So I’m sitting down to meditate, and as is sometimes the case, being still brings up emotions that I’m too distracted to deal with when I’m busy. If it’s really bad, I defer the meditation for a few minutes, and talk to the Universe. God, Spirit, Cosmos. Whoever or Whatever’s listening.
This morning I let the Universe have it between the eyes. No holds barred. I had complaints. Justifiable complaints. Complaints about unfairness, about things in my life that are NOT going according to plan. Things that are a great annoyance, inconvenience and downright WRONG. Things that I don’t have a f***ng clue how to deal with. Things that make me feel helpless. I was wound up!
As I was almost at the end of my diatribe, I heard some sand hill cranes in flight squawking their heads off. They have a honking squawk you can hear a mile away.
It made me laugh out loud! I had a sneaking suspicion those cranes were the Universe’s humorous way of telling me how I sounded. Squawk squawk squawk. Anyway, I felt better after squawking and got on with my meditating.
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I think that’s a good way to handle it, BG, and I can relate completely. Sometimes I feel like if I start complaining I’ll never stop. Over the end of year, lots to complain about, and my regular meditation group session hasn’t been running. And as you describe, how a small touch of what is real can burst anger, sadness, self-absorption like a bubble, bring you back to the here and now. And I’m writing too much as usual, because it really resonates with me. 😃
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Thanks, Steve. I hadn’t been to my meditation group for a month either, and it makes a difference even though I meditate on my own. It’s better for me to vent now and then or I start feeling like a martyr. 😦 If I take it out on the Universe, maybe an innocent bystander won’t get it “between the eyes.” haha. I’ve had a challenging few months, but that’s life. Sometimes when it rains it pours. I just have to remind myself not to take the sunny days for granted. Peace!
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I love this so much! 🙂
And you have cranes!!! We have herons and I just love watching them look out into the sea. They’re probably looking at it the same way we look at a menu, but it looks far more pensive than that!
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Thanks! I love herons too! They look so elegant.
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So much love.
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Thanks!
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Those cranes, the stand almost four feet tall. And yeah, they make such a strange sound, a warbling-honk-squawk. “Those aren’t geese? What the hell are those funky things?”
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