the soup of being

Each of us sloughs off skin cells. They may hit the ground, lay on the bed, adhere to our clothes. If they are on the bed maybe they fall on the floor as the bed is made. They are vacuumed up. You walk out the door and there are some on your shoes. They fall off your body as you move through your day. You take a shower and cells go down the drain into the sewer or septic system and eventually into the ground; reclaimed water. Eventually, all those sloughed off skin cells get back into the earth. Imagine 7 billion people sloughing off skin cells every day and all those cells eventually returning to the earth...the soup of beingness. This is one way in which the microcosm co-mingles with the macrocosm!

When you drive your car among other traffic, this observer perceives a plethora of individual thoughts about food, feelings, driving information, family concerns, business activities and other goals surrounded by an orderly flow of physical movement. Traffic lights change, drivers scan their environment and all manner of vehicles and individuals navigate their paths without injury. This is the human equivalent to a flock of birds moving as one. This observer also notes more subliminal vibrational influences on each driver: audio, visual, emotional, microwave, electromagnetic and others not measurable by current instrumentation. So, a busy intersection is a confluence of many energies, a soup of sorts in which we all participate and navigate while experiencing energies of interaction. 

The point is that we exist in a soup of beingness in which we tend to focus on the physical. It is the non-physical that gives rise to the physical experience. Science is showing us again and again that emotions underlie most physical maladies. The point here is that emotions are the key player in life. What we feel is expressed in the soup, and sensed most strongly by whatever or whoever is proximal.

Every reader has had an experience known as a "gut feel" about another person, situation or decision. You could not  explain what you sensed, but you had a certainty about the action you should take. You were sensing something in the environment of that event that resonated or interfered with your energy field. This experience can be referred to as an intuition. Maybe you sensed something in a person's tone or you read something in their body language or you had a strong feeling about the words that were used in a conversation. This is the push/pull of the soup, the subliminal physics of interaction.

It is glorious! 

Live in the moment; pay attention to your environment whether you are in the great outdoors or a business meeting. There is so much energy interacting all the time. There are sounds, sights, fragrances and other frequencies of the spectrum that you take for granted, that you relegate to the background, and they all contribute (connect) you to your experiences. 

The next time you go out in the early morning air, take a few slow deep breaths and feel every cell in your body awaken with inflowing oxygen of those breaths. You feel refreshed with this experience. It makes a difference in how you start your day because you appreciate the improvement. And that is just the beginning of a day of paying attention....living in the moment....being present in your now.

If you asked a long lived person who truly appreciates life, what makes life so special, they would tell you it is a lot of little things that involve paying attention. The greatest gift you can give yourself and others is appreciation...so slow down the pace of your life and pay attention. Look beyond the physical to the glue that enables the physical to manifest.