There will always be changes. Some of them are small and some are unexpected and unexpectedly big, such as the passing of a loved one. You can prepare for such changes in the awareness that change is part of the natural flow of life, but until it happens you may not be aware of how off balance you can become. What is the solution?
Find now the part of you that never changes. It is not so much a part as a state … a state of being. You find it not when you are mindful, but when you are mind-less. Dissolve into this state moment by moment as you sit silently for one minute at a time. Watch the thoughts and experience simply being changeless as you watch the mind from your most natural mindless state. And then, when life changes, take breaks to simply be … the presence of Peace.
You are so very loved.
I was not only having a great day, i was “in the flow” all morning. Having finished building a tressle upon which to suspend my hanging plant pots, i then finished potting the plants for my balcony and filled and hung the hanging the bird-feeder units too.
I ran inside to make a coffee so i could sit in the sunshine with my cat., Fred… to enjoy the floral colour arrays, the beautiful breeze and sun on the balcony. I got the newspaper too, n aimed to also check my emails.
My coffee made – i head out to the balcony. Squirrels!!! …four of them munching on the bird seed, tromping in and on the now broken plants while they were finding the edible ones,…and digging holes in the planters looking for bulbs … it was a complete caotic mess and so very different from the pleasantry in which i was hoping to spend time. Uggggh!!!! I had only been in the apartment 5 minutes making my coffee …and now this.
Then it dawned on me. I had not yet thrown food down for the squirrels before i started these projects this morning. It seems they thought I was building and planting a surprise for them. The surprise was on me.
I sat down in the mess anyway and opened the newspaper, right to the weather page. “WARNING: danger of frost tonight with temperatures of 3 Farenhiet below zero”
WHAT? It’s May 31st! Everyone has been planting! Oh no… where will i put all these plants?
Suddenly a ream of expletives poured out of me.
My “in the flow” went out with the thought of the cold.
It sure had been a nice morning though.
Now i get to do it all again. Lol
Meanwhile, I sat anyway.