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Traveling Light: Leave the Baggage Within
by admin ·
It is difficult to imagine anyone living in all the Arizona space and sun having any problems at all. Still, in Scottsdale therapists are thriving and in Phoenix counseling is used equally as much as those in winter climates of the country. Perhaps it is the large number of retired persons who move to these more congenial environments to stay forever in golfing bliss, only to find that even though the weather is nice, and the air is dry, they are still who they were before, except now lacking in purpose and far away from their loved ones.
Perhaps it is all that sunshine that keeps a person always on the go, never able to take a quiet rainy day to be depressed on their own. Instead they have to golf and swim and play tennis and be strong and tan and healthy. Certainly, some spots in Arizona, such as Sedona are presented as consciousness uplifting, but once again, the the important expression here is up. This area is filled with vortexes that increase your energy, awareness and overall consciousness. Nowhere is it ever proclaimed that there is a vortex that causes you togaze profoundly at the pain you have caused yourself and others. The vortexes are just beautiful, places where you can magically heal without having to do any of that nasty internal self-examination that therapists so frequently facilitate.
The Grand Canyon is majestic and inspiring. All smallness disappears in the face of such grandeur , until we get back in our cars and have to drive in one lane of puttering traffic, and get pulled over by the Flagstaff police for going fifty-five in a thirty-five miles per hour zone and then get stuck in an ice storm the next morning where the car spins off the side of the road because you didn’t think to put snow tires on, because you were going to Arizona, where it’s always sunny and you were just in Phoenix tubing down the river a few days before. The point is, that no matter where we go or what we do, in the end {the journey leads us back to ourselves the trip ends within and sometimes, if we are lost, it’s okay to get a little help, even if you do live in Arizona.
