Change

It seems that, as a culture, many people are most comfortable with the illusion that we are not living in an ever-changing and evolving system of energy that is in constant motion. Oftentimes, people like to believe that there is some type of ‘routine’ that they are most ‘comfortable with’…people have their daily-minders, their clocks strapped to their bodies, their schedules, their plans. Not that any of this is bad or wrong…..it’s just an illusion. To participate in this illusion while knowing full well that it is all part of a play that we are co-creating is one way of living “in the world but not of it”…..yet, oftentimes, people participate in this type of belief system and live as though it is really real. This behavior can place a gap between people and their actual experience of living their lives. It can create the experience of watching one’s life, rather than feeling the moment-by-moment pulsing that occurs as the experience of our life force in the now.

Even the act of pausing, resting or stopping is an illusion for, in reality, there is not such a thing. Perpetual motion is all that exists. Constant change is the minute biochemical reality that we swim in as energy systems.

The in breath. The out breath. The eye blinking. The blood flowing. The heart beating. The cells moving within the body. The wind moving your hair, the sun warming your face, the Earth supporting your body- even now as you read this.

In one’s life, these actions and ongoing changes are constant even as we sit still, even as we run quickly, even as we nurse a baby, even as we sleep, even as we meditate. Constant energy in motion is what is…..always, in all ways. The interaction and interplaying of energy is happening always. Energy systems flow and blend around and within one another at all times…..while you sleep within the energy of your surroundings, in the line at the grocery store with the person standing next to you, driving down the road next to the car beside you…..the music that is playing, the show on the television, the neighbors, the animals that you are near, the trees and plants that you pass by. There is a constant interactive change that occurs with everything around you weather you are aware of it or not, weather you appreciate it or not.

Throughout my life I have co-created times when my experience of the constancy of change has been pronounced….when my awareness of each precious second was heightened. Some of these times include giving birth to my daughter, sitting on the mountain during a Vision Quest Ceremony, hiking out of the Grand Canyon, pouring a SweatLodge Ceremony, gazing into the eyes of a loved one, while dancing, while fasting for a prolonged time.

Most recently I am remembering to be present with and experience each now-moment in each now-moment…..not wait until I have a “special time” set aside to do so. Now is the most important moment of my life and now, and now, and now. All that truly exists is change and when I am able to flow with this type of awareness into each moment, I experience this change and am awed by it.

The yellow and orange fire of the sunrise impacts the system of the human watching it in ways we know not about- yet, it is so. A dance of life with life. The unity and oneness has been here all along- for eternity. If you listen, you will hear each of your cells vibrate in unison with the majesty of the sun rising from behind the mountain. Each moment is a glorious opportunity to experience ecstasy on earth- the ecstasy of life, of being alive, of remembering: all that was, all that is, and all that will ever be- in this Now-moment. Stay awake- and don’t let yourself miss it.