When did you last gaze at the sky?

When did you last gaze at the sky?

When did you last lie down and gaze at the sky until you lost track of time?

Sky-gazing is a wonderful practice that I believe most of us do far too seldom. But it is one of these things you can do in-between. We have a chance to sky-gaze much more often than sit beneath a tree or even let our feet dangle in a sunny brook.

In the business of our everyday lives we don’t always have the hour or two we’d like to spend outside in nature, working-out like real earth warriors, or roaming through wonderful places with nothing else to do but adventure. We get up in the morning at the time we have to, to make sure we can get a bite to eat and be at work on time. We drive cars, go shopping, have our lunch, a bit of small-talk in the hall or at the tip; it doesn’t really matter what or where, or who we are, we are all very busy. If we’re not busy, we make ourselves busy, we click through our iPhone, flick through a magazine, light a fag and think about what happened this morning, stare at adverts or people, no matter what, input is what we create and what we get.

All this certainly somehow keeps us alive and tuned in to what is accepted to be good to be tuned into, but where are we? Where is our centre and our connection to life? All this business builds up loads of tension within us. We lose contact to our bellys and hearts, and no longer are centred and connected to our deeper selves and our roots. Our real desires are smothered by the needs on our messy surface.

One thing we can do, to find out more about ourselves and reach back into our rooted centre, is to deliberately watch and become aware of all these moments and minutes in-between. Look for the niches in your every-day life, when you don’t really have something specific to do, but usually would occupy yourself with some busy habit. These are the moments everyday and throughout everyday, when you can recollect your natural self and get back into your centre. These are the points to take a deep breath and step out of the rush for a moment and see beauty, and become rooted.

It might be standing at the bus-stop and gazing at the sky. Just taking in the vast beauty and being one with it. Maybe you’ll notice a spider building a web, creating new patterns, or you might catch a glimpse of two humans meeting in a funny way and realize the beauty in their engagement. These encounters can engage you in life more if you have the awareness to notice them and to gaze for a moment, forgetting yourself and seeing life. Practising this and taking it in with a deep breath will bring more abundance into our lives than any modern business.

Find the niches in your everyday life! Use them to re-charge, to become centred and rooted! Maybe you can find time to gaze at the sky, just being in the sky. The sky is everywhere and is endless!

Get outside! Move to your roots!
wild-horse 04/2014