Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Renewed acquaintance
There has been something missing from my Alexander Technique teaching room for many weeks and it's only today that I have truly taken note. Such has been the nature of recent busy days; being occupied with giving lessons as well as managing the building work on our new house from afar and everything else that squeezes into our lives, that the omission has not previously registered itself fully on my mind.
But now the situation has been rectified.
For the first time in as many weeks as I can remember, yellow chrysanthemums grace my window sill and how pleasing it is. How can I have gone so long without their presence? How can I not even have noticed?
There is something about real cut flowers, or a plant that brings life into a room. It brings the outdoors, indoors. Their lively pertness reaches upwards towards the light, their petals waver in a slight breeze from the partially open window, their colour reflects around the room casting a soft glow and luminance and I feel very 'not alone'. They give me company. Now I am not going as far as my late mother who in the early years of her illness could not pass a vase of flowers without stopping to say, "Oh, hello! How are you today?" But I do feel their quiet energy and appreciate their life and presence.
I am very grateful for the radiant colour and freshness these yellow chrysanths bring to my teaching room. When I am working on my clients, invariably in the middle of the room so that we can experiment with standing with improved balance, walking and sitting and means of bending, I can see the flowers on my window sill out of the corner of my eye and they are a very gentle but very definite source of uplifting joy. They exude happiness.
When they pass their best and their 'time has come', I shall let them go with ease and gratitude. I shall also immedately go out and buy some more.
:-)
Comments
Hi Noel
It's good to remember the simple things in life that give us so much pleasure.
Posted by: Karen | October 21, 2008 4:53 PM
I was beginning to wonder and missed them too.
Posted by: Stella | October 21, 2008 5:22 PM
Your blog post reminds me how important it is to be a part of nature. Nature and our living quarters are never separate. I'm thankful for the reminder to incorporate some beautiful flowers into apartment's window sill. I'll be reading more of your posts.
Posted by: Steve B | October 23, 2008 1:37 AM