Set A Goal And Journey There
Today I have run around the back streets of Ipsos and along the front – twice…
Once this morning for 5 miles and then again this evening, and I ran the same 5 mile route…
I chose this run because apart from a bit of a climb back to Stefanos place in the final mile, the rest is all very very flat… This felt nice and easy, and relaxing for my body, after the stony, rocky hilly trails around Pantokrator yesterday…
I went onto our balcony before setting off. The dawning day was clear, still and misty; but already the heat was burning of the haze and bringing a sparkle to the sea... All was very quiet as I jogged down the road, the seafront was all mine… But even so, it seems I was spotted by most of the community…
Later…
I am sitting in Calypso, a coffee and cocktail bar by the sea…
Anadi is sitting beside me writing, writing, writing
For many years now, I have used guided writing as a form of connecting with my deeper wisdom, or higher self…
The information I ‘download’ is always accurate and it is useful when facing stuck areas, confusion, pain, what next? times…
I have come to trust what I write and also know that there is no rush, that the unfolding will occur - if I surrender to this information from a place that is not of my mind or from any ‘stuff’…
Anadi and I have used it together from time to time to deepen our commitment to clearing and to our soul path.
Today we decided to come here specifically to sit, talk and do some writing together to see what emerged…
We both agreed that when we write together the wisdom that transpires is never a surprise, nor something we didn’t already know, even if it is deep inside. And in recent months it doesn’t tell us anything we are not already doing to some level, even if it requires a ‘next step’….
But it does confirm and strengthen our commitment, and keep us on track…
We are both truthful with one another as right from the beginning we invited the other to say everything, and so the writing and exploring together allows a deepening of our process, and speeds our journey to letting go of everything within us that prevents us being…
I am not surprised that my guided writing always confirms that my learning is in the running path… Of course the insights also confirm my commitment to a moment by moment attention to my inner landscape, so that I never ever kid myself if I have reacted to any single thing… that clearing is needed in every moment, so that we are always present and in the now, enjoying now, living now, being now…
But today my writing suggested that letting go of outcome to a running goal is only possible, if I have a goal with a possible outcome set, to see how attached I am to it…! From this place I can discover what is holding on and to practice letting go
My writing suggested this:
‘But the real area of growth and transcendence is in your running, the way for you to truly release from any attachment to outcome will be to aim for an outcome!
Only within this journey will you see where you are attached and be able to release…
All the time you try not to be attached to an outcome, when there is not an outcome to attach to; you are living in theory land, and therefore you are existing in the mind…
So, set a goal that is achievable, but a destination that you are not quite sure you can reach, one which will take full commitment, full stretch… This is where your growth is…’
“What does achievable mean’ I asked…
‘One that deep in your inner being, you know is there, but your mind rebels…
This is the way to transcendence and to freeing yourself from the mind.
Set a goal and journey there, always letting go…’
The sun is setting now, evening in Ipsos… As I wrote down all I written above, I am aware that my higher self that writes and speaks the truth, but as is often the case I am not ready to set any goals yet…
And the sentence that said the mind rebels is accurate! My mind is rebelling, keeping me from this next place…
I am enjoying living day by day, committed to running each day, some races in the diary… My body opening and healing, more supple and strong than in years…
And so I trust that the goal will emerge of itself; if this is the place of growth for me, then I cannot escape it…
Everything else in my life rests on me ‘doing my own work…’
I always say to those I work with, that the most important process in my working in the lives of others is the commitment to my own inner work… My writing springs from this place too… and all of my relating…
And so if setting a goal is the place of growth for me, then a goal will emerge for sure…
And… It certainly does seem that everyone in Ipsos has seen me running… Every bar or breakfast eatery we come to, someone says to me…
‘I saw you running today…’
And this morning as we ate fruits salad and eggs, having swum in the, still very cold, sea… Our waitress said to Anadi… ‘And why weren’t you running with her this morning…?’
Anadi laughed and started to show her his blister…
She turned away, and laughing too said…
‘Men! You’re always full of excuses…’
‘Not this man’ I said…
