Have you seen little kids carefully
Have you seen little kids carefully climbing the ladder to the diving board, pensively studying the water below and then bursting into outrageous silliness as they fling themselves into flight with all limbs flapping? That leap of faith into the swimming pool, that moment of suspension in the air, that wiggly dance of glee that the child performs above the water, is the expression of the middle moment. The middle moment sits at the center of all our activities. Kids just tend to be much better at enjoying it than we are.
We are always launching and landing, launching and landing. We initiate something with a thought and then act on it. We start something and then we finish it. We want something and then we go get it. The middle moment, the interval in between the desire and the action or the action and its fulfillment, can often eludes us. If you want a drink of water and you go get it, the middle moment is not as dramatic as it is for the child tossing himself into the deep end of the pool, but it is as loaded with potential. There is a gleeful, wiggling, flapping moment hidden within all activities.
I'm not suggesting we go flailing around, tossing ourselves over to the water cooler to find the middle moment in a drink of water. What I am saying is that it doesn't matter where you are, who you're with or what you're doing. There is always a middle moment going on and it is always rich with potential. That middle moment offers you a flight China Pipeline/POU Water Dispensers Manufacturers of freedom. If you allow it, it suspends you in the air and gives you a little chance to let your spirit glow. It's very brief so you can't afford to spend time thinking about it. All you have time to do is feel it and let yourself beam your light in whatever way it comes forth.
This is a subtle inner activity that you can master with practice. You can still act with adult-style decorum on the outside while allowing a childlike freedom and brilliance during your inner middle moments. As you practice this, you may be able to feel some space opening up in you. The energetic field around you may begin to take on a quality similar to that of the air just beyond the diving board and just above the water. By paying attention to and playing within this middle moment, you acquire a pleasing glow.
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Step 1 ? Finding It
In order to let light into your middle moments, you must have a feeling for when they are happening. Really, they are constant and depending on how you define it, any moment can be called a middle moment. Once you can dance in the perpetual middle moment you are in a continuous flight of joy. For right now, lets start by finding one middle moment at a time. Notice the time in between actions when there is nothing much for you to do. The time it takes to walk to the bathroom to brush your teeth can be one. Once you've dialed the phone and it's ringing, until the other person answers, that's another. You threw the baseball but the other person has not caught it yet.
That's another one.
Step 2 ? Jumping
Once you get a sense of when these middle moments are happening, you can start to interact with them. The next step, once you have climbed up the ladder and looked out at the water, is to jump. You climbed the ladder when you decided to get a drink of water or you stood up to go brush your teeth or you dialed the phone or threw the baseball. You got yourself to the edge of the diving board and now you can just stay there or you can jump. Jumping means letting go. It means releasing your toes from the diving board. It means releasing your hold on the need that created the desire that set you into motion. It means trusting that the process is in motion now and if even for a split second, there is nothing for you to do but be a silly happy child.
Step 3 ? Flying
This is the part we typically miss and this is the sweetest part. This is the part where the child is wiggling and flapping, suspended in mid air. How do you do that while walking to the bathroom? How can you feel that freedom while waiting for your mother to pick up the phone? All of these four steps are related to each other and in the same way that the spring of the diving board sets the child into flight, your release of whatever came before your decision to act springs you into inner flight. There may have been some sense of need or lack or obligation motivating your action. Once you have acted you can let go of all that. Release it completely. How your spirit will wiggle or flap will be unique to your middle moment.
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