Just walking without thinking of arriving anywhere is a rare blessing – a true Peace Walk!! Give it a try, and report what is noticed about the feel of it…
Peace Walk!
by Keshav | Dec 1, 2021 | Community Insights | 5 comments
Just walking without thinking of arriving anywhere is a rare blessing – a true Peace Walk!! Give it a try, and report what is noticed about the feel of it…
On the first evening when the temperatures where perfect for walking I went to walk in circles around my apartment complex. A tiny little girl was confidently walking along with her mom. I was so struck with her that I blew her a kiss and waved. She opened into a beautiful smile in return and it was like a gift from heaven. Sure glad I didn’t miss that. I keep that memory in my heart.
If I am doing housework and start dropping things, I take a very slow walk around the backyard. Looking down then looking up, I always am gifted with something new, arriving or leaving, or changing. I am taken out of my sense of pressure to get things done (or whatever was going on in my mind), and I am simply present. Very freeing.
When I am willing to do anything without an expectation, life immediately seems to slow down. I can enjoy a breath of fresh air ,and a moment of undivided peace.
This is rare this time of year with so many Things to Do around the holidays, so Thank you for this reminder! I took a ski last week and after one stop to check the bird feeder I went a different way, I just kept going! Off the beaten path per se, even my dog Phoebe was excited, new smells, sounds, sights, slowing down, not making any plans of stopping even when I got in view of the house. Fresh snow, obstacles of tree limbs down, just kept going and eventually got back on an old familiar path, but it was different this time, fresh start from a new beginning. Namaste.
I did this all the time in CT. In my rural town, where a walk around the block was at least an hour. And in the small town I last lived in where there were multiple ways to turn. I was born to walk. The trick is to remember to turn back home! In the rural town there was a new surprise every day. A turtle burying eggs, a bird, a wonderful reflection in some water, etc. once a pasture that usually held easygoing milk cows had been replaced with bulls, one of which came after me, trying to climb up the stone wall and over the barbed wire. In the town there were sights you couldn’t take in when driving. The intricate gingerbread trim on the old houses, the changing of the plants in bloom, always something to take in in a new way. It was always the journey and not the destination. Always there in the moment without a destination to think about.