You learned to tie your shoes, and it was a most amazing skill. “Look what I can do!” you felt, and you have tied them the same way ever since. This pattern of one loop over another is a pattern within larger patterns that play themselves out over and over because they are useful. Some patterns, like tying your shoes, have withstood the test of time. We dare say there are others that could benefit from a closer look. Find those which no longer serve you and create new patterns. In this way you grow.
You are so very loved.
Dear Suzanne, this is so profound! From the simplicity of tying shoelaces to the complexity of finding patterns which no longer serve us; who would ever have linked the two to see a deeper truth in the analogy? Thank you so much, I needed to hear that right now. With love from Namibia, Elke
I heard one if my brothers in a very excited voice, call to mum, “She tied her own shoes… no one helped her… …honest!
Had it not been for his excitement, i doubt i would have remembered the success as an event or even as a pattern. Yet because of his excitement, I had remember this day not as the first time i tied my my own shoes, but that i had taken myself up to the task because no one was there to help or tell me, at every stage, if i was doing it right – …but more than that, i remember that day because i was surprised people liked that i was helping myself… though i had imagined i always did. But that day, i realized, in that excitement, they were talking about something else and that made my head turn a bit.
And as to patterns: yes, it’s true, my head and I still turn when i learn something new or when i recognize an old pattern that needs updating to myself and/or to others.
But yea, that maybe was the first day i completed tieing my own shoes.
So much can be gathered and tied up together, happening in a minute eh! Who knew?