Changing of the guard

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In nature the change from one energy to the another is marked by a motionless moment of quiet. Just like a swing on the playground holds still for only a couple of milliseconds before it reverses it movement…

We find those moments between the light of day and the darkness of the night; and again when the darkness makes way for the light of day. A similar moment of quiet is found in the utter darkness moments before the new moon, and again at the light when the moon is fullest.
And once we start looking for those moments we can find them in the movement of the Seasons, or the start of the new year. A changing of the guard.
Most of us have noticed that moment of silence when something is about to happen, and again right after whatever has happened has come to a point of rest. And those experiences may be nature related, like a thunder storm or even an earth quake. But they also occur when man-made life-changing events are happening. That moment when we know that something is about to happen, we just aren’t sure what it is until it starts…

Surprisingly enough, in our day-to-day lives we hardly ever incorporate those moments of silence, other than perhaps those that meditate. And even then, the silence is different as it is not related to the changing of energies.

As we are living life, we have a tendency to just keep going.
We get up, eat a bite, have some coffee or tea, and run out the door to get going on the things we are obligated to do. Whether it is our jobs, bringing the kids to school, running errands, cleaning the house ~ somehow, sometime in our lives we have gotten the idea that we are most productive when we keep on moving from one thing to the next ~ from one energy to the next ~ without missing a beat.
The more we have on our plate, the more we need to revert to ‘to-do lists’ in order to keep our balls in the air. And chances are that this routine leaves us exhausted when everything is done…

If nature has anything to teach us here, it may well be to take a moment each time we move from one thing to the next.
Fifteen, thirty seconds; a deep breath ~ and the conscious recognition that what we have done up to that point is now finished, so we have our hands and our energy free to move on to the next thing on our list.

A changing of the guard, a change of focus, a change in energy…
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