Daily Nugget #192
my crowbar
let me start this Nugget with
the passage that inspired it
from Rob Brezsny’s Freewill Astrology.
<he rocks, by the way>
here are his thoughts about Virgo for this week:
‘You may not have to use a literal crowbar in the coming weeks, but this rough tool will serve you well as a metaphor. Wherever you go, imagine that you’ve got one with you. Why? It’s time to jimmy open glued-shut portals . . . to pry loose mental blocks . . . to coax unyielding influences to budge . . . to nudge intransigent people free of their fixations. Anything that is stuck or jammed needs to get unstuck or unjammed through the power of your willful intervention.’
that pretty much describes my work
in it’s many forms.
cool.
‘what are we gonna UNblock today?’ you ask.
how about we explore time again
just for the heck of it.
since so many of us are controlled by it.
it dawned on me today
that fighting-the-moment
is a real thing.
how?
picture this:
you are doing something nice and relaxing
like kicking back in the yard
taking a stroll around the hood
or
reading a book.
then you hear,
‘i ‘should’ be doing this or that’
‘i could be doing this or that’
‘why am i not DOing this or that?’
what a buzz kill.
you are NOT doing this or that
because you are chillin’
and
chillin’ is just as productive as DOin’
<if not more>
there i was
out on a beautiful stroll
thinking:
‘omg. i need to get back and do . . . ‘
wtf.
why can’t i just enjoy the moment
that i chose to be in?
in that moment, i chose to walk.
in the next, i questioned why i was walking
when there were SO many other ‘things’ to do.
doh.
i caught myself fighting the moment
which gets me nowhere
except IN my head
stressing.
time to bust out the crowbar.
i reeled myself in
and
enjoyed the moment
the moment i chose to walk in!
<i like walkin’>
and
got back to the Now
<the thing that really matters>
so that in the version of Now that was when i reached my home
i could be in that Now
and choose
to do with that Now what i wished.
i was sure happy i took the walk
so was my dog.
take the walk & enjoy it.
wanna read what Rob says about you?