The 'Shore Method'...
Today Anadi and I ran ten miles together around our now familiar 'out of the a City and down to the sea route...'
His calf and heel have been hurting a bit, so he has been wearing my compress sports calf socks, to very good effect...
As we reached the turn around point, on this beautiful and bright sunny day... (It must be said rather chilly, bright, sunny day!) We stopped and leant on the rail looking out over the beach...
We watched the usual few swimming costumed bods... They were making their way to the sea, and diving into the waves sin wet suits!
I do like the idea of daily swimming year round in the sea, whatever the temperature, but in truth, it is only the idea like!
It has to have a strong resonance in my soul for me to action ideas...
I have always been unable to continue a course of action if it doesn't feel right in my soul...
And had to stop however challenging this has been, even if it has been against conventional ideas or beliefs! or even the desires of others...
And in the same way if an idea does resonate, however hard it has been to follow through, it is the same in reverse... Even if it goes against conventional wisdom, I can't stop if my soul whispers to me to keep going...!
As we ran I became aware that my shoes were on their last run! I could feel too much road and knew their running days were done, and then a mile of so on, I felt a slight tightening in my left calf...
'When we reach the top of the steps, could I wear one of the compress sports' I asked Anadi, 'let's do it now', he said....
So we stopped where we were; he took off one calf sock and I put it on.
I felt instant relief... Why was I even going to wait another half a mile...?
My body had spoken to me, and I listened, but I was asking it to wait, when I had the solution right beside me.
Curious, and as always worth noticing our patterns and habits, particularly if they don't fully support us...
I have a pattern and habit of thinking 'it will be okay', and of course, often things are okay, which supports my thinking!
But if we seek to challenge patterns and habits and change them and shift them, we will stay more conscious in the moment and make new patterns, new pictures, new possibilities can then open up...
On this run there are loos en route, which I have paid a visit to each time...
Today I went I to a different cubicle... I was aware that already a pathway to the same one had been set!
There are of course no rules, we can choose to do what we want to. If we like to sit on the same seat on the train, or corner in a coffee shop, or same loo seat, of course we can! Familiar seats can feel reassuring and part of the fabric of our daily life...
But staying conscious and aware keeps us alive and living each moment with the newness that it is... Now, new, never before, never again.
Now is new, and now is something we don't know, it's new, again and again...
I like to play with the now, and know that I don't know it, even if it looks familiar to the now that has just been...
Later...
I did my first 'Shore method' training session...
In Anadi's and my bedroom!
I loved it...
Already I can feel the opening it will afford my body and soul...
