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How A Gong Taught Me About Trust And Coherence
This story took years for me to understand
I experienced the Nepal earthquake in 2015. I was blessed to be relatively physically safe. Emotionally, mentally, and spiritually it sent me into an extended dark night of the soul. It took me five years to realise what was happening to me. I felt such guilt and utter desolation at the time because I knew I had to leave Nepal, because of my mental health, my heart was screaming out to me to stay and help the rebuild effort, help those people that had lost everything that day. It’s still a unmet need I hold in my heart.
I was due to trek the Annapurna circuit in 2015, it takes roughly a month, and it starts in Pokhara, the second city of Nepal, which services a lot of the tourism around hiking. Now I look back I knew I wasn’t mentally or physically prepared to take the hike, and somatically, my nervous system was so reactive and incoherent, that I would’ve struggled on the circuit so in a way you could say that spirit intervened for me on that day. I know now that my respiratory system was so weak and strained back then as well.
I returned to Nepal and the circuit in 2017, I hiked all the way up to the Tibetan region in the north of Nepal called Manang. When I got up there — and it really is up there at altitude, I noticed that I was starting to get sick, but I ignored it…
