Listening To The Rhythms
Have you noticed the flow of things? The way life moves. It is very much alive. Never settling, always moving. One way to embrace this truth is to simply dance with it. Spontaneous movement is extremely powerful when letting it just happen. There is no fixed form, but only flow. One movement leads to another and another. No past, no future. Only the movement of the Now in which everything is.
The brain tends to grasp this stream and divides it up into different moments. But that is only a post truth, an individual perspective of how life unfolded. It is a way of dealing with the ungraspable and an organic system that is very much limited in the way it can process wholeness. There is nothing wrong with that, it is simply how things are. But problems may begin when that limitation is not seen. Or one identifies with sliced up moments that are essentially dead - that have passed (or we simply cannot access with our brains anymore).
Lately I have listened a lot to Ian McGilchrist and his view on how the brain functions with two brain hemispheres. The left and the right - with the right being responsible for our left side of our body and vice versa. While the left hemisphere divides, categorizes and focuses on things, the right can grasp more fully, can see connections, understands and gives meaning. It is a much more holistic way of operating, yet without the left hemisphere we would be incapable of surviving and navigating the world. It makes sense that life would have evolved in this way (as we share this organic blueprint with animals as well), since Life and the universe is a movement, but as organic beings situated in it, we also need to survive. Survival, however, is very much a mode contributed to how the left hemisphere works: we need to build things, remember things, look at the parts to see how they work. All things, which the right hemisphere isn't good at.
Perhaps the biggest challenge that comes with modernity is that our so called modern life is dominated by a left brain operating mode that not only shifts focus on dissecting the world we live in, but also accelerates the isolation and disassociation that this way of thinking creates in the first place. We may tend to deny or downplay the bigger all encompassing truth, but it is clearly there when we shift to a more right centered way of living. How would our world look like when we collectively shift to a right centered mode without dismissing the vital importance of the left hemisphere that is necessary for navigating the world? Perhaps things would flow more naturally again?
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You describe how I feel when I am doing Tai Chi. I have to focus on the movement of the now, while being very aware of static balance, or I stumble. It uses both sides of the brain at once.
Is that your drawing? Also reminds me of Tai Chi...
Unfortunately it is AI. I have yet to pick up the brush again.
I also do Tai Chi, it is one of those things that sticks with me throught life since it is so straightforward to practicing it and is so beneficial.
You write something that zooms into the outer worlds