Look up.
A practice in presence.
We spend so much of our days looking down.
Looking down at our devices,
Down casting our eyes at our feet to avoid eye contact
As if we're curling into ourselves, protecting our heart, our throat. The place in our body where true expression lives.
Instead, we confine ourselves to the algorithm we're being fed.
We keep ourselves closed off. Hidden.
And for me this has began to chaff.
I want to break free from it. I want to open myself up to more magic, wonder, awe.
And the easiest way I’ve found to do this is to simply just LOOK UP.
Go outside and look up at the sky, look at the clouds, the trees, the rooflines on the buildings where they cut into the atmosphere.
Physically taking your eyes up and out of your little vortex to make you SEE you're part of something bigger, greater, more.
I've been playing with this practice for a while now and I love seeing the sky as an ever changing art gallery. How magical. Seeing the light and the colours change, I begin to feel more a part of the nature surrounding you.
More connected to something bigger and outside of myself.
Helps me ZOOM OUT. Especially when I’m stuck in a downward spiral.
And when I'm out walking, I play a little experiment with my intuition and see where this guidance will take me. Allow myself to be led by something other than my mind.
This week, when I was walking. I felt the call to look up. And at that exact moment I could see the moon perfectly framed in the small gap in the tree canopy.
A little reveal. A little moment of synchronous magic. Where I was in the right moment at the right time to see that divinely framed picture.
It's in these small moments of presence that help us see the magic and wonder in the world where we live.
You don't have to move your life to the woods to experience this for yourself.
You can have this today, right now. Just simply go outside and look up.
Play hide and seek with the moon.
Play with finding pictures in the clouds.
Play with opening your heart and allowing your heart to lead you on your next walk.
No matter how much journaling and embodiment work work I do. My biggest teacher will always be nature and how I feel when interacting with it.
So I invite you to go outside and reconnect with nature, starting with simply LOOKING UP.
Allow yourself to notice and be open to wonder.
Let me know how you go.
Big Love,
Emma
xx
