Running in the sun again, certainly feels easier to me than running in the chilly, and the wet!
My preference is warm – the air balmy, only a need for a pair of shorts and singlet – and then – like this morning, a dip in the ocean immediately afterwards…
With not a stitch on too…!
But – the secret is to be fully present – wherever we are…
In the sunny climes, or the wet and windy ones, and appreciate that we are alive, experiencing this human journey…
This gift of life on earth….
Anadi and I arrived here in Port de Pollença yesterday afternoon…
After a great night’s sleep in a gigantic bed! – We rose early this morning and set off along the promenade…
The sun a fiery ball of orange over the sea…
The roads were very quiet, except for some cyclists and runners, and there was a group of swimmers, swimming together across the bay, looking like some strange sea creature with many tentacles rising out of the water…
As we approached ‘home’ the sea called out to us…
‘There’s no one around, you can skinny dip here…’
And so we did…!
We whipped off our kit and plunged straight into its welcoming embrace…
What a glorious feeling, the healing balm of the morning mediterranean
Ease and joy is our natural state; it is always there for us if we are willing to stay present and dive through the patterns and programmes that so often create suffering while we are here…
We can rid ourselves of our worldly suffering – right now – in this moment.
In every moment
It can take lifetimes
But it happens now, in letting go of our attachment to pain, to identification with the stress of the human journey – the ‘I’ who is attached to forgetting who we truly are…
Who we are cannot be thought, we the source of all thought with no beginning or end…
And as we clear the painful emotions, investigate and let go of the adaptations we have created – we discover that we are free, and that we have always been free…
And that this life is here for us to create our experience now, and now and now…
In this very moment we can heal our past and create an entirely different future
We can dive into the balmy sea of joy.
We can let go and live