Let Freedom Ring
This holiday weekend is all about celebrating our Nation's freedom. It occurs to me that of late I have not been exercising my greatest freedom.....choice.
I choose how I respond to those experiences, people and situations around me.
Tucker is mysteriously lame, the rain is frequent, the mud in the pasture is thick, the neighbors are constantly setting off fireworks, the dog is terrified, the vet will be expensive...I could go on, but the situations are really irrelevant. I've been focused on the negative and worry, I've been argumentative with my husband and frustrated by all the outside influences.
I've given up my freedom of choice. Instead of choosing my responses and choosing my outlooks and choosing my attitude I have let the emotion dictate my actions, words and moods. I have not been unflappable which is a trait I desire to achieve regardless of my circumstance. One of the greatest definitions of enlightenment I have heard is being in the water but not being wet. I want to entrench myself in theses moments I want to wade in the situations around me, but I don't want to be wet, I don't want to get flapped.
It occurs to me I have rolled up my stillness, presence of mind, tolerance and acceptance up into my yoga mat. They are there waiting for me to unroll them, spend some time with them, practice them.
So today I choose to be more patient, to unroll the mat, to walk away with a different attachment to the outcomes.
Today I will choose...today I will practice freedom.
I choose how I respond to those experiences, people and situations around me.
Tucker is mysteriously lame, the rain is frequent, the mud in the pasture is thick, the neighbors are constantly setting off fireworks, the dog is terrified, the vet will be expensive...I could go on, but the situations are really irrelevant. I've been focused on the negative and worry, I've been argumentative with my husband and frustrated by all the outside influences.
I've given up my freedom of choice. Instead of choosing my responses and choosing my outlooks and choosing my attitude I have let the emotion dictate my actions, words and moods. I have not been unflappable which is a trait I desire to achieve regardless of my circumstance. One of the greatest definitions of enlightenment I have heard is being in the water but not being wet. I want to entrench myself in theses moments I want to wade in the situations around me, but I don't want to be wet, I don't want to get flapped.
It occurs to me I have rolled up my stillness, presence of mind, tolerance and acceptance up into my yoga mat. They are there waiting for me to unroll them, spend some time with them, practice them.
So today I choose to be more patient, to unroll the mat, to walk away with a different attachment to the outcomes.
Today I will choose...today I will practice freedom.