The World is Safe And Friendly...
For two nights running Anadi, Kathy and I have been the last to leave the restaurant!
On Thursday evening, we had moved indoors at Teide to have coffee... After awhile we looked up and realised 'sweeping up' was happening around us... As we walked out into the warm air, we noticed that it was midnight...
Yesterday evening we drove through Capileira to a restaurant at the top of the village with spectacular views of the mountains... Once again, after a delicious meal we glanced up from our laughter, and our three little honey run liqueurs, and noticed that there was not another soul in the restaurant... It was midnight again...
This morning Anadi and I were up early to drive to Portugos so that we could leave the car, ready for our pilgrimage to lunch there tomorrow... We ran back along the mountain path before the sun had climbed over the mountains... I realise I am totally acclimatised to a life in the sunshine... It felt quite chilly without its warmth on the path...!
Once we had completed the extremely steep 4k that is the start of the journey home, Anadi and I began to chat... Were able to chat! 'It's three days now' I announced 'three days without a little white tablet' (antihistamine tablets for my mountain 'hay fever')
I have been 'weaning' myself off them over the past couple of weeks, and the week before I stopped completely, I was down to a quarter of a tablet a day...
I have been 'eating' bee pollen everyday too, as part of my 'cure'...
'Its been a transformational time here...' I continued 'Yes' Anadi agreed 'A deeper letting go has occurred hasn't it?'
I have just checked again in the emotional meaning associated with hay fever, and I found instead a mantra which is said to help the process...
'The world is safe and friendly. I am safe. I am at peace with life...'
Reflecting on this past year as a nomad... We have almost reached anniversary of the day we headed out with just a bag of clothes and running shoes... and another bag with computer and iPad... I can see that I have a greater sense of freedom than ever before, and a greater sense of safety and trust in life, and in myself...
Anadi and I continued to look back over the last year, and in particular this year... We saw the new year in from Thailand and we have spent time since then in the Caribbean, Greece, Corfu, England and now these magical mountains of Andalucia... Time seems timeless, our lifestyle lends itself to being here, now and it is difficult to really look back or plan much ahead... Even though there is a plan!
This is especially so given the nature of the work I do with people...
It requires me to be nowhere but in the now...
Kathy commented today as we sat under a tree, with the sun filtering through and the light dancing on our skin, that she hasn't wanted to look at the news since she has been here...
'I have no idea what is going on in the outside world' she laughed...
There is no outside world really and truly, everything is within us. We know who we are and we know what we want in the core of our being..
We also know all we need to know... Everything outside us, is a distraction from this, keeping us from the real journey which takes us deeper within, to where a more beautiful reality could be reflected in the outer realms than we often see today....
We are responsible for anything and everything in the outer world. If we do not like what we see, then we must go within and clear the distress from inside ourselves, so that the reflection becomes something we do like!
