Waiting Without Knowing What You’re Waiting For

Have you ever felt like something was about to happen? Like something just beyond the horizon is set to happen for you at any moment. Sometimes it happens so suddenly and you’re not sure whether to feel excited or nervous. I feel like that often. I get jittery and anxious. Then, I’m just left waiting. Not sure why, but I think I am gaining a pretty good perspective, an idea, of what’s causing me to feel that way.

This type of waiting feels uncomfortable. Who in the world ever feels completely happy and satisfied, not knowing what to expect? Humans are so regimented. We need structure and we don’t like surprises. When things don’t have a timeline, we can’t prepare. We can’t place it on a calendar, and we can’t place it on our to-do list. While our bodies recognize that something is coming, it causes mood shifts and our attention drifts. For many, this is our intuition surfacing.

A Kind Rebirth understands that whenever a new direction begins to unfold before us, there is a moment or season that heightens our senses. And in those moments, we have to listen carefully to whatever it is and its desire to emerge. In some actualities, we are making space for a truth that we have not fully realized, thus we cannot articulate.

While we are in this space of patient waiting, our mindfulness practice is less about being productive in its normal fashion. Here, it is asking us to rest and open our minds and be prepared to receive. In short, it’s about receptivity. While we are here, we should consider staying open to what’s preparing to arrive without forcing an answer or proclaiming assumption. This is a pathway to learning trust, even when we cannot see it with our own eyes yet.

The world will always tell you to hurry up and figure it out, but what’s inside of us, our inner being, knows much better. Let’s let things arrive on their own time as in many cases, things can only land when there is space on the runway.

Stay mindful…

Rebirth