Learn How To Drink, To Taste The Nectar
One recent morning in Hawaii, as my wife wandered with her camera, drawn again and again to the quiet glory of each flower, I found myself worried about sweating thru my clothes. How’s that for mindfulness? She was invited, perhaps twenty-five times, to see each one and capture their beauty. I could feel her enthusiasm, if not more, than to see the flowers myself.
What struck me later, as I reviewed her camera roll, was the realization that beauty is always there, always available, and yet how often I move past it, too hurried, too distracted to taste its nectar.
What a world of miracles we live in! Not just in faraway places, but in the shape of a petal, in the sound of a breeze, in the love behind the lens of someone willing to see it, my wife.
Can I just sit and be with it all? Can I allow the moment to be enough? Yes, and it’s not easy. To sit in presence means to set down my agenda. It means to risk being touched. It means opening the senses and the heart to what is, rather than what I wish would be and that’s not comfortable. I still find it so interesting that part of me is unwilling to be that vulnerable.
Mindfulness asks for nothing more than presence, but that presence is everything. It is a radical act of returning to the breath, to the wonder, to the now.
I find mindfulness meditation supports my intention to learn how to drink, to taste the nectar ....if only for a moment.
Mondays & Thursdays
12:15 – 12:45 pm
Room 407 @ Second Presbyterian Church
7700 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46260
or
Zoom! - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83998337582
Meeting ID: 839 9833 7582 - Password: 672891
Join others in Mindfulness Meditation on Mondays and Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Brief discussion, followed by silent practice and concluding with observations, comments or wonderings. Take refuge in the present moment. Mindfulness Meditation is the opportunity to rest in Presence in a supportive environment with others. No experience, fee or registration is necessary.
P. Scott Sweet, LCSW, LCAC
Executive Director
CenterPoint Counseling