Grounded to Fly - Day 7

Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday! Here I am in my home in Atenas, Costa Rica with my almost everyday morning mate, after my almost everyday smoothie and almost everyday tortillas with cheese, avocado and spicy sauce. Mmmmm! I want seconds! Also, this morning I did my yoga session and sent some prayers to the universe so the floods in the Austin, TX stop and so my brother Chris and Marynes can get married under the nice shiny Sun on Saturday. If you can send some prayers that way that would be amazing. At the end is the suggested prayer that you can focus on. I also went to the bathroom to do number two, which felt great, and took a shower. Now I am writing here. After this I will be ready to tackle the routine.

Routine and creation station.

 

As you can read, this is what I try to do every morning of a routine day, and by routine day I mean days in which I have do work for my work. Basically, I do a routine in the morning so I can then step into the work day’s routine. The yoga and the writing are new parts in my morning routine and I LOVE them! For any of you that have not tried yoga or tried it but did not stay with it, I encourage you to look into it. Find a place in your area to practice it and if you can find a good teacher that teaches you the meaning of every pose, the better. Yoga changed my life. After I practice it I feel more rooted, heart centered and mind focused. It is the best body, heart, mind, spiritual practice I have done.

Regarding routine, there are great things about this and some non-great things about this in my opinion. One challenge is when we “HAVE” to stick to the routine and our mind and body are somewhere else or want to be somewhere else. Another challenge is the opposite, when we are anxious or scared and we do not have a routine to anchor ourselves in. Remember creating our environments? A routine in my case is a great anchor. A sequence of events that keep me grounded. This being said, sometimes I just want to fly and not be grounded, like a crow in la Quebrada de los Cuervos in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay.
 

With Elkita, Quebrada de los Cuervos, Treinta y Tres, Uruguay

Quebrada de los Cuervos, Treinta y Tres, Uruguay

 

I have noticed that week days are normally more mechanic, more structured, there is more routine and we go through the motions, hopefully still creating things, and we don’t leave space for many outside events to come in and rattle us. We are in it. The weekends or holidays are different. If I take long holidays I adapt to the non-routine or I even create a new holiday routine, but as I mentioned before when the weekend comes and I have been in a routine and now the routine is broken, I have to get a hold of myself and then fly with it.

In the macro view of my life. Routine grounds me so I can then have non-routine which gives me the freedom to fly, explore and let my mind be creative. I like to live between routine and non-routine. This is in tune with a teaching my friend Beto gave me regarding how the Candombe drums interact with each other and reality. The Candombe is formed by 3 drums, the Chico, Repique y Piano. The Chico screams into the sky or flies, the Piano maintains the wisdom or is the ground and the Repique dances freely between both of them creating the new earth.  I will focus on creating an environment that allows me to live like this.


Prayer for Austin and Chris and Marynes' wedding.

Please Being, slow down the floods in Austin and keep the people safe.
Let the sun shine on Saturday May the 30th so Chris and Marynes can get married under its light.
Thanks

Marynes and Chris