Does it sometimes feel as though you are walking around the streets wearing a suit of armour, whilst holding on to a shed load of luggage…… none of which is allowing you to move terribly smoothly? Does it sometimes seem as though there is a constant ‘companion‘ in your head, urgently asking “where next, where next, where next?!?!” like some over-wired puppy that can’t sit down, continually suggesting that now is not as interesting as what is next? And does it sometimes feel as though you are so tight with tension that you might actually snap in two, with no possibility of moving smoothly around unexpected corners, or ‘going with the long talked about flow‘, never mind actually feeling anywhere near relaxed?
Well. PAUSE . . . Let us see if together, we can choose again.
Begin here, in this now.
Begin with the obvious, the simple, the overt tensions… and then ‘layer’ by ‘layer’, begin to sift.
Allow the jaw to unclench, the furrowed brow to soften, the hunched up shoulders to release……
Then notice.
Allow the muscles of the scalp to relax, the knot in your belly to undo, the holding of the tongue to come away from the roof of your mouth……
Then notice.
And then keep going, ‘layer‘ by ‘layer‘, sifting away all that is holding you tight, all that is holding you back, all that is holding you stuck.
When we begin to sift away all that is not us, we start to reveal all that IS.
When we begin to sift away all that is not us, all that is asking to be seen comes CLEAR.
So sift.
Sift away the tensions and tightnesses that have you feeling like you are operating with the hand brake on.
Sift away the judgements that mask you from truly seeing all those that you meet, your Self included.
Sift away the past and the future imaginings, that have nothing to do with this Now. Not really.
Sift away all the efforting and pushing, that generate unnecessary friction and distance.
Sift away the edges that hold you back, that hold you away, from living fully, and loving unconditionally.
Sift away all that is not YOU, to reveal all that IS.
Sift away the parts, so that you may rest wholly in to the WHOLE.
Sift away, ‘layer’ by ‘layer’, until you see the truth of the moment, the truth of NOW.
Become more familiar with how all this feels, ‘layer’ by ‘layer’, and then choose……………. On edge and Uptight, or Open and Free……….?? It is always your choice.
Instead of asking for something or someone to complete you, ask instead that all that is shadowing you from truly seeing, be lifted, be sifted away.
And remember. You are not sifting in order to find the pearl . . . You are sifting to SEE the pearl that has been there all along.