AWARENESS AND AWE

Practicing awareness will result in awe. Tai Chi — meditation in motion.

Haven’t been able to get to Tai Chi class for a minute — wrong day for scheduling! But today, I finally made it! The origins of Tai Chi are in self-defense, I think; but I have come to appreciate the gentle, flowing movements. It’s the most dance-like of any exercise class that I have taken — except, of course, dance classes!

I know that I need the balance and flexibility that Tai Chi enhances. And as for my mind? For a minute, I do not think of other things — plans, tasks, errands, problems. I don’t have to look back and wonder what I coulda, shoulda, woulda done differently. I don’t have to look ahead and worry about what needs to be done first, then next, and what comes after that. For the better part of an hour, I can just close the shutters of my mind and focus on where I am and what I’m doing — I can be right here, right now, in this moment. I can practice awareness, and experience awe.

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” James Thurber