#THE CURVE PROGRESSION

Moving forward is not always a straight line

Moving forward is not always a straight line. Progress does not necessarily mean going forward all the time. Growing up is not overcoming each and every obstacle. 

We function with many beliefs that we have accumulated over the years and that prevent us from having a real understanding of things. Those beliefs that tell us, for example, that our life has to have a certain, fixed, stable direction, and that we should have control over everything that happens to us, knowing at all times what we are doing.

That, although it sounds very good, does not correspond at all with reality. It happens to all of us that at some point in life we do not know where we are going, we do not know what happens or why it happens. There are stages that nothing quite works out and that, as much as we try to understand, we cannot have the faintest idea if we are on the right path, if we move in a circle or if perhaps we have lost ourselves to meet again later. . 

Accepting a situation of uncertainty

allows to face it in a way

brand new. 

In recent times that we have had to live as a society, we try to explain situations that escape our mental understanding, and that no matter how much they try to explain, they are still chaotic situations. Still, we keep hearing more and more information about it that only creates more than confusion.

But, beyond all that, what is happening to us can never be the problem, it is rather an indication of something that must be paid attention.

Time and years can give us a certain perspective on how we are doing, but the interpretation we make with our mind is always very subjective, so we cannot really trust our own thoughts.

What is certain is that they are all changes, ascents and descents like the paths in the mountains, comings and goings like the waves of the sea, movements of all kinds that over the years we are increasingly integrating, some hard to carry, others almost imperceptible, but all necessary in this constant learning.

 

All changes in themselves define our life.

And although many things that have happened to us we wish they never happened, or perhaps we want them to happen quickly, many have their time and are completely beyond our control. Some facts that truly test our level of patience in the world of speed.

However, something that can help us is to see that those same changes that occur to us also occur in others, we are not the only ones. Also, that those same changes can be observed in nature, in the wind, the sea, the land, animals, plants, their roots -Precisely, a quality of trees is that their trunks seem straight but are slightly curved to better withstand the storms-

That curved progression that has led us to where we are now, does not have to be so transcendental either because that leads us to a kind of search for perfection that does not really exist. Nor does it have to take us anywhere in particular, when the important thing is to let go and enjoy the moment more and more and the learning that takes us to a deeper level.

From there it is where we are better preparing the ground to function better in any type of situation, including not only those that have to do with the inner world of personal or spiritual growth, but also with the world of relationships, work or business. .

Progress is integrating everything, and what we have closest to putting it into practice is our own experience. From there, we can let ourselves be caught by everything that happens to us, whatever it is, and live the moment intensely from our attention.

An image that appears in my mind of the progression is  something like that of the invisible growth of a tree. To be able to close your eyes and hug that tree, slowly look up, see how all its curved branches move in slow motion through space and feel the leaves vibrate with the wind. Contemplating how all that tree dances to the sound of the environment looking for the sky, with which-surely-he has fallen completely in love.

And when you pay attention, it happens that you are so involved in what happens that you do not want to miss anything, in slow motion, like when you watch a movie that leaves you completely trapped. At that moment you don't care whether that movie is a drama or a comedy. Somehow, we managed to stop time, that time that a moment ago required me to ask myself a lot of things, analyze problems, find solutions. 

Now there is only this, and here there is nothing more than this. Lifetime. Adventure. Enjoyment. Pain. Anxiety. Despair. Me and it what happens.

When we make us aware of what is not happening, everything changes, everything acquires a deeper dimension since we are inviting our mind to be alert and opening our senses to the world. This allows us to be more alive with the movements that happen around us and to integrate more in what happens to us, and, in this way, to be able to understand it better.

Unfortunately, many of the day-to-day situations and work place a lot of stress on us and do not create an environment conducive to that natural process of attention, but that inertia can be changed.

When we can have some kind of difficulty putting it into practice in everyday life, we can try, for example, to surround ourselves with calmer environments: Walking along a winding path in a forest, noticing the air as it enters the lungs, the warm light of the sun reflected in the face, the relaxing sound of the birds, the intense aroma of pineapple and the fresh air. Begin to really relax feeling all the space that surrounds the visual scene ...

Integrating all these elements - sights, sounds, textures, smells, flavors - in an open way, is an experience similar to the image of the cinema, where we are attentive to what happens to us but at the same time what happens there is more equal, letting ourselves be carried away by the movements of the present moment.

Feeling the experience in a full, simple and direct way is a direction that we put on our part with our attention, and that will manifest little by little in everything. And not only in calmer situations such as in nature or when we are alone at home, but in the many times demanding workday or in environments surrounded by many people.

Living in the moment I can relax by being myself, and in that process, I also allow myself to relax more the situation whatever the form it is taking in that moment. There is the challenge. Without trying to change or modify it; without pretending to be anything to anyone; without waiting for the years to make me a better person, richer or more spiritual; without hoping not to fail anyone; without pretending to have a happy life in the eyes of others …

 

The moment allows me to accept that fallible and human part that we all have.

And what brings us closer to being with ourselves naturally is being more and more aware of the present moment. Spend time getting to know parts that only we can get to know. Nobody else. And when we dedicate that time, when we give attention to ourselves, nothing can go wrong and we can be better prepared for anything.

Difficulties can then be our best ally and not our worst enemy. Only we decide...

If difficulties appear, we can approach them in a different way, letting ourselves be guided more by inner intuition, which never deceives us in this process to relativize things more, to feel more from within, to love without rules, without maps, without direction. more than that indicated by our own heart, a path that is often full of curves, but which is free like life itself.