A wild life is a present life

A wild life is a present life. A present life is a wild life.

What does it mean when we say we are living a wild life?  Re-wilding our life?  It means many things to many people.  It is buzzing around.  That is important, the buzzing.  We have become so lost from our contact with the natural elements, fibers, textures that we emerged out of.  So yes, I am glad re-wilding is buzzing around.

When we are wild, in the wild, of the wild, a component of that is being right there.  Right in the midst of whatever is alive in the woods, in the sky, below the earth.  We are sensing, hearing, seeing, smelling and touching it all.  When we are immersed in the wild our senses are alive.  We are noticing it all as it unfolds, this life, in the wild.

This is the same for meditation or mindfulness.  What we are fundamentally going for is the ability to notice what is arising, right now.  In our senses and without.   We tune into our sensations in the body.  We tune into the sounds we hear.  We tune into what runs through the landscape of our mind. We notice it all with alive presence.  With curiosity.

Presencing is what we do when we are in the wild.  Wilding is what we do when we meditate.  When we bring them together we are living a wild life - sensing into this very moment to see what is here whether it is in nature or in our kitchen.  We slow down.  We sense. We notice.  We welcome.

So, are you wanting to build mindfulness into your life?  Go out into the wild.  Are you wanting to have more wildness in your life? Sit down and meditate.  Bring them together and meditate in the wild.  Walk in the wild.  Stomp around in the wild.  Listen in the wild.  Sit in the wild.  Sit and sit and sit in stillness in the wild and notice the deep aliveness within and without that is all around.  That you and I are deeply embedded within - our web of nature and consciousness abounding.