One avian behaviour is to look far into the distance, by perching at the highest point in the garden. This intentional habit in the mornings before they fly to different flight stations is a regular practice in the morning!
Some birds do the same in the evening too, to choose the shelter for the night!
It is on seeing this a few years ago, I too started to set apart time in the morning to travel into the day and in the evening to wind down for the day!
What are we to look forward to as we begin the day! There are the expected or planned events. It is a good practice to have a detailed rehearsal of the different events of the day. In so doing, it is good to remember the places one shall visit, the people one might meet and the topics of conversations. If a travel is involved, think of the travel itself. Such an anticipation makes one familiar with the events of the day and enhance our readiness.
Each event needs a prelude and postlude. The prelude is to prepare for the event and postlude is for personal debriefing.
This helps us to have an inner readiness to enter into an event or conversation, at the end of which the postlude offers a transition time to prepare for the next event.
A day is not therefore a flow of events or activities, but a well structure and monitored experience. To be present to experience the inner movements that take place during an involvement is a good practice to move to live at the plane of exploring the meaning of each occasion.
Every day, when lived with such a close monitoring of the flow of events, we can protect ourselves from the weariness of involvements. Instead each event can add a refreshing touch to the day. It is when we feel the meaning of each event there is an inner resonance of clarity, affirmation or encouragement.
At the end of the day during a debriefing time, one takes time to classify events into three categories- pleasant experiences, unpleasant experiences and events which need revisiting! It is when we audit the events under the three categories, one is able to converge on the meaning and integrate them to our growth experience. Thos of us who write a daily or weekly journal would find such an exercise valuable to make connection with our inner thoughts, aspirations and change process.
Each of us is growing and changing each day! How much we know of this process taking place within our soul! To be inwardly alive and grow in awareness, we need to be learning from our thought world and insights.
We had to make two detours yesterday on driving back home after shopping at night when the road was dark and it was raining heavily. These are roads that I have been used to for years. On one occasion Anna had to get the help of the google map. It reminded me of the risk of loosing the sense of direction at cross roads and bifurcations of the road.
The same risk in a physical journey applies to the inner journey. It is only by navigating our inner life, we keep on the forward path!
Looking inward and forward is what makes looking beyond possible!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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