The headline asks a very important question that few would find joy in trying to unwind. Not a judgement but rather an observation. What is within? Especially since we all experience it on an everyday basis at work, while jogging, driving through horrid traffic or while doing something creative by way of art. A runners high is very real. A mothers way of protecting her child several blocks from where she stands is traveling within. There is a source of communication without words when you build that path toward strengthening the ability to always return to your within. Yoga, meditation, studying religion are incredible keys that open the doors of what we assume is locked. Me being me. Going within seems selfish, self serving and without the proper knowledge of knowing what to do with the higher purpose of the energy. Doctors, preachers, caretakers and other community minded individuals experience within in deeper ways. It is the act of traveling within the mind body and soul of the passerby. Not to steal but to help heal. Not to take advantage but to hear the calling out of a path that too many love to hide. My most recent challenges with a very strong minded rescued dog tested the depths of the lessons learned. We don't know the true stories of the objects in front of us. We can only assume by the way their words have described. Jazzie the rescue came from three different families. Her anxiety level was on huge overload and it was very evident I had adopted an out of control destructive dog. Every day there was more and more damage. I swear she was eating my house. I looked at Jazzie one day and asked, "Are you here to free me from a past that I cannot change and the only way to make that move is to take it from my sight?" We get wrapped up in so many things that we forget to look within. We gripe about how fast life is moving and yet the clock has never sped up its pace between the clicks. Learning to look within the shapes that unfold in front of us teaches us that it's time to hear more than your heart. Jazzie is now 22 days without bringing down the house. We meditate together, she takes me for the walks, she invites me to wander through the forest watching spring come back to life in Carolina. Jazzie has proved not to be the distraction but rather the correction. We all go through this. Maybe its time we stop pushing whats wrong away and learn from it. Use your gift of going within others so that you can see the stronger more faithful you that's still alive beneath your skin.