When you are heavy, you cannot fly – a mini meditation. Episode 13, #60SecondSanctuarySonnet
Listen in and sync with the season.
“When you think too much you make yourself heavy and when you are heavy you cannot fly.” – Don Juan Matus
Research shows that in a very busy life, small, momentary sips of nature can help to reduce pain, anxiety, stress, fatigue, distress & other physiological & psychological issues. (Kaplan and Kaplan, 1998) When we engage two or more of our senses in nature-based positive distractions, we double down on the lolly for our brain. There’s a recoup. A soothing. A little moment of safe haven from the thoughts that make us feel heavy.
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Down the road a bit is a single persimmon tree growing in what appears to be a remnant yard of a now abandoned farm house.
She’s close to the road. Lovely in shape tho rather non-descript most of the year, flowing through the seasons quietly.
Until this “5th season”. That bridge time between summer’s end and fall’s cornucopia when yellow-ish green ingenue fruit appears almost out of nowhere. Then, in just a short while that fruit, with the right conditions, turns a coral orange. Matured.
Unless you’re a rabid persimmon fanatic, you wouldn’t be inclined to give this tree’s transformation much attention. Especially this part of the PacNW US. There aren’t many persimmon orchards, you see, instead hazelnuts, blueberries, grass and hemp cover most of the farmland in this valley. So come this 5th season, when this tree unveils her journey of transformation. She BECOMES illuminata with fruit. With maturity.
She reveals the truth of work that goes on unseen for most of the “year”. If you harvest too soon, her truth is not fully formed – its bitter, acrid, immature. Yet, waiting and welcoming the maturity, you’re rewarded with sweetness and wisdom of what she bears.
Her fall blush of fruit pairs so well with her foliage drape. A cape of all the warm autumnal tones causes me to stop. Admire. She is temple-worthy. Often found planted in sacred places of worship and devotion in Asia, Persimmon carries a divinity in spirit in the ordinary flow of life. She is known as a tree of illumination and when she appears, her wisdom suggests making choices that allow our dreams to ripen and mature – sweet and wise.
Her fruit is a perfect offering on my autumnal altar inside – a little shrine time. Outside, I choose to remember the sanctity of my good nature’s pace of transformation. We need more reminders of the power of maturing choices that ripen the Sanctuaries of ourselves. Want a sacred space that is more than just another pretty place? One that soothes your senses, digs deep for your wellbeing and helps you set that stress down to #BeYourOwnSanctuary?
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Stop the artificial space-making – a mini meditation. Episode 12, #60SecondSanctuarySonnet
Listen and let this sync IN. STOP THE ARTIFICIAL SPACE-MAKING:: It has nothing to do with who and how you want to be. It is not natural. Drop the pretense of “so busy” and “have to” and being buried in tasks. Those, my friend are choices. (Hey, I’m looking at you too, Annie.) Those choices remove us from being present, showing up present and most all keep us from savoring the season. When we over-commit, we spend so much time explaining, complaining, rationalizing when we can’t get it ALL done. We burn excess and precious resources. This dampens the glow of our flow. This dims our Ore. What space might become available in the landscape of you, when you stop over-committing?
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