Moving at the Speed Of Light or With Earth Time?

Daylight is contracting again, and before today (Daylight Savings) the creep of darkness was so slow and gradual, the imperceptible accumulation of days, weeks, months before I began to notice that light faded at 6 at night, as opposed to 8:30. This slow, steady, hardly perceptible accumulation of change is a reminder to temper my expectations for change in the physical manifestation of healing in my own body. While I, or we, may wish and sometimes try to will healing to happen faster, more often it’s not until I look back and see that things have indeed changed! Immaterial and without density, our minds and Spirit, can change instantly (and often do), literally at the speed of light, whether that’s a lightbulb moment of inspiration, illumination, realization, or even just a change of heart or mood.

I believe that we ought to all believe in miracles - change for the better can happen instantaneously, but we will be long disappointed when we expect deep healing to occur at the speed of light, or at the speed of our thoughts and perceiving minds. There’s comfort in the slow accumulation of change in the material world, it allows us to be able to predict, rely, and steady ourselves on its more or less moment to moment constancy. As humans, we are physically made of the same clay of constancy as the Earth, rendering a good reminder that durable changes, sustained healing, and deep nourishment happen at the slow plod of earth turning with the seasons, and not without bouts of getting stuck in the mud of rutted patterns. So often it’s the disjunction of moving at the speed of light (or minds) in these earthen bodies that can cause health disharmonies. For myself, I first notice that I’ve been a disembodied head moving through the world through my belly - a loss in appetite, a feeling of nausea, a lack of ability to fully experience and appreciate my food… How do you know when you’ve been moving too fast for too long?