Open your Eyes

My first leap out of the corporate world was into massage therapy. Massage worked miracles on me after a car accident, and I have an intense passion and deep appreciation for the work. In fact, massage was not only the beginning of a career change but a life change as well. I hold it in the highest esteem.
The hardest thing about going into the massage field was not the physical toll on the body, not the work it takes to start a business, but the association of massage with prostitution. In fact, any reference of one with the other sent me directly to righteous indignation and a trip onto my soap box.
However, a couple of weeks ago I watched a special report on MSNBC on human trafficking. It highlighted the very sad and horrific stories of women who were tricked and then forced into sex slavery, under threat of their own lives and the lives of their families. Many of these women were forced to work 18 hour days in “massage parlors”, not just abroad, but here in the U.S. as well.
It was heartbreaking and unimaginable that this is so prevalent. It made me feel grateful for having the opportunities afforded to me, but pessimistic overall. In the face of such cruelty and oppression, where is the goddess?
Then I realized what I felt: compassion, empathy, sadness. No longer did I feel such intense anger toward the women who erroneously held themselves out as masseuses or even worse – massage therapists. My view had changed, and another aspect of the Goddess became awakened in my heart.
I then contemplated, how many other times have I assumed without knowing the whole story? How many opportunities to open my heart had passed me by because I knew I was “right”?
By looking through the eyes of the Goddess we can be open to see the entire situation, not just our own narrow view. The Goddess asks you to look behind the book cover and actually read the story. Who knows, you may just find a map to the hidden treasure in you!

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