As a veterinarian for some years, I’ve noticed most animals will run out of an enclosed area if given a chance. The psalmist uses the metaphor-like calves released form the stall. As a creatures that shares this planet, I find it helpful if I go outside my enclosure every 30 minutes-breath deeply about 10 times , walk for 5 minutes and go back in. Try it, you may find it freeing: use it in the Pomodor Technique.
This past summer while attending the Ira Progoff school of Intensive Journaling, it took me all week to come to a mantra or a distilling of my time there into one saying. It was a deep rumbling I couldn’t get into words until I finally did enough time in writing and walking , writing and walking. The mantra, “Open the gate, I’m going outside”, expresses a work still to be discovered in the senior part of my life. To get to this place that meant something- a habit, a discipline, of exposure to the outside is necessary for me, and then a return to the work at hand, writing my walk.
Open the gate, I’m going out, may be freedom for your work and walk.
“Each existence is engaged in finding the way of life and of being that will be true to its own nature.” (AJW, p 34) ,
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