Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Being With What is, Without Condition

These past few weeks I have been being more than ever before. Doing no longer makes sense to me. Being does not make sense to my thinking mind, and that is OK, I let my mind have its say and return to the heart of being. I am getting comfortable with being uncomfortable if that is what appears in a given moment. This feeling is relatively new, and I am welcoming all feeling without condition. It feels like such freedom to do so. When I am in the present moment I feel enlivened. When I try to describe what that is to me, the words do not come, I am content to feel enlivened. It does not matter the feeling, whether it is a previously described negative or positive feeling, when I am feeling it in the moment, without condition, there is nothing else.
If you are reading this now, I invite you to be with whatever arises for you as you read this. If a story arises, let the story be there, notice it, and feel the feelings that are surrounding the story. and breathe. Now let the story fade and stay with the feeling, what ever it is, however it appears, and just stay with it as long as you can, without condition. Drop the feelings into your heart, give them breath and be with them. Always come back to the feeling. There is nothing to do, be with the feelings.
I am currently in an uncomfortable feeling place. I am coming face to face with people who are reflecting places in me that feel like shit. I recognize these feelings, these reflections as exactly what I need to integrate a part of myself. They are the medicine I require at precisely the right moment. It is not about the people or situation, it is about the feelings that arise when I am faced with these situations. It is another example of how we are given exactly what we need in the context of our everyday life.
I am so grateful for the feelings, for the situations and people that trigger places in me that are ready to heal. And I welcome the opportunity to feel everything as it appears in the moment.

Follow up to the above post: After I sat with the uncomfortableness I became involved in something at work. This took me into several conversations with people, all the while I was in that present moment, not aware of any uncomfortable feeling. Later as I went back to my office and picked up a piece of work I had been working on before getting called into the conversations, i noticed that my comfort level has shifted. This is the alchemy that happens when we are with what ever appears in the present moment without condition. We do not try to make the feelings go away, we let them be as they are, with out a story. This is all that is needed for alchemy to occur.

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