Waves
break as they come to the shore; waterfalls are created when water lets
go down small and large cracks in the earth; leaves fall from the trees
in the autumn as a way to allow new growth to develop.
The
rhythms of flowing and staccato collide and create the rhythm of chaos.
In chaos we let go and empty out, releasing whatever it is that holds
us back from connecting with our sense of being a free spirit.
Chaos
is letting go - letting go of people when they die, relationships when
they fall apart, emotions when they threaten to destroy us, thoughts
when they sabotage us, and memories when they hold us back.
In
this work chaos is the rhythm associated with water. The Tao Te Ching
says, "Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for
dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it."
The rhythm of chaos helps us loosen and dissolve the parts of ourselves
that have hardened and become inflexible and fearfilled.
"It
is part of the human drama to form attachments and it is part of the
chaotic nature of reality to shake and break those attachments. When
we break we feel sorrow. The healthy response is to surrender and let
the grief move you and move through you. The unhealthy response is either
to tough it out, deny it or wallow in it …Loss requires grieving and
grieving requires shattering and shattering is letting go into chaos.
If you do not surrender to chaos you become something rigid in a universe
that is moving…The deepest teaching of chaos is surrender." (Roth)
Chaos
embodies a deep relaxation, as we cannot 'do' chaos or use effort in
chaos. Chaos is the gateway to our intuitive mind, the part of us that
opens us to our potential, our presence and our individuality.
In
chaos we learn how to get underneath our logical, rational mind. We
learn how to get in touch with our spontaneous, creative impulses and
how to move them through our body. Chaos teaches us how to let go and
how to move into the unknown. It allows us to dance our own dance not
concerned as to what other think of us. It is the gateway to real freedom.
In this work chaos is the rhythm of adolescence. When one is letting
go of childhood and working towards adulthood and maturity.
The
shadow side of chaos is destruction and confusion. |
