June 26, 2011: Follow Your Heart

Hola, All! Here I am, on the eve of another adventure! Tomorrow I leave for Guatemala with my friend, Edna, who is also bilingual..........yipee!! I met Edna several years ago through her sister and my good friend, Cynthia, who passed to the other side. Sometimes I talk to Cyndi in my mind, knowing that she hears me; tears are falling down my face as I remember how she was so full of life and laughter! Such a joy to be around, and you talk about courage...........it oozed out of every pore of her body! Cyndi showed us how to accept with courage and grace those things that can destroy our lives, if we let them. She had a feistiness about her that I just wanted to capture and inhale until it filled all my cells! With determination and strength, Cyndi followed her heart. And, that's the main reason that I am going to Guatemala; my heart has been calling me to return. Near the end of my last visit in September, 2008, I heard about a small town on Lake Atitlan called San Marcos La Laguna that had a holistic/meditation center. In a nutshell, holistic healing is treating the whole person, not just one part. For instance, if you have a headache, you usually take ibuprofen and the headache goes away (to return at another inopportune time). But, holistic healing looks at why you got the headache in the first place, trying to find the source of the headache and not just treating the symptom. That's what Edna and I are interested in learning more about.
Our adventure starts tomorrow in Guatemala City, where Patricia's B&B will send a driver to pick us up at the airport. The next morning they have arranged for a van to take us to Panajachel, a 3 hour drive on roads that wind through the mountains. In Pana we will eat lunch, exchange money, possibly do some shopping, and take a 'yacht' across Lake Atitilan to San Marcos, where we will live for the next 5 days. On Sunday, July 3, just two towns over in San Juan,we will meet up with a group from Denton to do some mission work, returning on July 10. I will write about our adventures as time permits!
Follow your heart,
Dawnie