Manda Scott

The Vikings lost the Battle of Largs in 1263, but I learned about that from a group of Viking reenactors.

And so for most of my life, I thought that we lost, as in the Scots, lost the Battle of Largs.

Anyway, there were a lot of Vikings in Scotland in the 1200s.

And generations of my family were working the land in ways where I think self-judgment and judgment of the other was the patterning of the time.

And we don't need to go into the history of that.

I don't need to know this.

The story doesn't matter and it's not about the trigger.

I'm only telling you that to give you a sense of context.

If you work with this and you want to get into story, then please go and find a therapist.

But personally, I don't actually think it helps.

What matters now is that I give my attention to this elongated rhomboid with its particular texture and tone and scent and heat and let my attention rest on it and breathe into it.

And simply by doing these, simply by letting it know that I am here,

that there is a system around it, that it's not alone.

There is a change in the vibration.

And then, if I can, with all integrity and authenticity, say, thank you.

I see you.

Thank you for being there.

How can you and I work together?

What can we do?

And I'm not specifying to do what I am simply asking, what can we do together?