For years you try to get to that place you dream of. Professionally, emotionally, physically, your plans weigh on you and your sense of belonging depends on the achievement of those goals. You try over and over again to get there, life does not seem right without your next goal. But this desire to achieve never ends. When you get what you wanted, you see something else in the horizon.
I’m sitting at the park and I watch the birds flying, the flowers carefully facing the sun, the wind moving back and forth, and I sense a different motivation, a different rhythm. I wonder if there is a place from within from which we can set forward ‘naturally’ into action. Athletes and dancers know of being ‘in the zone.’ Finding your natural rhythm allows you to achieve your dreams without attachments, your abilities flourish and develop to achieve results almost effortlessly. Spiritual wisdom traditions from the East call that natural effort ‘doing not-doing.’
Are you trying too hard, burdened by attachments? Are your abilities compromised by the lack of intuitive rhythm? How do you arrive at effortless action?
Try This Meditation:
Breathe in and out mindfully. Moment by moment, notice. What kind of resistance is stopping you from achieving your dreams? Look at your struggle. Do you have any attachments? Is the fear of the future getting in your way? Moment by moment, keep a mind clear like a mirror. Moment by moment, without attachments to results, just do it.
Juan Velasco