Movement and Stillness - New ideas, new avenues, different foods or cultures, we all experience as we travel on our path in life. We can instantly be quickly drawn toward words or creations that spark a place inside us and just as quickly be completely turned off by another. Our world and communication is moving at a faster rate than ever before. In some instances this is wonderful! We can find people quickly who need assistance, reach more humans with new innovations in health and science. My Great-Grandmother would find it challenging to believe some of the things we accept as commonplace today.

We are becoming accustomed to this pace in some ways, and yet a part of us yearns for stillness, sitting, pausing and relishing the moments. Deep at our cellular core as humans we remember a slower pace of sitting around a fire, using our imaginations with storytelling, listening to Elders who challenged our new young minds with ancient questions. So different from the sound-bite world of quick answers, disposable things and even people. So necessary to have these times for our inner compass. Stillness brings us a relief from the fast pace. Even if we only find 10 minutes in our day to sit quietly and breathe, at our home, by a tree, in a park, in our car or our backyard. Welcoming in the beauty and simplicity of life with breath and quiet is a respite from the storms and chaos around us.

Two Wings

Observe the qualities of expansion and contraction

in the fingers of your hand:

surely after the closing of the fist comes the opening.

If the fingers were always closed or always open,

the owner would be crippled.

Your movement is governed by these two qualities:

they are as necessary to you as two wings are to a bird.

RUMI

Maybe you might wonder how you can find a place of quiet stillness from your movement, so that your

Two Wings can fly in balance in your life!

Blessings,

Bobbe