The greatest gift you can give yourself and others is to bee in the moment (yes I am aware I have spelt it wrong but hang on in there it will all make sense later in this blog).
On my walk with Bodhi dog today we walked through fields, woods, alongside an Estuary, a road that was filling up with water as the tide was rising and sat at a viewpoint on the Avon Estuary that was just as good as any view I have seen in the Caribbean.
We picked a spot for lunch where I could see across the whole of the estuary, with bright green fields and darker dense woodlands that looked like the head of the biggest bunch of broccoli as its backdrop.
I stopped to take a picture of the wild flowers and was met with a Bee doing its thing. I got close to it and took a picture, the bee was focussed and in the moment fulfilling his sole job to pollenate other flowers and do his bit to keep the planets ecology alive.
I like to think that there are a group of bees who have trained in mindfulness and teach the other bees to only focus on pollenating flowers while other bees are going rogue (it’s the rebel in me), But I know deep inside that is not the case, Bees are very aware what their jobs are and they focus on it and do it brilliantly without distractions of emails, messages and social media!
Well wouldn’t it be great if as humans we had that same level of focus, never deterring from our path of pollination, only if life were that simple.
There were points along the journey when my mind was busy thinking about interactions with people from the night before, what I needed to do when I got back to the Van and of course what I might eat for dinner 😊 (this is a staple thought as a big foodie.)
But there were also times when I was completely in the moment, I was looking across the estuary thinking how beautiful it looked and wishing I could get near it. The vivid blue water turning a little darker when the waters hit the banks, reminiscent of the water as it reaches the sand on beaches. Feeling the coldness of the water filling my trainers as I walked the road that gets hidden by the rising tides twice a day every day. The mud, that looked like dark golden sandy beaches from the arial view, was squelching under my feet threatening to make its way in to my shoes and between my toes.
It is through meditation that I have been able to bring my mind back from its wanderings and focus it to be in the moment. My mind is certainly not still every minute of every day but meditation has taught me to be more Bee and train my mind to focus more on what is right in front of me.
“The human brain was built to be distractible. The even better news is you can train your brain to pay attention more effectively” Dr Amishi P. Jha- Peak Mind.
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