So I have been a whiner lately. My apologies to my esteemed audience. Reach a certain age and every joint in the body hurts upon waking and the maintenance required to keep the body at least somewhat mobile is exhausting. So I'm behind today and this post of gratitude will need extend into the next...
Despite the whining (and that itself is exhausting) I did manage to actually quell the monkey mind and meditate today creating a great capacity to be balance and be strong actually. Despite the pain in many joints and the underlying fear that my bones aren't strong enough (and could literally crack if I exercise) I sat
with myself and settled enough to notice the fear and notice the pain and yet not be that. I have Joseph Goldstein and Insight Mediation to thank for this. If we realize life is pain and impermanent it can cause a valuing of the present moment. As Kabat-Zinn says, "breath is never in the past or in the future but in the present moment." This can support the ability to step outside the pain and attachment to future health and wellness and just be with the depth of possibility in the present. It slows you and then you meet the pain as neither good or bad. This is balancing leading to a greater noticing of harmony and balance and seeking that.
Even if the path we take leads us into discomfort, danger, or pain like the flooded railroad track on my morning walk.
Much gratitude for the moments of presence.
And you?
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