In a Silent Way

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allowing, breathing, falling, health and well being, listening, listening to the body, meditation, Movement, movement meditation, Running, scanning, silence, whispers of health

In a silent way, I run. Quiet is the mind listening to the blood course through the highway of my veins. Breath beating freely within my lungs keeping time with my feet. Scanning my body to release tension while falling in freedom. This mysterious floating with the energy of the forest carries me more deeply into the meditation of this path.

A Meander in Peace

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alone, anonymous, becoming, Believing, discovery, inspiration, introvert, journey, Paris, peace, quiet, silence, spirit, walk

When I wander the streets of a foreign country I always feel at peace. This is mostly due to the anonymity of being in a place where you don’t speak their language and they don’t, for the most part, speak yours. I love to meander the streets and listen. I know not what they are saying, or pick up fragments, but non of it really matters. I am there to experience and to absorb. I watch for all intense and purposes and simply become a fly on a wall of international happenings. 

I love this because I am able to wander and become lost in a culture that just assumes I am one of them and then I am allowed to just be. Even if people approach me and start speaking to me, I am always quickly left alone when I share that I do not know their language. Or, if I do understand, I swiftly acknowledge them and answer their question. This happened at the train station here in Paris and some Americans asked me if they were on the correct train in French and I answered them without acknowledging I knew what they were saying after they stood in line behind me. 

Such a pleasure in given space to walk in a land where you observe and become part of the culture simply by existing in it. The joy of getting lost in a foreign land and permitted to simply just be and do. How glorious a luxury is that for an introvert. Walking through your day without the bother of a question or pull of conversation. The joy of anonymity and space. The joy of travel.

Now is the Moment

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Ballet, contemporary dance, courage, Creativity, Dance, enchanted life, happiness, letting go, letting go of noise, Magic, Modern, Moment, Now, peace, progress, releasing progress, silence, Soul to Soul, time and space, vertigo of progress, Wonder

Now is the moment. Right here, right now. We must let the past and the future melt away so that we can simply concentrate on where we are and whom we are with in this particular instance of time and space. It is here, in the sliver of time, all love is understood and creativity speaks. It is here that happiness and peace reside causing sorrow and suffering to dissolve.

 

Yet, we are face down in our phones. Preoccupied with having to prove we exist by our mere status updates and moment-to-moment monuments for ourselves. When is it that we became so important to the rest of the world and so meaningless to our spirits and ourselves? When did we lose connection to other human beings rather than media and machines?

 

We are simply human. We are magical beings that need space to live in the enchanted world that surrounds us. It is time to lift our heads to face the lives that are spinning out of control. It is time to rid the vertigo of progress from our manufactured worlds and realize the true momentum in our soul is proportionate to the energy we give being present in each moment of our existence.

Adventures inTravel

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faith, joy, meditation, peace, silence, spirit, travel

As I sit here quietly awaiting my first leg of my European Adventure 2013, I am reminded why I love this thing called travel and that there truly is an art to it if you allow the experience of traveling carry you.

Right now I have been sitting here in silence carving out words as I have written in several notebooks. During this time I have “settled” into the space of simplicity and peace. Calm, I wait and am grateful for the forced space rather than choosing to focus on the fear of not knowing or being consumed by others manufactured stress.

I realize I love the space that travel affords me to simplify, quiet my thoughts, and observe everything anew again. Truly it is not often that our lives allow us to sit for hours on end during our current 24/7 365 lives.

So I say embrace the time our journey has given us. Soak in the solitude and let peace wash over you regardless of what “reality” is throwing us. I guarantee we will all get to where we are going or need to be. After all, we have no wings ourselves nor control of weather, machines, or others.

I am choosing to allow. I am choosing to let this journey bring what I need and to be grateful for whatever that may be. I choose to be congruent with the way and let the energy of that void carry me safely and beautifully throughout this experience.