22/03/2023
T.O - K.N.O.W - N.A.T.U.R.E
I.S - T.O - K.N.O.W - O.N.E S.EL.F
Sometimes the sound is so feint you can barely hear the call.
Sometimes you are so numb you can barely feel at all.
Sometimes you hear it, but you dont pick up.
Sometimes you feel it but its just not enough.
I have found, often its the simple pleasures that bring you back online.
Sipping in those fresh flower smells.
Feeling your bare feet on the earth.
The sun on your skin.
And sometimes it takes visiting
A place outside 4 walls,
A place beyond the technology that enslaves your senses daily,
A place where your attention is fully captured by the beauty before you,
A place and a moment so wonderful,
you are filled with gratitude and are overcome by the deepest breath you have ever taken.
Something like this calls to you each day..
Sometimes in a whisper, sometimes its so loud it hurts.
CHANGE
The beauty of an open landscape and a wilderness that yearns to be explored.
Imagine.. if this environment you are exploring, these discoveries you are making, was the map to the inside of your very own being.
The caves, rivers, views,
The creatures, critters, flowers,
The cloud formations and weather patterns..
If these things could speak
What would they say to you in this moment?
Each interaction, each moment, each breath,
Speaks, reflects back to you something.
Each moment holds medicine,
Each discovery, growing a knowing inside of you.
Each breath in
Carries our intention, our question
Each breath out
Carries our trust in an answer to come
Each Pause between breaths
Carries the space we give to listen, to absorb.
Then the realisation hits you!
THIS IS LIFE !!!
And for a moment a thought arises..
What If...
I am these mountains
I am these rivers
I am these clouds
What If..
These people walking beside me,
I have chosen.
What if..
They are also part of me
Aspects seeking to be acknowledged, waters waiting to be stilled, so they can reflect back what is yet to be seen and done.
There is so much to see, but equally so much unseen existing within the same space.
The unseen, out of sight, must surely be felt, or heard?
I cant say I know anything for sure, but what I have learnt is;
To feel, I must learn to become quite, to listen,
I must create space, to change, I must lean into discomfort and apply effort.
Know the seasons, know what season you are in, tells you what medicine you need.
Slow down, speed up, less effort, more effort, learn to give, learn to receive, set boundaries, let your walls down, consume more, create more, more structure, less structure, more play, more work, get attention, pay attention.
One never has balance, one can only ever work towards balance.
Nature, Great Teacher,
holds the answers to all.
Grateful.
