Day Thirty-five: Now is Gold

DAY THIRTY-FIVE : FEEDING/ FINDING OUR SOUL
We are always in the now

When we are turning our heads to the left, we can do that only in the present moment. When we turn our heads right while we turn our eyes left, we can do that only in the present.

However, we can be unaware that we are in the present. We can be daydreaming about the night to come, or fretting about the day past. Or we can be right there, sensing our necks and our spines and our ribs and our shoulder blades and our pelvis.

This is the grand advantage to movement work with attention: it is such a fine opportunity to be present.

And, get this: every moment is a grand opportunity to be present.

As you read these words, right now, your breathing is something you could be aware of. In and out: the breath.

Up and down: the world of gravity.

As we have been playing with: you could be reading these words outside of yourself, and hearing the sounds outside of yourself, and sensing both arms and both legs and your spine.

Ten fingers, ten toes.

Two arms, two legs.

One spine.

Breathing coming in and out.

Light coming in.

Sound coming in.


Being present, in a certain way, in a certain very grand way, is making love to life.

Dedicate this day to being present as a gift to yourself, the gift of living your life with awareness and now-ness and awake-ness as you live your life.


This is words until you do it.

Then it is gold.

Trinity within a trinity

once upon a time
there was a standard
trinity:
father, son, and holy ghost

for some it was great
for some it is great
for some it doesn't really work

here's a trinity I like:

Now,
Nature,
Love

I could write gobs
on how they are almost the same
how they feed
and maintain each other
and
I
won't

inside these are more trinities:

Now:

knowing the now connection to gravity
knowing the now connection to air (breathing)
knowing the now connection to light and sound (free neck, head mobile, where are we oriented, where are we in the world)

Nature:
outside, big earth nature
inside, the small world of our bodies
the nature or Organic Life and that miracle of awareness of It ALL

Love:
loving our real Self (not the image)
loving the Earth
Loving Others (especially when they aren't lovable)

there's more

this can
be
almost everything

and experienced
if way
beyond words

the peace that passeth
understanding