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Stop!

4/22/2015

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Sometimes you just have to stop and get back to reality! For example, my kids are all crying and not going to bed, I am cross with them because I have lots of work to do; I am also cooking tomorrow nights supper, my tea water is getting cold and I have to do an email (I have to!), and I am not exactly in a good space at the moment. So here is my advice to myself and anyone else who reads this far: if everything seems to be working against you then stop and do nothing for a moment. Feel your feet, think about the earth energy flowing up into your body, notice your breathing, wait, feel what is happening. Do this and then you will be ready to act from a calmer, less reactive space. You might even find some amusement which will definitely help. All this takes very little time but getting your space back in this way is great. Who knows why you got thrown off kilter, it could be a myriad of reasons none of which are important. When you stop and let go in this way you allow yourself to get realigned with the flow of everything around you, and your life can work again! 

Meditation gives you a chance to practice some tools that help clear the reactive parts of you so there is less inside you that gets 'wound up' by the circumstances you find yourself in. Meditation can help you relax and transform yourself. Ironically sometimes you do something in meditation that makes you a little more reactive as a deeper unconscious part of you wakes up and becomes 'live'. It is a good idea to firstly know this is a possibility and secondly to notice when it happens so you can not be so caught up in it. (it is what I have called a 'growth period' and is a great opportunity for change even if it does not feel like it when you are in the middle of it). Last month I talked about doing nothing and how difficult that is. Behind or beyond or as well as the part of us that is always doing is another part that when it comes to the fore feels very different- sometimes it feels like my awareness become very large- perhaps you have experienced this or something similar. This other part of ourselves is always there waiting for us, watching, being, guiding, accepting, embracing, supporting- it is you. It is not always obvious but it is always there. When we stop and do nothing that is what we find. See if what I say is true for you .....

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Coincidence?

2/19/2015

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I have a 'coincidence' story for your amusement this month. I went to Birmingham to visit my wife's grandmother and after seeing her on Sunday morning we needed a place for lunch. IKEA loomed nearby so we opted for that and duly parked and worked our way up to the restaurant. At the exact moment we arrived in the food queue on our side of the restaurant, our good friend from Letchworth and her 6 year old also arrived. They were on their way to Wales and just happened to be there at the exact time to meet us ... so that is a coincidence of course. We enjoyed a very pleasant lunch and catch up together and then went in our opposite directions. But the exactness of this coincidence made me think about another explanation: that perhaps our lives are energetically entwined in ways that we cannot comprehend as we go through them. If you have seen the movie 'Cloud Atlas' or read the book 'The Years of Rice and Salt' by Kim Stanley Robinson, you will have come across these ideas. And they are obviously a big part of many spiritual traditions. I don't often talk about energetic connections between people as I like to focus on the practical aspects of meditation but it may be time to work on this. Connections between people can be simple like an energetic cord, the simplest of which is between mother and child, or more complex which could be across lifetimes, which is one interpretation of karma. Again, different lifetimes, karma and so on can be off putting to some people who just want to learn meditation and enjoy its benefits so I don't often talk about them. Perhaps this 'coincidence' is a reminder to me that the world in which we live is an energetic one, and being sensitive to this as much as I can be and giving myself time to appreciate it by meditating could be the real reason I am here. I would enjoy hearing your thoughts and comments if you have time, or perhaps you have a similar story?

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