Hello darkness
Resist the chaos - without giving up your presence
My favorite time of day is when the day releases its grip.
When the night arrives, in the exhale of the day.
Here in Krabi, sunset comes with the sound of cicadas trembling in the corners of the jungle, and fruit bats cutting silent paths across the sky toward the deep mangroves. They fly in the hundreds- dark brushstrokes pulling the night in l, painting the sky into something softer, deeper. Hundreds of them, flying silently and yet so close over my house that it feels that I could touch them if I just reach out.
I watch them every evening. I watch them barefoot, soles against soil and grass, skin against air. What began as a routine has become a ritual.
A ritual is a routine where energy becomes visible.
The greens of leaves and plants slowly surrender and becomes shadow and silhouettes. And while edges blur and details disappear in front of me, the visble world turns mysterious. And as it does, I close my eyes and allow myself to melt together with the same shift.
I breathe in the slightly cooler air and imagine every cell in my body breathing with me. Slowly, I shift my weight from right to left. As I move, I visualize my breath travelling through my body - as shimmering blue light descending through my soles, into earth.
Into the sacredness of these lands.
When I open my eyes again, everything has changed and yet, nothing has changed. I am standing on the same soil, with the same sky, just softer, quieter and reframed.
I reclaim the sacredness and my belonging to the earth and to myself, every second as I stand in the world that shifted with me in the centre.
A reminder that the world look entirerly different depending on how we meet it.
As I practice expanding my awareness- my love, my magic -I know that many right now are drowning in chaos and fear. This noise is loud and scrambles perspectives and shatters magic. The attention is pulled away from what is steady and alive and from the love that still surrounds us. Chaos makes it hard and sometimes impossible to remember goodness.
If you are reading this, wherever you are, you are allowed to step out from the noise. You can still be a responsible adult, parent, or whoever you are, and also step out from the noise and allow yourself to soften.
Reclaim your social media feed from the algorithms and feed yourself images of things that remind you of beauty. Put your phone on silent and practice just being present in the moment.
If you don´t love bats, then make sure you have enough kittens, oceans, horses or images of nature that widen your breath.
Your fear and anxiety will not solve the world´s problems. While you are grounded and centered in your body, might be a more important piece in the puzzle of what you can think of right now.
Take five minutes today. And tomorrow. And the next day.
Find the magic and embrace it.
If you are always getting pulled away from what you love and from the highest form of your vibrations and existence, you will lose yourself.
Resist.