A Little Reminder To Be

By Samantha Mardell

A key to life is freshness of being. Perpetual rejuvenation of our experiences, or the altering of our perception keeps us fresh.

There is not much to be gained from judging one experience against another (they are all of value), but I am irresistibly drawn to experiment!

I need to keep the energy flowing – to pull myself out of The Comfort Zone.

Actually, The Comfort Zone is a Fear Zone. Fear holds humans so easily in the same place - fear of the unknown, of the untried, of the moment that has not happened (and ironically will never happen in the way that I anticipate).

It is so easy to worry about consequences and forget to just act in this moment, which in reality is safe and painless.
 

 

It’s pointless to judge my feelings, my very being, or others. I need to let it all flow and abandon the search for bewildering explanations.

Emotions are the ripples of energy interchange. I soak up the energies of others around me, judge and filter them, and pass them onwards. They are often inexplicable and easily moved through.

Relax, I tell myself. We are creatures of electricity and water. This is how we are designed. There is nothing wrong with me; I just need to keep moving. To drink lots of water, exercise and focus on the breath.

I need to respect others and to respect myself. To move with grace - project this and it comes back as a gift, often. Let it become first nature – then my perspective on life changes naturally.  I experience the sublime. I am no longer fragile and separate, but powerful and at one. This is reality.

What is pain? Fear of loss and separation. A forgetting of my strength to cope, survive and expand. Each one of us is enormous in potential… but I still doubt that.

I forget, and am surprised when I glide into achievement - when I flow freely and enjoy. When I flow within myself, when I trust and remember, I ‘am’ my true self, not separate from others but part of an infinite network.

When we move, the air around us moves. It ripples onto the next person’s experience and on to another. Often I am unaware of this goodness interchange, but when I send or receive ripples of aggression, I am fully aware.

Our focus on seemingly negative patterns of behaviour, and feeling, become huge and unfathomable. I panic and scream. Emotions crash and sway, rush and subside. However, caught inside them I believe them to be endless, and therefore trap myself in stuck-ness and depression, anger and fear.

 

The Comfort Zone

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Page 9     Waking-Up Magazine Issue 1      September-December 2000