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.