Many native American cultures see animals as messengers. Similarly, I’m a big believer in watching for messages about our lives in the nature that surrounds us. For example, if you know the story of how I came to build Laughing Ladybug Yoga, you know the significance I place on natural messengers.

Over the last few days, 3 doves  have nearly flown straight into the windshield of my tiny little Smart car. dove

After the third one, I hollered, “OK! I get it!”

But what I was saying I “got,” I didn’t know. I had to do some research.

Here are some of the things I found: 

The Dove represents peace of the deepest kind. It soothes and quiets our worried and troubled thoughts, and enables us to find renewal in the silence of mind. In these moments of stillness we are able to appreciate the simple things in life.

Hmm. Almost crashing into my windshild was a bold move for a representative of peace. But I do tend to need a louder message than some people.

Doves are members of the pigeon family. Both symbolise the qualities of home, security and maternal instincts.

I have been doing a lot of “nesting” lately. Rearranging furniture and redecorating. I’ve been struggling a lot with quitting one of my yoga classes so that I have more time at home with my husband. I had a conversation with a client last week about the struggle to balance family and career, how we as women don’t really learn how to do that, but that we have to choose one or the other. 

If Dove flies into your life, you are being asked to go within and release your emotional disharmony, be it of the past or the present. Dove helps us to rid trauma stored within our cellular memory. Humming can help you with this release.

This really struck something in me when I read it, since it reminded me that trauma is stored in our cellular memory.

So I think that Dove is telling me that at this point in my life, and in the life of my marriage, it’s smart to direct so much energy to my home, homelife, and husband.  And that it’s time to cleanse my cellular memory of disharmony to make room for harmony.

I love that the natural world is so in tune with us, or that we’re so in tune with it. But really, neither is correct. We ARE nature, and nature IS us, so of course there is a natural flow of energy between the two.

What are your opinions about the struggle to balance home and career? How have you found it? Or have you? I’d love to hear from you.