Fresh Air
Have you noticed that how we interact with one another has been impacted greatly since Covid’s appearance on our planet? Sometimes tempers are short, and tolerance is curt. Other times, there’s a focused awareness regarding how kind we can be with one another. What energy do we bring to our interactions?
Resting and Open
Fresh morning air, calm and cool. Tranquil as it carries the bird’s call through my open window. Spaciousness, softness, relaxed mind and body. Rest creates greater ease and renewal within the physical systems of being. Rest either by sleep or through meditation as we rest in the silence. Yet rest can also happen in the midst of motion, resting in the letting go of attachment and desire to control what is happening.
The Energy of My Interaction
I have been playing with an awareness lately. Recognizing how my spaciousness (or lack thereof) impacts a moment, especially those moments when I’m interacting with another. When my energy is one of openness/spaciousness which includes the energy of kindness, consideration, understanding and even Love; it is evident in me. It is evident in the way that I come into the interaction. Where I once would have experienced a desire to push my agenda or will forward, where I would have advocated for my way to unfold, I can now play with the spaciousness of open eyes, open heart for a larger frame of consideration.
The Impact of Openness
The person that I am working/talking with seems to sense this ease. Where they once may have become more rigid or closed, even pushing back on the request, I am now sensing a coming forward with a kindness and sense of gratitude for the spaciousness of ease. As I relax into the moment, it somehow is inviting them to relax into it as well. More importantly, it seems to set an air of kindness and consideration as the energy of what is transpiring. There is a mutuality that really wasn’t present in encounters when I was pushing my agenda. I am finding the experience of greater openness delightful as the energy of the situation seems to be drawing us in toward one another, a sense of wanting to stay in the conversation lingers even when the purpose of the connection is complete.
Could this be the Kingdom?
Is this the Kingdom of Heaven? A place where kindness and consideration is the order of the moment? When we begin to want to work with each other and resource what is possible to find a solution? I wonder if tension in this world has made the contrast between patience and impatience so energetically obvious that when one encounters kindness today it is sweet energy that one wants to stay in.
Questions for Energetic Awareness
What am I bringing into a situation?
What energy is in me?
Am I constricted, worried, pushing and trying to achieve a particular outcome?
Am I coming together with another with an awareness of a larger picture, aware that this human being may, or may not, be able to fulfill my request?
Whatever the outcome, can I understand and accept it, even support and relax into what is, or isn’t, able to take place?
Can I be like the open window that allows the bird’s song to come into the moment?
Can I enjoy what is unfolding in the midst of what is happening and marvel as it unfolds?
Can I share softness, openness, kindness, consideration, caring for another, while still seeking what is possible and needed for me?
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