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CHOk. Lets talk about something that happens when I let go of the ”trying to do” something. In classes I might refer to it as surrendering or softening. We can be guided into this but also sometimes it’s just naturally there. And when it is, everything feels closer. The body feels closer. Breath feels like movement. An there is this quiet hum present, like a puls.
And if I can stay in that, rather than rush past it, which is also often the case, then nothing feels missing or there is no lack of anything.
Which is so cool, because so much of the world runs on the feeling that something is missing. That I need something more. To achieve something. Fix something. Become something. I am sure many of you know this need… and when it shows up, I have noticed I can feel it in my body. It’s subtle, but it’s there, like a tightening. A contraction. The opposite of surrender and softness.
And the times I don’t follow that reaching, if I stay… what’s already here starts to feel so alive. Not in a dramatic way. Just steady. Like a flow.
In Yoga (non-dual Tantra) they call it spanda, the subtle pulse of life. It sounds big, but it’s actually very simple. It’s just this quiet aliveness that’s always present. In the breath. In sensation. In being here.
And It’s not that I stop wanting things or that there is no ambition. It’s just that the urgency drops. And there’s a kind of stillness, but it’s not flat. It’s alive. And grasping softens.
Oh how I love to create from that space
@christal.somatic.arts
