DAY THIRTY-ONE: THE SWEETNESS OF LEARNING Talking with awareness

DAY THIRTY-ONE: THE SWEETNESS OF LEARNING
Talking with awareness
This is a biggie.

This is a life changer.

This is a zone where we may not have ever gone.
Good.


Here’s the deal. We come into a state of being present when we stop the talking, when we get silent, when we follow our breathing, or move slowly with awareness, or sense our arms and legs and spine.

We go to a great yoga class, or an Awareness Through Movement class, and get close to a sense of who we are underneath all the words. And then after the class: yammer, yammer, yammer about how great it was to be so present.

And, oh dear, we are not present while we are yammering.


So that’s today’s game: to be present as we talk.

How to do this?

One: sense, as we are making the words in our mouths, some part of our body below the neck. Sense our feet, our legs, our legs and arms and spine, our belly, our rear end. Anything at the same time the words are coming out.

Two: sense the word making game, the using of our tongues and teeth and jaw and throat.

Three: sense the vibration in our throat and chest and head as we speak.

Four: actually listen to our words as we are speaking them.

Five: to look at and really see the person to whom we are speaking these words.


As if we were an actor in a play, except the play is our life, and the character is us, and we have this amazing ability to use language. And we have an even more amazing ability to do this all from an awaring and awake place.