Where did your feet take you this week? And were you really there…..
Life emerges out of the silence of our inner being. And so began the reading I used by Reggie Ray this week, in an article titled “Busyness is laziness”. The simple message being that the busier we become, the more we can shut down our brain. Being on a treadmill, making sure there are no empty spaces where we may have to actually touch that silence within. That busyness is habitual, and the easy way out. Here is a link to the full article if you would like to read it.
I would like to walk through a couple of practices that we
used this week to help us slow down and begin to tap into that inner
silence. The present moment. The stillness of the earth energy.
- Notice
the whole back of your body. From the
back of your head down to the tailbone.
Now visualize that absolutely everything that has happened up to this
very moment is behind the body. Everything. See it there.
Feel it there. That is the
past. It no longer exists.
So on your next exhale send it a little further away from you. Again and again……….
Now notice the center of your body – that line of energy that runs from the crown to the tailbone an inch or two in front of the spine. Trace it with your breath.
This is where you find the present moment. This is where you begin to sense the silence of your inner being.
Simply notice it………………often
So on your next exhale send it a little further away from you. Again and again……….
Now notice the center of your body – that line of energy that runs from the crown to the tailbone an inch or two in front of the spine. Trace it with your breath.
This is where you find the present moment. This is where you begin to sense the silence of your inner being.
Simply notice it………………often
- Sometimes when we are on that treadmill of life
it seems that the past determines the future.
Things replay themselves over and over and over. Like the old days when one of your albums had
a skip in it, and the same line would play over and over and over. The needle stuck in the groove until you
purposefully moved it.
Life is no different.
Bring to mind something that you were doing right before reading this. Something in your day that has stuck with you (good or bad). Anything. Bring it fully into your mind and your body. Seeing it and feeling it.
Now close your eyes while you are still seeing and feeling it, and with a long slow exhale, watch your exhale gradually pushing it further and further down the body until finally the breath pushes it out of the body and back into the earth.
And notice how the inhale that flows in up that center line of the body is now so clean and clear and empty. A new groove on the record.
This is where our true source of creation is. From here we can create anything we want and project it on to that clean, limitless, white canvas that is in front of the body.
Life is no different.
Bring to mind something that you were doing right before reading this. Something in your day that has stuck with you (good or bad). Anything. Bring it fully into your mind and your body. Seeing it and feeling it.
Now close your eyes while you are still seeing and feeling it, and with a long slow exhale, watch your exhale gradually pushing it further and further down the body until finally the breath pushes it out of the body and back into the earth.
And notice how the inhale that flows in up that center line of the body is now so clean and clear and empty. A new groove on the record.
This is where our true source of creation is. From here we can create anything we want and project it on to that clean, limitless, white canvas that is in front of the body.
And finally –
- Tonight when you lie down in bed and settle in,
work toward becoming stiller and stiller.
Breathe there. Take your time. No rush.
Begin to notice what it “feels” like to be completely still.
It has a very unique sensation. Feel it.
And the longer you can remain relaxed and perfectly still, and the more aware you become of your stillness, the more you will begin to notice what is happening inside of the body.
The stiller you are, the more aliveness you will sense inside. It becomes boundless ……because it is. The energy of YOU.
Begin to notice what it “feels” like to be completely still.
It has a very unique sensation. Feel it.
And the longer you can remain relaxed and perfectly still, and the more aware you become of your stillness, the more you will begin to notice what is happening inside of the body.
The stiller you are, the more aliveness you will sense inside. It becomes boundless ……because it is. The energy of YOU.
But for all of this, we must do the necessary work to find
stillness in our day. To spend time
alone. To drop down to the earth and
soak up her mothering, boundless, nurturing, slow vibrating energy.
And now it’s time to move up this center line to Svadisthana, our water chakra…………………
Now that we have become rooted to earth, have left our past “behind” us, and have connected to that inner silence of our being where we see that we can create anything that we want……………………………………. Now we have to be sure we know what that is!!!
These next two weeks as we work with the element of water,
we will tap into the well of desire. Digging deep to uncover what is it that we truly
want. What will fulfill us and give our
life a sense of purpose. We found the
stillness and now introduce some movement, lying back and riding the current of
the Universe.
No struggle. Finding
our flow………………….
MMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………………………………………
I wrote this while sitting in my medicine wheel garden with
bunny at my side. What could be better than
that?
I am right here,
SARAH
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