I recently (re)found a book that was given to me several years ago by a friend. It’s not a book of quotes exactly, but rather short phrases taken from stories and poems, etc. It’s call the The Literary Book of Answers and the idea is to take 10 or 15 seconds to concentrate on a question while holding the book in your hands. The page it opens to is the answer to your question. I’ve been having some fun taking pictures of a few of the pages…’cause you know I just love text in an image!
After spending the morning the other day lounging around in bed, I finally came downstairs for nourishment and thought I’d take a few photo’s of some books. I pulled this one out of the bookcase and it opened to this page…which completely validated my morning of lying in bed! Don’t you just love it when the Universe tells you not to do the laundry?
I actually have no problem with being physically still. I do it rather well…in fact, a little too well! My challenge comes with stilling my mind! I’m getting much better at it but like most of us, stilling the monkey mind (swinging from thought to thought to thought like monkey’s swing from branch to branch) is something I’m still working with but I’m much better at catching myself now, when I begin swinging through the tangled jungle of my thoughts.
When that happens, I breathe.
Breathing deeply, stills me.
It brings me back to center.
Maybe the message wasn’t about going back to bed after all but to remember “to use the tools” and still my heart.
A wise direction.
Have a lovely day dear friends…play well together.
