~ Mmm, Tasty Little Nuggets

When making a conscious shift in life, meditation creates a connection to one's internal, wise teacher. Intuition is a neon signpost pointing you in the right direction.

THE FLIP SIDE

It seems as though in our society we're into the rush of the quick fix. In my reality that state-of-mind creates horizontal, emotional stagnation. Trying to move away from the discomfort is only placing a band-aid on the present challenge.

The other day in my tai chi class one of my amazing students mentioned how she was feeling frustrated when she forgot a movement when practicing at home. I know this feeling intimately from my early journey in Tai Chi Land when I was in my twenties. After many years, (yes, I wrote years... I was a slow learner) I had what Alan Watts penned as an "AH HA Moment" when I finally understood that my judgements and attached, negative "glommers"* were creating energy blocks. Those emotional traffic jams were also jamming my mind. And I felt frustrated.

I asked my student to think about what the opposite word or feeling was for ~ frustration. I assured her she didn't have to come up with her answer at that moment. But she responded that "contentment" was the word.

I requested she take a few minutes each day and think about what contentment truly means; then progress to how it makes her feel. Eventually whenever she begins to feel frustrated she'll travel through the "FLIP SIDE" to contentment. I assured her that her tai chi will unfold effortlessly and she'll also discover a quiet, sense-of-ease with everything she does.

And as MOM says "Try it... you may like it."

*Glommers is how I describe what happens to our souls as we grow-up on Planet Earth. As children we often accept negative descriptions and/or actions from others and adopt them as our own truths. These "glommers" are like sticky scales that attach one by one onto our psyche. (When in this state we look as if we're related to armadillos.)

Through daily practices like: yoga, tai chi, mindfulness, moving, sitting and laughing meditation we can begin to release each glommer... the gift is the incredible lightness of being and BE-IN one with yourself.