Last Friday, late morning, I drove to a nearby nursery to pick up some annual flowers so I’d have them for planting over the weekend.
I was lost in thought when all of a sudden I saw a turkey scamper across the road. They always make me smile as they can really hustle when they need to.
I, of course, wondered if this sighting had a particular message for me. So I said to myself, “Stop, Barb. What was it you were just thinking about?”
A bazillion thoughts can go through our mind in any given span of time and we can so easily lose track of them. Our thoughts are like that you know. So many unnecessary and so many we don’t even realize are negative.
I realized that this was just what I’d been doing. Thinking negative thoughts. I was at the end of the week where I had just gone through an intense week of learning to breathe in a new way called the Buteyko Method. While I was relieved and happy with the results I was experiencing that helped me with my asthma I found myself feeling upset about why I had to suffer for so many decades.
Why didn’t I know about this sooner?
I was also going down the path of my frustration at times with our medical system. How often drugs are just prescribed and other avenues of healing aren’t given a second thought – or often dismissed as crazy or that they won’t work.
What message did the turkey have for me? Straight away I thought of turkey associated with Thanksgiving. Ah yes, Barb, be thankful you found this method. Indeed, I am.
Secondly, I thought about how the turkey was crossing the road. This led me to link it with the fact that I had a choice to cross to the other side with my thoughts. I could stay in the suffering of regret and frustration of our medical system, or I could swim in the delight of what I discovered, and that it’s helping me.
I then did a bit of research on the internet about Turkey symbolism and resonated with what Bernadette King had in part to say about Turkey: “Turkey is a surprisingly powerful Animal Ally. Maybe it’s because my heart has always been aligned with the underdog. Or, in this case, the underbird. UNDERBIRD! Sounds like a superhero, right?”
I realized I could have continued to be upset with the outside circumstances that eventually brought me to a new level of healing – and in essence, that can sometimes make us feel like the underdog (or underbird!). But by taking matters into my own hands I became the superhero of my own life – finding a way to help myself and in the process clearing away some emotional gunk that needed clearing.
Looking at the photo of this turkey some may think it ‘ugly’ and be repulsed, but I feel it can represent that part of us that sometimes does not want to look at what it is we are truly repulsed by within ourselves or more importantly, what teaching or healing can we gain from looking within.
Thank you, Turkey for your adorable wobble hustle across the road that guided me to get to the other side of my brain where it is a much happier place to reside.
XO
Barb
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