How slowed-down can one get and still get going? Well, the answer arrived last Thursday.
Somewhere between moving the water and starting breakfast, I made a fateful decision to wipe down one tiny shelf inside my refrigerator door (that smudge had been poking at me for weeks).
Finally, I had a moment.
I grabbed the new bottle of all purpose cleaner and sprayed/swiped with the sweeping grace of a Bolshoi ballerina.
When in a flash, that full bottle, mindlessly placed on the counter, slid off and landed bottom first on an unsuspecting toe.
Crack … OOWWwwwwwwaaaHHHHHH!
Please don’t let this be a break.
That’s exactly what it was, a broken ring-toe.
Why NOW? I fly to Siem Reap, Cambodia for the Global Crystal Bowl Symposium 3 in a week!
So much to prepare for with one foot in a boot! Visas, international flight protocols and procedures, packing and now a wheelchair.
Holy MAMA how am I going to do this?
Insight has many worthy tributaries, still the obvious learning is, well…obvious…Slow down! Pay attention! At times I’m prone to thinking I’m better at some things than I really am.
Maybe I should ask a better question if I want a better answer. What lies beyond attention?
Something rearranges in my nervous system.
Wait, I see it! Slowing down is no longer an action, it’s an experience which allows me to listen differently.
Hearing an insight come online within me is an (OMG) exhilarating sensory experience. Remarkable really! Coming home to all my senses in order to experience me being me is the point of living this life. Ah, yes!
So here I am drifting along, hobbling humbly with one foot in a boot and paying attention ONLY to what is in front of me.
Preparing for Cambodia demands I change my octave here. Clearly a wheelchair is a new wrinkle in my plans.
That said, I will use this ‘injury’ to refine how I experience Cambodia…with an unreserved heart, softer eyes and lighter touch.
Slow enough to sense the sound of ancient voices echoing within the temple walls of Angkor Wat; to savour the sacred within the roots of Ta Prohm Temple.
The most exciting gift will be feeling this new energy moving through me as I give myself over to this new Life.
My Presentation for the Global Crystal Bowl Symposium 3 Cambodia will be an opportunity to ‘savour the sacred’ in crystal sound.
I have to laugh because the title of my talk “Evolving the Harmonic Body: A New Paradigm of Healing with Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls” exposes the very thing I am Re-membering due to my current physical situation.
Of course, I’m right on track!
If I don’t see you in Cambodia, I’ll be posting on FB and Instagram so you can join me along this amazing journey.
Having a Love Affair with the Journey… Tryshe
“What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been…”
PS: Rest in a Sphere of peace, Phil Lesh
