Taken from the book, Weekly Gratitudes:
For the ability and choice to create movement through dance
This Week’s Action Statement
“ I am grateful for the pulse of life that inspires me to move to surrender to the rhythmic flow. I give thanks for the patterns and rhythms that move my cells to dance. I am deeply grateful for my willingness to dance my moments into full living celebration that leads me into the profound beauty that awaits my claiming of it. Na, na na na na...”
This Week’s Action
The multiverse is vibrating, in constant motion as the atoms and molecules oscillate in patterns of celebration that create form. Change is constant. Flow is the invitation of love to allow one to experience the richness of life. Everywhere is rhythm: the seasons, the daily cycle, the weather, gestation, breath, heartbeats, blood flow, digestion, waves and rivers...on and on the dance of life. Nowhere is there anything static. Even the rocks change via weathering by the elements.
To attempt to remain static, to hold back the flow of life, to resist change...are all exercises in futility. And yet, we so often do our best to resist growth, keep the status quo, refrain from responding, hold in the energy, keep the song inside, or refuse to dance because we do not know the steps. STOP IT! There is no faster way to the mediocre life than to be a wallflower. Whatever your reasons that you hold back and watch while the world moves on and others have the fun, they are not worth it.
Just move. The body is designed to be active. The gift of life is not to be kept under the tree in pretty wrapping. We are designed to get dirty. We are programmed at inception to oscillate a frequency that contributes mightily to the grand symphony. Holding back for the sake of others, or looking good, or because of old woundings are just not satisfactory reasons anymore, not that they ever were.
Be grateful that you can move your body. Be grateful that there is a pulse to life. Be grateful that you are a song that is to be sung. Be grateful that the steps to your dance are your own. Engage in life...do not hesitate to let the music swirl and lift your heart into unfettered willingness. Take the first step. Your higher self will lead you when you surrender. Put on music and move...in the comfort of your own space. Open the door to allowing and see how the dance takes over . Walk and create a rhythm to the very sound of your steps. Notice how everything around you falls into step with you. Get a drum and create a rhythm that moves you. Stumble your way into the flow that is within you. So many stall when they think they do not know the steps. Every dance started with a stumble and a mistake, as the steps formed themselves to become the dance. Let yourself move through the awkward beginning to find your pulse. Let the multiverse play you. Surrender your resistance.
Salsa music activates all of the chakras. Native American music grounds you in the thunderous drum of the Earth. Middle Eastern music frees the hips and disperses the woundings into the ethers. Rock and roll awakens the power center and triggers the celebration cells of happiness. The blues breaks open the bottle of pain we carry in the depths of our beings. Drink up and let it spill all over the rhythmic floor of your moments.
Notice, too, the rhythm of life. Look for the flow of the day. Watch the clouds. Follow the sun. Notice the animals. Watch the plants as they connect with the sun. Listen to the songs of the birds. Hear the patterns move. Unify with nature and see how she moves with you. The cycles are in alignment to deep cycles within you, daily routines of a divine flow that nurture and guide and sustain. And all this happens while you are unaware. Why not start dancing with all of life? It is a complete improvisation, a random dance that reveals itself at the conclusion of the current step.
Go to the beach and dance with the waves. Go to the playground and oscillate on the swings, spin on the merry go round, rise and fall on the see saw, dance out the sound of children in abandoned play. Use what life gives you in this moment. Make it a dance. Move with it. Let the spirit ignite your embrace. Open to the guidance sent to you by Love. Make rhythms with your voice, with your feet, with your hands upon your body. Feel the pulse of life and make it your source of action. Make it all up...but just do it. Put your left foot in, put your left foot out, and shake it all about...the Hokey Pokey IS what it is all about. Places everyone! And a one, and a two, and a three...
