hands around me, who can assist in getting this done.

As the performer in the video could not do the dance alone. She had others, to create with her, the beautiful dance & imagery that inspired the audience & inspired me.

Another common Metaphor that comes to mind is President Bush (Senior). He used to say "A Thousand Points of Light"

I am but one point of light & together the thousand points of light can transform the world.

So now I am not alone...

I have chosen to create myself to be one with others and will continue with my commitment to have the people of the world experience - oneness with God.