Out-of-Control Human
Unfiltered reflections #1 - #5
#1 The life I can live is greater than the life I can control.
I wake up at night and wonder, “What would be possible if I were to take a risk to bravely and fully enter the life that’s available to me?” During the day, I daydream (and doodle) about it.
We seem to spend most of our energy decreasing what we cannot control and increasing what we can control. Control matters to us. For a good reason. This is the place where we feel safe and can make things happen—our hats off to control.
Yet, when we fully experience being here, we are out of control. Think about your sheer presence where you are right now. Life requires us to not know. When life senses our controlling grip, it withdraws a little. When life senses our courage to relinquish our sense of control as a non-negotiable condition, it offers itself. Sufis say that when we take one step toward God, God takes four steps toward us. (Forget God for a moment. This is about our ordinary life.)
Try: Remember the moments when you’ve loved being an out-of-control human. Does sex come to mind? Good, but don’t stop at the obvious. Move further, move wider.
#2 Ordinary mystics see differently.
Our steps into a safe and thriving future do not have to be as difficult as we imagined them to be. We don’t have to control the process from the start to the end. You can begin with the mystic courage of seeing differently and learning to fully inhabit a life you cannot control and do life’s work that has no competition. (More: Unfold Your Own Myth)
#3 Hummingbirds defy physics.
About hummingbirds:
The law of physics says it should be impossible for a hummingbird to fly. They are the only bird that can rotate a full circle, fly backward and upside down, and keep a perfect position in space.
They appeared 17 million years ago in a brand new habitat of the time, mid-mountain ranges with low oxygen. Yet, because their heart beats 1200/min in flight, they use more oxygen than any vertebrae proportionately to their size.
They like the sun, but they relish the rain.
Their feathers are not pigmented by any color. Rather it is their iridescence (bubbles of air) that refracts light, shadow, and change.
Blow your mind movie: Hummingbirds
Welcome to the HummingWord.
#4 Quote: “Living is a form of not being sure.”
Feel free to share this graphic:
#5 Tell us: What is one of your favorite out-of-control life experiences?
Hit reply, let me know, and I will share your replies.
My 'out of control' mystic moment(s) are childbirth. The most courageous, expanding, challenging, beautiful experience, not matter how it occurs (with a doula, by c-section, in a hospital - doesn't matter). A wise woman reassured me as I tried to control the process with a 'birth plan'... "Let it go. There's no bad way to have a healthy baby!"