July 9, 2023, Sunday Afternoon, Healing Circle
Healing and Lord of the Dance
Barbara: As I was talking with Aaron earlier this week, I was still meditating with the fear and concern about a possible amputation, he said, “Why is there any need to explore that idea of an amputation?”
I said, it could happen, so I have to be prepared.
He said being prepared doesn’t mean looking at a possible amputation. It means just watching fear as it comes up and knowing how to relate to that fear with love. But if you keep practicing having equanimity with a possible amputation, in some ways you are bringing energy to inviting the amputation.
Instead, simply practice loving kindness toward anything, even the mosquito bite, the thunder, whatever has disturbed your environment, just practice love and continue to envision the perfectly healed foot.
There is a beautiful song, Lord of the Dance. (See below for full lyrics.) In a beautiful, healing meditation I was watching dancing from outside the circle, the one who could not dance. I envisioned Yeshua coming to me and saying, “Dance with two feet,” then doing it. So, I’ve been looking at the distorted belief that it could be skillful to practice imagining being with some area of pain or deprivation or whatever.
I can understand what he means, saying that that’s simply opening an invitation by saying, “Hey, I need to practice. Oh, come on Catalyst,” instead saying, “I choose to practice only with love.”
Knowing the wholeness of the body; knowing joy. And if something comes up that’s challenging, I know I have the skill and love to meet the situation with love. Not to envision it so I can practice. Just to let it go. The inviting of it is just a voice of fear.
Each time any fear about the foot has come up. I’ve come back into my heart and envisioned that song, dance, dance wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he… envisioning Yeshua before me, inviting me, me just dancing joyfully with two feet. The catalysts are here for our learning, or else, as Aaron puts it, why incarnate/ What would we learn if there were no challenges? But enough catalyst will come a sufficient teacher. I don’t need to invite them or to fear them. And I can learn without terrible pain.
Lord of the Dance
I danced in the morning
When the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem I had my birth.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he
I danced for the scribe
And the pharisee,
And they wouldn’t follow me.
I danced for the fishermen,
For James and John
They came with me
And the Dance went on.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he
I danced on the Sabbath
And I cured the lame;
The holy people
Said it was a shame.
They whipped and they stripped
And they hung me on high,
And they left me there
On a Cross to die.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he
I danced on a Friday
When the sky turned black
It’s hard to dance
With the devil on your back.
They buried my body
And they thought I’d gone,
But I am the Dance,
And I still go on.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he
They cut me down
And I leapt up high;
I am the life
That’ll never, never die;
I’ll live in you
If you’ll live in me –
I am the Lord
Of the Dance, said he.