Life’s Natural Rhythms

Nature has a natural rhythm that provides cues for season’s changes. Such as when flowers bloom, and when it’s time for red and brown leaves to fall from trees. Or when the Monarch Butterflies make their annual return to Mexico for the winter. The rhythm also orchestrates when day turns to night, just as our own inner rhythm is attuned to this universal sense of timing. Guided by the rising and setting of the sun, changes in temperature, and our internal rhythm, we know when it is time to sleep, eat, or be active. Our minds and spirits are free to focus on other pursuits, but our breath and heartbeat are always there to remind us of life’s pulsing rhythm moving within and around us. If we move to this rhythm, we should be able to recognize when it is time to cease working and when to rest. Unfortunately, many of us push our bodies to work beyond their natural rhythms, diminishing our ability to renew and recharge. This moves us into a feeling much like jet lag letting us know that we’ve overridden our own natural rhythm. When we feel the frantic call of all we want to accomplish, impelling us to move faster than is natural for us, we may want to breathe deeply and look at nature moving to its own organic timing. With birds and butterflies flying south, leaves shedding, or snow falling, a walk in nature can also let us re-align to her organic rhythm, while allowing us to move back and retune with our own. When we move to our natural rhythm, we can achieve all we need to do with less effort. We may even notice that our soul moves to its own internal, natural rhythm especially when it comes to our personal evolution. Comparing ourselves to others is unnecessary. Our best guide is to move to our own internal timing, while keeping time with the rhythm of nature.

From my Heart to Yours,
Rev. Addae