Tag: curiosity

Biodanza – a thank you

Love in your life

Biodanza – an invitation

Are you curious to bursting to know who you are? Are you willing to brush your reservations aside and go along with a new experience?

If you are saying yes, you are touching in to a highly valuable asset – the courage to give free rein to your curiosity.

Regular practice of Biodanza helps you become comfortable as never before with being acutely and sensitively aware of the presence of other people.

We all are colourful

On Tuesday, the day after my first Biodanza class in February 2013, I see in hindsight I must have been close to falling in love with living my life, for the first time.

I entered a shop to buy something. Ordinary words passed between me and the shop assistant. As we spoke in formal words, and as we held each other’s gaze, I saw the completeness of our mirrored reflections. I recognised my soul as a reflection of her soul in her eyes!

I will always remember the fresh delight of the shock of this new glimpse into the reality of a person who was, like me, living life fully alive. It was a beautiful realisation which included an involuntary falling away of my defensive self-image. I had abandoned the image of the socially conditioned person I routinely carried in front of me like a cardboard cut-out.

This effacement of self image is an act of humility in which I unconditionally open my heart to acknowledge the heart of the other being. This is an act of honest reverence for the wholesome integrity I am standing so close to. I can easily feel overcome, though not overwhelmed, by the intensity of the other presence.

Ultimately, a mirroring is occurring. Who I am is the “who” I am engaging with. If my self-love is healthy, we are healed by being in this space and time together. Our conjoined presence is similar to, but unlike that rare and unique bond between two lovers. However, here is no mutual exclusivity, no sworn allegiance. Here is a portal to the most precious of states, the unrestricted view of the sanctity of all living beings as seen in the mirror of one.

The validity of this vision of the presence in the round of another soul simply through eye-to-eye contact is a repeatable experience.

The more Biodanza I participated in, the more frequently I saw the living heart of myself reflected in all other hearts.

Creativity flows in dance

If you want love in your life and you want to know love as it exists in every person that you meet, bar none, let the regular practice of Biodanza be a part of your life.

My life changed for the better and forever from 2013! Thank you, Biodanza!

~ Love is present EveryNow

Infused with love

Infused with love, like tea in boiling water

Samuel Johnson’s dictum occurs to me. ‘When you’re tired of London, you’re tired of life’.

What the Great Fellow glossed over is that he assumed that we all receive life’s enjoyments as gifts from the external world – in his example it was London life.

Nowadays I can’t conceive of any momentary experience not enhanced by some sort of learning curve, all the way through my life to the end.

I ask you this.

What characterises a person who is constantly expecting to learn new things on the road, and is more often than not ambushed by the surprising amount of all the stuff available to learn on the way, provided that all senses are prepped and receptive?

One answer is a person such as this has to be in the condition of a serenely untroubled and always available openness. Also, there must be an absence of externally conditioned, self-obstructing barriers to a cat-like curiosity.

It is a wild, open, wide open alertness, a feral immediacy of awareness of sensory input, unfiltered by intellect, which is largely responsible for bringing me, my heart and my sacred spaces into contact with the EveryNow.

By now, after years of redirected attention to the minutiae of detail and to the absence of time in which details bathe, I have the capacity to hurl my awareness in there pretty much on demand.

I’m on foot, intent on my way to the bus stop, I’m looking intently out of a car window, I’m bicycling and I focus my intention on keeping upright, uninjured, staying alive.

These are some examples of the sweeping nature of the changes that I have been overtaken by these last few years, since 2013, the Year of my Life.

By self-discipline over a period of years, by making self-conscious choices in the words I choose and in what I choose to do, the most precious thing I seem have acquired is a lack!

I lack the overlay or inlay of concept, of internally verbalised labels at the point at which my senses interface with objects in the world. Think “cat”.

I have been regularly making choices – namely choosing in the first instant to tune in to the Thisness of things. The closer to Thisness, the more the love, and the more there is to love. My motivation to exercise this intensity of unblinkered enquiry has become habitual through a self-reinforcing positive feedback.

And how amazing is this “feedback” !

If I strive to melt Peter the Pilley away in order to let the fly, the flower, the star, the shining soul-light of my friend assume the entire arena of my awareness, what then?

What happens?

What is happening, with no reasons asked or given, no frown of reasoning, no intervening rationalisation obscuring the way, is that I am infused, like tea in boiling water, with love.

This is love, as axiomatic as the sun’s atomic heat, where the object of love and love itself blends into one and the same. Love and the object of love indistinguishably the same.

The essential truth, the nature, the living-beingness of everything is love. Oh, and peace-in-perpetual-motion as well, but more of that another time.

~ Love is present EveryNow