LIVING WITH INTENTION IN NAIROBI

I have been living in Nairobi, Kenya for over two months now, and it was love at first sight! AS much as I loved the home I lived in before I came here, I was happy that I do not feel homesick for it. Although this is temporary, I feel quite at home here, and felt immediately connected to this place, and am delighted to be here.

For several years now, I have held an intention that “I am always in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing, with the right people, and I am abundantly supported in fulfilling my life’s purpose, for the highest good of all.” Holding this intention, I let go of any preconceptions and attachments to outcome. I believe that this intention brought me to Holos U, and led me to create, experience, research and share the Creative Holistic Integration (CHI)process -an energy-based practice of conscious wholeness - and to continue to grow in understanding of its effects and meaning, and observe how it changes the lives of those who practice it.

About two weeks after I submitted my dissertation, my husband accepted a job in Nairobi, Kenya. We were both ready for a change of scene. The first three weeks of July we focused on sorting out our material possessions: what will go into storage, what to ship to Kenya that would help us feel more at home in our new environment. Everything else we gave away to various charities, friends and neighbors.

By the end of July, we were in Nairobi, among welcoming people, enjoying the most amazing weather, in a comfortable house surrounded by a large yard with flowers and fruit trees with monkeys, and brilliantly colored song birds. Within two weeks I found myself working two days a week in the holistic support program of a brand new cancer treatment center, housed in a beautifully designed circular building with light streaming in from the windows all around. This felt like the right place at the right time.

I volunteered to facilitate a holistic self-care program that emphasizes wholeness, providing information and support intended to enable cancer patients and survivors to take responsibility for their own care and healing, and to reclaim and celebrate their lives. The Creative Holistic Integration (CHI) Process, a.k.a. the Wholeness Exercise, the subject of my research and dissertation, is at the core of the holistic self-care program. Each month I offer a 4-session series that introduces participants to the experience of “Being Energy” and “Being Whole,” centering in the heart, connecting consciously through imagination and breath with the energy of Earth and Universe, tapping into creativity and the electromagnetic language of the body to support themselves on their healing journey. The individual consultations follow the process I developed in my Integrative Spiritual Counseling course to work through issues of concern and stuck patterns, using appropriate transpersonal /transformational energy tools, always preceded by the Wholeness Exercise. The significant effects clients observe in themselves are encouraging, and it seems like I’ m doing the right thing with the right people.

The holistic practitioners who are my co-workers provide healing support for me as needed. I was offered a work space at a reasonable price, to set up a private practice if I wished to. I have also been blessed with the services of a delightful Kenyan housekeeper, who enthusiastically cooks the most delicious Sri Lankan food (possibly the only Kenyan who does!!!!) and just about anything I provide a recipe for, and a gardener who is helping me grow organic vegetables and herbs in my backyard, and is creating beautiful outdoor spaces. Along with my husband who provides me with the opportunity to live and work in this beautiful place, these people represent the abundant support I receive from the Universe.

I know that I AM in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing with the right people, and am abundantly supported in fulfilling my life’s purpose. I see that it is good, and I am deeply grateful.