Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Over the hill and far away...
Albatross
Busy day today? It's easy to get caught up in the activities of the day, the meetings, reports to write, children to wash, clothe and feed, home to clean, do the shopping et al. When the head is down and we're focused, busy getting on with all the jobs and responsibilities of the day we become so wrapped up with it all we become almost myopic and cease to see the bigger picture.
Pausing for a moment to look up from the reports, to look away from the computer screen we can give ourselves time....just a moment of time, to free our neck, relax our shoulders; to think loose and tall so we can 'relax' and function better. Now we can get on with what we're doing, while not harming ourselves in the process. But pause a second longer....and look out.
Looking up and into the distance is a simple but great experience; how many of us actually do this? Living and working in the city or home, we get used to focusing on things around us that are probably no further away than a few metres. If we go out to the shops or to a meeting we may extend our sight to a hundred metres, across the road, the traffic and passers-by. How often do we get a chance to look towards the horizon, the tops of the buildings, the edge of far away hills, out to sea where ships appear like specs on a curved watery globe, to distant mountains, to eagles soaring above high crags, the wild buffalo, lions and zebras in the wild, the spray fro the waterfall. When was the last time you looked at the stars? "Fine chance to do that!" I hear some say...
But just pause a moment and look out of your window at something that you've never noticed before. Look at the chimney pots, the balconies on the windows some distance down the street. I used to love travelling on the top of a double decker bus because one just gets a different view on life; we see things differently. Things are able to be seen differently all the time; it just depends on our perspective; how we feel and how we look out. We can either see things around us as we normally do or we can see them from a different view. Then we notice how old and shabby appears somethings that we use on a daily basis.
When we're tunnel visioned and focusing on what is in hand at the moment, we can easily not see ourselves in the bigger picture. The bigger picture is the world. No matter what we are doing right now, somewhere beyond our view and maybe over the horizon there are buzzards circling over rabbits, albatrosses soaring over ice-caps, cheetahs running at 60mph, people climbing mountains and others diving to the sea bed.
When we're worried about the bills, the pressure of work or the lack of employment; when we're wrapped up in our own thinking we are not aware that there is someone right now looking up our phone number to offer us a wonderful deal or invitation. Someone is wondering if you'd like to go out on a date and what it would be like to make love to you.
All the time there are things happening of which we are not aware. All the time there are people organising themselves or considering doing something that will have repercussions and bring something new into your life. If we cannot imagine what, it is because of our limited imagination. You just don't know what's around the corner.
Look up from what you're doing, look out of the window; look into the distance and let yourself realise that over that building opposite, over the hill and a bit beyond, there is 'stuff' happening that's just about to come your way. Good stuff. Heck, what would life be like without surprises....?
Keep smiling.
