As I sit here writing, our 6-month-old kitten Muffin is
purring on my lap. She has also become
my meditation buddy, curling up and purring away as I settle down, then
becoming still as I do. Later this
morning, she could be leaping to the window to investigate the hawk’s cry
outside, or racing with gay abandon across the yard when I let her outside.
She is such a great teacher for being fully present in
whatever state she is in – responding with ease to life’s circumstances, always
coming back to her center. She is truly the mistress of being in the Flow.
How easy it is for us humans to get wound up, to get locked
in to the fight or flight mode, to live from reactive moment to reactive moment
as we vainly try to get life to behave. A rather hopeless task, dooming us to
exhaustion.
Luckily, we have a reset button. Simply pausing to be aware,
to take notice of the telltale signs that we are heading in to a state of
tightness and reactivity. Simply noticing. Not jumping to condemn and scolding
ourselves for stepping out of the flow, but simply noticing. Then adjusting.
Just the way Muffin shifts her position on my lap until she finds the perfectly
comfortable sweet spot. A deeper breath.
A gentle releasing of the shoulders.
Letting go of the clenched jaw. Coming
back to center, and choice.
In this way, we regain our ability to be fully present in
this ever-changing world. We gain access to our higher functioning, options
unfold all around us, our creativity blossoms, we are in the Flow.
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