Last week I wrote about how spaciousness is like “gliding through the day, free of friction or resistance, like the feeling you get when you’re sitting in one of those glider rocking chairs.” **
Today’s posting is my free-association version on the topic; the moments where I feel most spacious…
or just different, in a good way.
In no particular order or level of importance, here’s what spaciousness feels like to me…
- The feeling of effortless ease, like things working out perfectly without my having to try.
- That feeling when all the green lights synch up perfectly when driving across town.
- When my knees miraculously don’t hurt as I go down a set of stairs. It’s like I’ve been lubed and there’s suddenly a spring in my step that wasn’t there before.
- On a more cosmic level it’s the “ultimate lube job” where nothing sticks, jangles, rankles, shakes me up, presses my buttons, hurts, perturbs…
- That deeply satisfying feeling that comes after completing a huge multi-year project, like my book, or clicking the “Send” button on an article I’m submitting that I’m proud of…and took me forever to write.
- A feeling of being really BIG, as in big-hearted; bigger than any worry, or drama, or attachment.
- Getting into a warm bed after taking a hot salt and soda bath.
- Feeling buoyant, like the feeling of floating in the sea at the most perfect temperature.
- Working out to Kirk Franklin’s Nu Nation version of “Stomp” (Original Mix) or Jill Scott singing “Golden.”
- When a huge, burly three-hundred year old tree stops me in my tracks and takes my breath away.
- The wonder I feel when a delicate dragonfly lands on my shoulder.
- Spontaneous, unmitigated, side-splitting, out-loud laughing. Repeat episodes of I Love Lucy do it to me every time.
- Feeling held and supremely trusting in the Divine Order of things.
- And just plain happy! Uncomplicated, clean burning, freeing, sparkly JOY!
What does spaciousness feel like to you? We’d love to hear your comments on the subject!
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**Excerpt from Your Spacious Self, Chapter 45
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Stephainie, this is so beautiful a discription of spaciousness. I love it, and I am feeling this kind of energy more and more these days. It is a Grace of sorts, a naturalness that fits perfectly with being in a limited physical body. Sort of like formless spirit energy entering into a glove and exploring the joy of discovering how many things one can do when you take on the shape of a hand. Thank you . Mary B.
seeing wild ducks on a little pond.
colorful horses in winter fields
feeling the subtle texture of energy under my hands on a horse or donkey
standing next to a tree
Smiling at a stranger eye to eye
underwater
when I have time to sit and read
Love this! Thank you for sharing, kb!