Dancing Cattle

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The other day I saw this commercial on TV ~ two dairy farmers talking together about the Spring weather and the time when the dairy cows are being allowed to get out of the barns where they have been cooped up throughout the Winter.
The thing is that a date has been set for this event, and people can come out to a dairy farm close to them to see it happen...

It is the event of the dancing cattle.
When the doors of the barns are opened and the herds are allowed to go outside to enjoy fresh air, newly growing green grass, and with any luck a bit of sunshine ~ they will display their joy through ‘dancing’. Moving around each other, just like people might do. Truly enjoying the arrival of the new season and the greater freedom to move about.

The dance of happiness.

As kids we perhaps jumped up and down for joy.
Growing up most of us have let go of this exuberance. We have learned to express our happiness through words and smiles. Polished behavior that makes for a more comfortable, more predictable interaction with others.
In doing so we start holding back. Not only do we modify how we react, at the same time we also direct to which extend we will permit the energy of our happiness to flow through our system. The uninhibited experience of the joy of new things, new energies...
Making the experience more mental and less ‘of the heart’...

In the energy of today it seems we can benefit enormously from bringing together of the polarities into a balance, rather than choosing one polarity or another. In this case that would be experiencing in mind as well as in the heart ~ in thoughts and in feelings...
Allowing exuberant joy to bring balance to mind and heart; to our entire system.
Not keeping the experiences inside of us; bottling up our emotions ~ yet allowing those to flow, and allowing ourselves to move with that flow, to dance with that flow ~ may well be a way to reduce stress and enhance our sense of well-being and health...

If we would approach our lives more from this perspective, we may find that in permitting ourselves to fully experience whatever is going on around us ~ the greater the balance we stand to gain!

Going back to that commercial for dairy products, inviting their customers to observe the dairy cattle dancing for joy ~ it makes me think that perhaps we should even partake in that joyful dance!!
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