It was cloudy when I woke up this morning as I walked out to my writing cottage, holding Gidget in my right arm like a football.
As I began my yoga practice I realized I hadn’t heard any birds this morning. I didn’t see them in the tree’s either. The past two days I’ve seen little sparrows flying about, landing in the trees outside my windows, with others gathering to meet them.
It was still and quiet this morning. I was missing the birds. As I often do, I play soft music in the background while I do my yoga practice. Most often I listen to Kevin Kern radio on Pandora.
Though I didn’t realize it immediately the next song started playing. One I had not heard before. Birds were chirping in the song. All of a sudden I realized what my thoughts had just been on—birds!
I had to quickly glance at my computer to see the name of the song that was playing and write it down before I returned to my mat. The song, Secret Garden by Dan Gibson— Solitudes, Exploring Nature with Music—The English Cottage Garden. ((I googled this and found it on Youtube. An hour long version which I’m listening to right now as I write this– and have shared with you at the end of this post).
As I continued my practice I began to smile. Wow, this is amazing, really. A moment ago I was lost in thinking about missing seeing the birds and hearing their beautiful singing outside my window. Instead they showed up in a different way.
Moving through my poses I thought, this will be most blog post for today! For a moment I hesitated and thought there is no way I can write about this– people will think I’m crazy.
But then it occurred to me that I don’t care. I was so happy in that moment of connecting my thoughts to the song that ” magically” appeared to play. It was real and beautiful for me. It brought me so much joy. I also thought about how I set my intention this year to be braver in my writing and what I share. Well, here it was, presenting itself.
It also made me think about how often we dismiss things like this in our life. But this is synchronicity! This, to me, is a sign that I am living in the moment—not worried about yesterday, today, or tomorrow. I’m aware of my thoughts, my surroundings, what speaks to me, and how connected I can feel to everything. In those amazing moments this is pure joy for me. I’m not crazy, I’m happy!
How often we look outside ourselves for this thing called happiness, when it is right here in our hearts. The simple pleasures, the simple moments that make our hearts smile.
As I lay in savasana pose Gidget crawled onto my chest. I couldn’t help but think she was helping to ground me. As much as I love savasana it is truly a practice for me because sometimes I get antsy and can’t lie still.
But today I melted into the mat and gave thanks for the abundance of beauty all around me. So grateful for my life.