How Shall We Re-Mold Our Lives?
Softly, softly, patiently, one committed choice at a time. Our bluscreen world will weave around us.
How does a potter work? How are fine clays molded? With water. And in a fire year, this becomes even more important.
When we practice staying in the flow of committed choice, urgent momentary choices become more fluid.
Tomorrow holds the download of gathering three of Preparing The Way. I am excited for its unveiling. This morning, I was able to move through the chi gung squat twist. Three times, because everything on this world begins with 3-6-9. My stance will lower and strengthen with practice, but this is/wwas a new beginning. I am grateful. So grateful that my body is able to express love in this way.
There are movements in yoga and the chi forms that ground light into the spinal column. Seated spinal twist is one. The movement I practiced this morning is another. That my body was up for it was a gift. Slow and fluid is the key. Moving in a known but different way. You will recognize yourself in these new flows as they strengthen.
In a dream, I remembered learning a new Tai Chi form {many years ago of course} that involved a lotus kick. The active foot whips around in a circle and is ‘caught’ before dropping into stance, by the active hand. My instructor was teaching the move to the intermediate class and asking that we try. My foot listened, spun around, smacked my hand, and lowered ‘perfectly’ on the first go. The instructor laughed at the dismayed expressions of the rest of the class. She said, “Well, Mary’s body obviously understands, and she has control of that foot.” Then she grinned at me. “Now do it in slow motion.” Oh dear. That takes…OMG, my body knew, but my mind rebelled, and I fell over about a third of the way through the circle, laughing. $hite.
“See?” the instructor said. “Yes,” I replied. And I did. Never more so than this morning.
My legs are muscle-heavy. Always have been. I rode horses and ran as a child, long before I met martial arts in this life. So my mind has held onto a tendency to think that moving “all that” slowly is going to be difficult. Funny, when it is not the mind that needs to make the effort. It is the chi flow that must be aligned with and surrendered to. When I began training in this life, I watched a video of a Chi Gung Master who seemed to move without effort. I knew I wanted to flow like that. I knew that this kind of vibrational alignment and mastery was possible. Little did I know how much release it might take to achieve it.
Time to let Source be the do-er in the physical and let go of ideas in the mind. Wholeness is something we are. How we express it is up to our clear, committed choice.
Every area of life is shifting under this microscope. Even unto our neuromuscular alignment. How wonderful!
Knowing this intellectually is only a beginning. Embodiment is now fully on the menu.
I am so very grateful!
