Sometimes we are nudging ourselves awake without even realising it.
We pop little clues in to the thread of words that trip out of our mouths, and we tap ourselves on the shoulder (over and over), as we roll around the same showers of thinking…… Sometimes (maybe), we catch an itch of awareness, an itch of awareness that these little nudges are in fact our own, very loving, very kindly reminders, that at some moment we sat down and half-closed our eyes in a well trodden groove, we got ourselves embedded in to a deep rut, we settled in to a habit no less, and then we forgot to get up and move on.
If we would only pause — PAUSE for one moment — then we may just hear these beautiful little wise nudges . . . we may just hear, and then CHOOSE to REFRESH our choices.
At times … many times … most of the time, we fall asleep to the Newness of Now. We FORGET the awe-inspiring, ever bubbling newness of the ALL. We forget to SEE, to LOOK, to bring our NEW eyes, to bring our FULL awareness, and instead, instead we plod plod plod on though. We find ourselves doing the same thing in the same way, over and over, with no conscious awareness that we are virtually sleepwalking. We find ourselves repeating the same pattern, the same habit, again and again, even though we remember that last time it took us to a very familiar stagnant dead-end. And we hear ourselves speaking the same dulled down words — “flat, lacklustre, stale, stagnant . . . maybe sluggish, lethargic, heavy or down“, without the recognition of the WISDOM contained within and beyond these loving little nudges.
So begin to pay attention, to notice, MORE.
HEAR your own, kind, loving nudges, and allow them to nudge you awake, over and over … for you will (more then likely) fall in to slumber once again.
The nudge reminds us to REFRESH. The nudge reminds us to refresh and see anew ALL of the choices. Just like shaking the dust out of the linen. Just like clearing away the well-established corners of cobwebs. Just like pressing the refresh button on your computer (alas the reboot button at times) . . . . . . . . . . As you are nudged to refresh, you are given the opportunity to clear the ‘history’ and look ANEW, to encounter anew what is before you in THIS very now.
Hear the words you are speaking, the threads you are thinking, and allow them to NUDGE you awake to THE NOW. Such that you may choose again, such that you may choose differently, and such that you may recognise that this same pattern, this same habit, this same thought, these same words, are no longer supporting you.
Let each nudge REMIND you to look again, to look anew . . . to listen beyond your habitual hardened choices, as you REFRESH in this newly nudged awake moment.
You will be stubborn at times (O you will), and you will really really not want to hear the nudge, let alone listen beyond. You won’t want, or allow the nudges to nudge you back in to alignment, the nudges to wake you up out of the sleepwalk … and so, you’ll park the nudge for another moment …… until, until at some moment you DO choose to HEAR and LISTEN beyond … At some moment you do CHOOSE to hear the nudge, and come back to seeing and Being in the ever newly refreshed NOW.
So hear your wise loving nudges, and then allow yourself to REFRESH and encounter what is before you as if for the very very first time.