Be Here Now
We stepped out into a misty morn, swirling and cold, with an air of fairyland...
'I love the energy here' I commented to Anadi, as we ran up the drive of Buxted Park past the church...
'Isn't it interesting the places we like, the energy that resonates for us...'
Travelling lends itself to sharpening the awareness of subtle changes in energy...
I am sensitive to energy anyway, but shedding possessions and along with that attachments to people, places and things has heightened this within me...
The meaning I make of it - which may not mean anything at all of course! - is that because of my orientation of being alert to anything that disturbs me, any reactivity or wobble, this ongoing commitment to practising what I teach, means that my own energy field is becoming more still... This appears to be allowing a greater awareness, without any reactivity or resistance - to the different energies around me.
And Buxted has an energy all of its own, which I love and recognise.
As we ran up the lane there seemed promise in the air... The dawning of a new day, nature's rhythms enfolding us in her embrace, the morning light bright, the air clean...
A bunny rabbit hopped in front of us, it's little white tail disappearing into the hedgerow...
'Did you see the bunny?' Anadi asked... 'I did' I replied.... We are more used now to snakes and armadillos and lizards - unusual looking cat like creatures - even monkeys have become quite 'normal'; that seeing a little bouncing rabbit was a novelty for us.
We ran mainly in silence, the air was cold, the hedgerows bursting with winter life... I took Anadi on a loop I regularly ran when I lived around here, and we adjusted to the switchback nature of the roads, both of us having become used to the flat urban routes of San Sebastián and Barcelona.
I have just finished working with my clients, and in five minutes I am meeting up with my friend Haze who married recently...
I popped into Anadi's office to say 'hello' to him and initially I couldn't remember anything about this morning as the nature of my work means I am where I am...
There is nothing else to do and nowhere else to be when I am engaged with my clients.
I can remember when I first started to work in this way - over 25 years ago now - I recognised that I could fully relax, and that I could be happy...
Because I noticed that when I worked with a person, I was one hundred percent present, and I was relaxed...
At that time, I wasn't like this always in other areas of my life, and it opened an aperture where I saw the potential for how I could be all the time...
I recognised that if can be present now, then there is nothing but now, so I can be here, now all the time...