I discovered washed up pieces of glass along the sea edge and couldn’t resist collecting them. Many of the pieces had clearly come from alcohol bottles such as beer and wine. We have a culture of drinking in this country, so it felt like they had washed up ‘healed’ with the edges no longer sharp or harmful. Hence why I affectionally started calling them ‘healed glass’.
Glass as I discovered is both naturally and human made. Glass begins its’ journey as sand which represents all that came before our unique births such as earth herself in the form of floods, ice ages, continental shift and changing life forms. Human beings helped shape the world through the migration of people, famines, wars, treaties, slavery, politics, technology, etc. The list is endless but it all shapes the world we enter. Like us, glass is transformed into many different forms. For example, reading glasses, alcohol vessels, windows, mirrors, ornaments, etc. When I was born, my father was only allowed to look at me through a window in a nursery. I’m not that old 😊. So, glass separated me from human contact with family members at birth. At some point in life, glass breaks and becomes sharp. I liken this to my youth when I’m still in a shiny ego state and I still have sharp edges which represent my tongue, thoughts and actions. Sadly, today broken glass is often used to harm and remove pain by creating pain. Eventually though, the glass gets washed into the rivers and streams where it all ends up in the ocean tumbling about for years. I believe this represents the turbulence or life experiences that shape us into the adults we become. The glass eventually washes up smoothed and opaque. No longer shiny. The ego is now humbled by life and wisdom. Harder to find on the beach because it no longer reflects the sun. The edges are no longer sharp with the potential to harm. When I am upstream, I will throw any worries or hopes into the waterway to be carried downstream. I always add aroha/love in with those thoughts to protect everything downstream. When next at the beach I stand in the water and receive the healed energy of those thoughts.
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