Aroha

Aroha emanates from this poem by New Zealand Gestalt therapist Anne Maclean. She writes about “The Heart of Gestalt”⁴:

When I call all my senses home

into my central core

then I know a deep peace

just simply being.

Here is unconditional love and compassion

Heart deepening and expanding

to accept whatever I am

or have been, or will become.

No tugs of war between anything,

and all of me

simply here.⁵

From: Grounds for Gestalt, Foreground Press, 1994

I’ve been reading/studying about New Zealand since I’m planning to go there late fall. And the term “aroha” surfaced on a website so I did a search on  it… and this is an excerpt from a paper about Aroha and Gestalt Therapy which can be found at: http://partnering.inet.net.nz/a/aroha.htm

Beautiful, beautiful concept. And my sense is that it goes so much deeper than this poem… to include all of the natural world. Indeed, All Our Relations…

;~)