Eagle Reminds... Stay Grounded Even When Soaring High
Thanasis and Kostas, from Kassiopi, have just walked into the reception area of our hotel where we are working! They are two of the organisers of the Kassios Dias trail race which we ran two weeks ago; we have recovered in time to run this one!
A thousand people are arriving in Metsovo for the races and the town has been filling up all day, so meeting Thanasis and Kostas with such ease felt very natural, but was actually very 'lucky', if there is such a thing!
We are all staying in the same hotel...
We have been sitting together drinking coffee and chatting. They have been describing the course to us... Downhill for 2k, followed by an uphill for 6k and then paths and trails until a steep downhill for the last 2 or 3k.
We saw some of it this morning when we headed off following the read arrows and red dots... Up the steep hill which we will finish down tomorrow. The views were spectacular and the trees whispered to us as we strode up the grassy slopes. Some of the peaks had streaks and splashes of snow still left on them; everywhere we looked there were mountains standing certain and magnificent in a circle around us....
As we passed through a trail of dappled woodland we emerged to an open space and above us a golden eagle swooped across the sky, its wingspan awesome. We stood and watched it glide smoothly by, and then one beat of her strong wings and the huge bird rose above the highest tree tops and was gone from sight...
On our return I looked up the message from Eagle, which was this...
'Eagle is reminding you to stay grounded even when you are soaring high'
'It’s time to listen to and heed your spiritual directives as well as your heart and to allow them both to lead the way for you at this time. When you can find yourself in this state of flight then all the doors will open and the directions you need to follow will be made clear. Like a beacon – your heart will follow the light'.
Anadi and I were exploring over lunch of delicious bean soup, fresh bread and cheese from Metsovo, from whence our spiritual directives come...!
The term spiritual has come to mean so many different things and so we essentially concluded that heeding our spiritual directives means to continue as we are.
If spiritual, in essence, means non physical, for Anadi and I this means that we are consciousness expressing itself in physical form...
And so the clearer we are the easier path unfolds in front of us...
Being clear for me means catching any reactivity as it happens; when we react it inevitably blocks the flow of clear energy! The moment that happens there is a feeling in the body which sparks the old brain into 'flight or fight ' mode, even if only to a minimal degree...
When this happens we are right back in our scripts, our patterns and many of our old loops. This means the direction we then take would be more likely to come from mind than our true spiritual directive....
If we are absolutely in the present, not being influenced by our past, it follows that our heart has a clear intention and is open to give and receive love now, with no expectation or agenda based on any old stories or hurts from the past.
As we sat in the sunny square watching the 'expo' that was taking place on the grass - stands selling trail shoes and kit for the mountains - I recognised Hercules, a top Greek runner, who we met in Kassiopi last year...
He came over to talk to us and he said that this race, Kassios Dias and another race in July are a triad and that the organisers help one another with all all the races and run them too....
'We are all friends' he said ... 'We are all one family...'