When you are walking a trail filled with sharp stones, slippery slopes, slimy rocks, through streams, stopping at waterfalls on your way, you tend to develop a sharp sense of focus. All your faculties aim to ensure your step doesn’t falter and your next step is on a dry, smooth surface - be it rock or ground.
Alternately, when the sun is shining down on you, even as you climb up a slope, do you look up at the sky to comment on how difficult it is... you actually keep your head down and focus solely on not slipping off the slope, not losing the ground you gained.
As I walked through a similar trail this weekend, even with all the sounds around me, of my family, even with all the sights, the colors, the chaos - all I could think of was how peaceful it was. Every now and again I found myself looking about in awe as all that chatter faded into background noise and all I could hear was the silence. All I could feel was the cool water of the waterfall. When I looked up, all I felt was the warmth of the sun. And suddenly, the chatter came back into focus and I was part of it again.
How easy it became to be mindful. To focus on the senses. To detach from the moment. How easy.
If only this could be replicated in our day-to-day chaotic life. Oh, that would be bliss!
With practice, it’ll happen. For sure.
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Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You can read more about her HERE.
