One thing about the western civilization is that we are so concerned about doing and performing that we don’t take the time to muse, to contemplate, and to feel and be.  That is the great thing about being here.  All the classes and discussions have a sense of contemplation in them.  A sense that not knowing is OK and being within that feeling and allowing something to emerge, is also ok.  That is the eastern way of handling a process.  It helps one to slow down, not stress about time, and become aware of what another person is feeling, how that feeling resonates within one’s self and to wait for the space to have something emerge.   What a different way to relate.

When we are aware of being aware of what is going on, be it brushing our teeth, making tea, walking to a place or listening, we are totally in the experience instead of planning for the next experience to take place. I love the analogy of the apple cider. When first pouring the glass, it is cloudy. When we allow the juice to relax, it clears, settles and quiets down. So it is with our thoughts. We allow them to settle, get quiet, and then we can be totally in the experience.

As we practice becoming balanced in living and being, we find we are more aware of feeling and being in the experience instead of wanting it to be over and get to the next experience. We can also locate within ourselves how we react to someone else who is living their experiences and find that place of contemplation or awareness so that we have the ability to respond instead of reacting.

I love putting a reference of vibration and wavelength on a person’s energy level and your relationship with them. It helps to know whether the wavelengths are long (the
extreme of experience) shorter, (disengaged in the experience), or middle (neutral to experience). It is interesting to feel the vibration of fast, medium or slow energy level during these experiences. Then you can have a way of regulating where you are in relationship to another’s energy and you can become more easily in tune with them, or not. If you cannot, it brings you to a place of disconnection, where am I on the scale and why am I uncomfortable? Again, contemplation and opening a space for me to be and become aware of knowing or not knowing.

All of our relationships are about awareness in the moment of feeling, doing and being. What are the internal dialogues going on in any situation? How am I involved in the experience and what is my part in the outcome? Does there need to be an outcome? Is the connection simply enough?