I have a friend whose shoe lace comes undone every time she needs to pay attention to something. So she pauses and opens up to notice what that is. It’s reliable for her. I have another friend who has songs on the radio that jump out at her with something to pay attention to and that’s reliable for her too.
I come from a broader place. Sometimes it’s an animal that grabs my attention, like the incredible connection with the bear and the snake when I was out riding in the US (I might tell you that story one day, it’s a lulu!) and the eagle whose wings I could feel flexing from my shoulder as we flew together in New Zealand, or the seal whose eyes I could see through as his adrenaline had him almost dancing on the spot as he warned the rest of the colony in pictures about the shark close by and how he’d only just escaped. Or the hundreds (lots anyway!) of butterflies on the track as I walked one day. Sometimes it’s words on a roadside sign or on a truck that grab my attention or the words in a song, or a line in a movie, or a phrase in a book I’m reading that grabs me, a pattern of people behaving in a certain way, or a pattern of crappy things happening to me, or even something that a child says in that beautiful way that children have sometimes.
My point is, that it’s not the sign itself that is telling me something, it’s my attention being focused on it and my feelings about it. What’s the message?
Signs are an opportunity to notice what our attention is focused on, they’re an opportunity to pause and notice the feeling that it brings up – all five ways of feeling – and to understand why that has come to our attention.
Signs are a message from the INSIDE of us.
What a wonderful opportunity this is, to pause and notice the truth of that for yourself. “Is THAT really true for you – or not?”
Photo: This is one of Camille Dareau’s lovely compositions that you can get fro yourself on Horse Art Digital on Facebook.
