I just wanted to share this beautiful quote from Toko-pa, which came to mind today while working with a client who is showing great courage in working through painful memories of an abusive childhood:
“In music, we call it ‘sympathetic resonance’ when a passive string responds to an external vibration with harmonic likeness.
Similarly, when conditions are just right, our core issues can be triggered with all the potency of the original trauma.
But in those terrible moments, something amazing is happening: an aperture is opening up for us to heal the past.
The present, in its infinite wisdom, is allowing us to touch the old wound, offering us a chance to feel all the way through it, to finally let our grief run its full course.”
