The Healing Nothing

Do you feel identified with one side of yourself, or another?

We all have many parts.

I feel, these days more than ever, the healing qualities of emptiness, of feeling into what’s behind, underneath and pervading.

Saying we are all of it, and saying we are none of it, are two ways of saying the same thing.

I am resting in the healing nothing today.

My invitation to you:

Reflect on what’s inside you and all around, that loves you and heals you. If it feels better to be empty today, of any of it, reflect on that. If it feels better to be one with all of it, holding it all close to you, be that today.

When you’ve spent a little time meditating, journaling, or drawing about this healing nothing, create some kind of an art piece to anchor it into form for yourself and others.

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My example below is from my 2016 album Auguries, which was my first try at recording everything myself. It is so wonderfully, painfully flawed, full of conscious and unconscious oddities and happenstance. I was living in a very bare bones casita with my husband at the time, I recorded some of the songs outside. It’s hard to listen to if I’m feeling critical. But today I can acknowledge, the songs are full of wild, green soul, so I am for it.

with love,

~Holly Mae

There is a tide that pulls on me
That draws me out, ever onward out to sea
There’s an embrace that stakes a claim in me
That pulls me onward out to sea
Like a siren song sung my whole life long
It lures me onward out to sea

It’s in the right side, and the left side too
And in the center, and in the nothing

Am I the child lost in the wild, or am I the wild with my arms around the child?

There is a tugging tide in me, that rides me high and drops me low
And it pulls me onward, out to sea
There is a call so deep that resounds in me, fathomless water
And there is a shine that pines for every cell in my body
And it pulls me outward out to sea

It’s in the right side, and the left side too

And in the center of the nothing