The Cosmic Baseball Bat

There was a time — a long time ago — when someone told me that when the Universe has a message for us — for instance because we are making choices that, in one way or another, take us away from your chosen path — it will in all likelihood first gently tap us on the shoulder. If we fail to notice this, the Universe may progress to sticking us with a cocktail pick… Annoying perhaps, but by no means painful. And after all, it is just a way to get our attention. To get us to listen to this message that apparently is quite important to us.

If we are still not paying attention, and when the message is important enough, chances are that the “attention getter” is being ramped up from there, until finally we find ourselves being hit by the proverbial “Cosmic Baseball Bat”.

And that, then, usually will get our attention…

The next step is to figure out what the important message entails. In other words, what you have to do to get back on your path — and perhaps even to get an understanding of how you have come to make these decisions that took you away from your path in the first place…

Now, when I set out to ride my bike, enjoying the sunshine, nature, and the prospect of meeting with friends — none of this was on my mind… And while I may have had a somewhat nagging feeling of something being not quite the way it should be, or perhaps a semi-conscious thought of something that wasn’t quite right… My focus was well and truly on enjoying the day as it unfolded.

And then, as I almost got to where I wished to go, it hit me… The Cosmic Baseball Bat…

Listen! You know. And you know you know… Now act accordingly!!

It got my attention. I am listening…

And with that, insights are beginning to surface. And as they do, I can suddenly see how the puzzle pieces all fit together. And before long the picture emerges that has been eluding me for so long… It is not unexpected. It is not hard to bring into being. It is even easy to see how everything is fitting together — now that I actually see the picture — into one image.

Imagine that!

Now, while everything has turned out for the best, I truly intent to — next time the Universe has a message for me — to pick up on the gentle tap on the shoulder… To pay attention right away, and to change direction well before I would get hit by the Cosmic Baseball Bat…

Cycles Upon Cycles

While we may have a tendency to keep our eye on the clock in our day to day lives — doing things at certain times, setting and keeping our appointments, and so on — we may also find that somehow we find ourselves disconnected from… Yeah, from what exactly?

That, sometimes faint sense of feeling disjoint from what is happening, that at other times may be right “in your face” as time seems too have disappeared before you could blink your eyes…

Looking at that, it seems that pretty much everything in our environment does not pay any attention to the clock at all. Our environment functions in cycles. It is us that try and organize our lives according to time…

Granted, setting a time makes it a lot easier to meet with people. At least the chance of all meeting up at the same moment increases enormously…

On the other hand, when we focus on the cycles upon cycles that are there, time suddenly seems a lot less important. Perhaps this is because the number of cycles we encounter — and their interaction with each other and with us — can get complicated in a hurry.

Breathing may well be the easiest cycle we can touch — simply creating in and breathing out — and yet, when we slow our breathing, that other rhythm that is paramount within our bodies, our heart rhythm, may slow also.

In our environment, the obvious rhythm may be day and night — light and dark. It is a rhythm that interacts with the rhythm of the seasons, as days are longer during summer, and shorter during winter — at least in most places. The seasons then, are part of the rhythm of the earth circling the sun.

Another obvious rhythm in our environment is the rhythm of the moon, creating the ebb and flow in the waters of the earth…

So, here we are…

We are having the rhythm of our heartbeat and our breathing that interact with the rhythm of day and night — something we may recognize in being a morning person or an evening person. Roughly 28 cycles of day and night create the cycle of the moon. About 13 cycles of the moon create the cycle of the earth moving around the sun — and this cycle is in a sense divided into the 4 cycles of the seasons, that each with their own focus and energy are guiding us on our path through life…

And from the perspective of our uniquely individual path through life, each and every cycle that we encounter is not a circle, but rather a spiral — the symbol for growth… 

It places us in a situation where every beat of our heart, every breath we take, is an opportunity to express our potential and make it count! And to grow as a result of that expression.