Simple, Beautiful, Lesson

"By learning to effectively manage how we experience emotions and communicate them to others, we can live skillful emotional lives that truly reflect strength of understanding." - Steven McCornack

This was a challenging week on many levels, health, emotional, and mental. I was able to take time the last few days to practice stilling my mind.... Thursday and Friday mornings, I was in an incredibly beautiful place and I allowed myself the time to watch the water fall from its high place and ripple out as it connected with the rest of the body of water. I wondered at how smooth those rocks must be? Is that what pain and friction does for our hearts and souls....smooth the jagged edges of the ugliness that lies within. Have you identified and accepted the good, the bad and the ugly of who you are?  I ask you to consider this....as I have. Why does one change? Why does one decide that certain characteristics or traits are not worth having? Because they have seen something better, they desire to have more. I was also able to practice this stillness of mind and body throughout the day and night. When someone was talking to me, I gave my whole focus, I watched their eyes, their lips, their body, I paid attention to the inflection of tone. I allowed myself the pleasure of listening and in turn was rewarded with stillness of soul. I was unaware of how those two were so deeply connected. This one truth has so profoundly affected me, I am sitting here in wonderment at the cause and effect of something that truly is simple and yet I made it incredibly, painfully difficult, over the last year. I am beginning to get this concept, this lesson, that the Universe has been trying desperately to teach me. The struggle will be to not allow complacency and comfortableness rob me of this beautiful lesson. I will reflect and mediate daily on being still, listening and showing my reverence, to the one who has earned it and deserves it so completely. I will allow this gift to my soul.