When I watched this Bulbul in the garden perched in the flight station, I noticed three body postures that made me wonder, whether birds have also a routine they practice during the 'alone times'.
I wonder if they have three exercises they follow during the alone time!
The first photo is probably a resting posture, which often needs in between flights. It is during that time a bird might groom the body and attend to anything that might make it more flight ready.
The second photograph seems to indicate an occupied or absorbed state, which we often refer to as reflection time which we take during the in between times of work. For birds, such times are occasions of becoming present by withdrawing from the activities around and waiting for the next move.
The last three photographs show how the Bulbul was turning in different directions as a planning process for the next flight.
The three active stages of a Bulbul in the above series of photos suggest how the alone time consists of resting, waiting and planning !
The alone times are personal times to become intimate with oneself! Amidst the setting of the multi-sensory stimuli with which we are associated with at a work setting, a relative closure of such intense activity might be needed two or three times in a day for about five minutes to find the alone time to become present to oneself.
I first heard about this from a senior friend whom I noticed during the few days we spent together in a conference, staying quiet by himself for five to seven minutes three times in a day. He being a surgeon was in the habit of finding this time for himself to return to a level of wellness and composure from the intensity of attention and vigilance he needed for an earlier operation. It was he who suggested that short in between times for resting, waiting or reflecting and planning would be a good way to have an interior state of comfort and composure.
It is a practice that gradually became part of the way my day evolves although with interruptions due to being carried away by the flow of events.
The way we are outside is the reflection of how we are inside! The spirituality of living is living our true self inside and outside.
I listened to an intensely contested argument about who was responsible for the breakdown of a queue. While the arguments went on, one gentleman confessed that each of us is in hurry to finish our work and return. May be someone was in a need to go back early. Let us be considerate to each other rather than accuse or hurt each other. I was most moved by this state of composure and peace that he bought in at that time.
Later, he told me that he was quiet to find a way to lessen the tension in the conversations! When he intervened, there was a level of ease and comfort!
He practiced the art of living from inward !
Living outwardly from the being that we are inwardly!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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