Shock-How It Affects Our Healing

A LESSON I LEARNED FROM A HONEY BEE

My partner Quynh Nhu and I were at our neighborhood pool yesterday afternoon, and she saw a bee struggling and drowning in the water. It was a salt water pool, so I imagined it had been traumatized. She rushed to compassionately lift it with a handful of water on to the cement of the poolside, but it didn't move at all after the rescue. It appeared possibly dead, or at least in a state of total shock and exhaustion -- who knew how long it may have been in the water. As it lay there, I started praying to my Spiritual Teacher Ammachi to bless it, but I didn't feel Amma's response to my prayers... After some time, I thought, "Maybe Amma wants me to try to heal it... No, how absurd... I don't know how to heal a dying bee?"

Well, I started saying the Mrityunjaya mantra, which is a powerful healing mantra, and still I didn't feel any significant inner response.

So, I thought, “How would I work with a person I saw in this state? Well, let's tune in to him emotionally...” I could immediately feel his total hopelessness, mental block to moving and to even trying at all, and his desire just to die. "Wow," I thought, "even a bee has these complex emotions!" So I began helping him to feel more at peace, then joyful, and eventually full of hope for the future. We began seeing movement in his previously lifeless-looking body. The last emotion I helped clear was his wish to just die.

Well, in a few more minutes (about 10 mins since the rescue) I couldn't feel any more emotional blocks in him to getting better, and with even more prayers and some sunlight helping him to warm up, he made his first 2 second attempt at flight. Then, moments later, to our utter amazement, he took to the air and fully flew away! It sort of makes your afternoon wonderful when even a little miracle like this happens!

Anyway, I'm sharing this to alert us all that even the smallest of creatures have emotions, and how similar we all are when we become shocked in life -- it may sometimes be more of our mental/emotional blocks which prevent us from allowing our natural healing to take place, and return back to a place of wellness again! 🪷💖🐝💖🪷