Your Presence.......

David Whyte the poet talks about the ability to hold a conversation with what comes to find us. This really requires Presence, because a lot of the time we are ducking what is coming at us....pushing it aside as though it is not really happening and focusing on whatever distracts us. This Presence is the attention we give to what we are experiencing....what is in front of us....what we feel about what is in front of us. Giving attention even to the feeling to flee or take refurge from what is jumping up and down in front of us creates the capacity to interface with everything that presents itself to us. This willingness to stay Present with ourselves no matter what gives us the capacity to go beyond the bland background noise of our lives into something more authentic and surprising....more ourselves...more generous and more courageous.......