The Sacred Cycle of Life, Death, and Rebirth
A Time to Release What Has Completed Its Season Years ago, I created a guided meditation called Cycle of Life, Death and Rebirth: A Time to Release. (Posted on my Youtube channel) At the time, I understood it as a meditation on surrender, transition, and letting go. But with time, life has taught me that this cycle is not something we experience once. It is something we move through again and again. We are always becoming. And because we are always becoming, we are also always releasing. The Earth shows us this truth constantly. Spring moves into summer. Summer softens into fall. Fall gives way to winter. Then winter, in its quiet and hidden way, prepares the ground for life to return again. Nothing in nature stays in one form forever. Everything moves. Everything changes. Everything has a season. So do we. On the level of mind, body, and spirit, we experience life, death, and rebirth in many different forms. Sometimes the cycle is easy to recognize. A job ends. For a time, we are...
