Everyone has a favorite time of day, and mine is Sunset. It is when the mountains turn pink at that exact moment the sun is about to set. I like to time my life around that moment to feel perfectly alive, and in tune with the aspects of nature. This moment is a touchstone of my life, something I have observed in my most fortunate moments, and there is an awesome awareness of being alive in those precious moments.
Ideally, we are all 'in the moment' all the time, yet this tends to be an allusive state of being, one which our brains want to sabotage as soon as we are there. Can you feel the peace of just being?
Another touchstone of aliveness, that I created for my own 'peaceful, benign superstition, is to see the constellation Orion in the night sky. When I see the Hunter Orion, with his belt, his outline of four bright star-points, and the Pleiades (the pale stars of the Seven Sisters) that are part of this constellation which can be seen out of your 'side sight'--not directly looking at them--I just know that everything is Okay. There is nothing wrong with the world, or me, or you, or anything, it just Is What It Is, and peace is deep inside, accessible, tangible.
No matter what happens peace is right there for you by just letting go of being wrong or right. Let go and just be.
What touchstones do you have that bring you to awareness of your aliveness in the moment?
