Moving with gentleness…

Listening within my own heart-mind, this time of the year I move with gentleness. I think its secretly been whispering more and more to me and now I surrender into its flow. This is part of my nature-essence, this gentleness that dances within all of my senses. A part where I surrender to all control and Just be. Not no forever to do lists, which are unachievable or pushing in directions that don’t seem to flow.

I think when we give in and don’t resist to what will be, life just seems to have this natural ease and order.

I really love the Japanese concept ‘Kokoro’ (AI overview), meaning heart, mind and spirit, encompassing emotions, thoughts, and the essence of a person, rather than just the physical organ. It signifies inner feelings, intentions, character, and consciousness, essential in philosophy, martial arts and everyday life, representing a person’s unique inner self and their connection to others, making it a complex idea difficult to translate with a single English word.

I visited my home city ‘London’ recently and saw the Nutcracker in ballet, their was something inside of me watching it that reminded me of my own ‘kokoro’ and a reminder of my own journey with ballet as a child. the gracefulness, elegance, calmness, peacefulness it brings and this inner joy. Their was the gentle presence within the audience and it really did remind me of all the things that really matter. It’s funny last year I really wanted to learn ballet, and never got round to getting a pair of ballet shoes and so on my trip in London was a pair of ballet shoes I finally purchased.

I hope you get to find your gentleness on yourself this Winter and find your ‘Kokoro’.