As a young man, during my work day when things were uncomfortable, I often found another place to put my attention. For example, in the hot sun, up on a roof, sweating and tired………or in cold wind digging in unforgiving soil, I developed a habit of drifting mentally away from my body and into a scene where and when my body could relax.
Five o’clock and a beer. Making love. Coming in the house and flopping on the couch. Finding ANY scene other than the one I was in seemed to get me through the tough times.
I know now I am the ability to become more of my thought than my physical being. The hot or cold, sweat or shivering are disappearable into thinking. These body-minds are made that way. We can and often do forget where we are and choose to trade off realities.
As I’ve aged I’ve learned there’s a hook hidden in those moments of leaving the body’s current effort and moving mentally and emotionally elsewhere. Am I really listening to my spouse, my child, my self?
Looking beyond reality means desiring more reality. Drifting mentally can easily root in denying THIS as wonderful, loving, generous life. Most of us have chosen instead to wander mentally into more food, money, power, approval, different circumstance. Images respond to our awareness, inviting us to nibble or take a big bite. And the instant we do, we have made a choice to deny our power in this moment’s reality. Abdicating power now to use power in an imagined scene can easily be seen as mistaking now as lacking love.
When we feel the physical and emotional connection to what seems to be more, are we denying the presence of enough, now, here.
This mysteriously wonderful life is giving itself in any form we choose. This choosing morphs instantly from mental to physical to emotional—-all 3 weaving simulatneously. We are alive, we are here to see all three co-happening, and accepting them, choose by emphasis. Are we becoming the choice to emphasize more of physical, mental, or emotional? Are we maintaining a balance?
Our nature, which is perfect, holds the place of observing/being/choosing all three currents, physical, emotional, mental unfolding as life, gratefully.
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This post was previously published on THEFATHERCONNECTION.WORDPRESS.COM.
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