The rain drops forming puddles. With each splash of the rain and ripples that follow, the pool returns to balance. Every adjustment is graceful, smooth and effortless. This is our natural order when we allow it and is an example of the microcosm within the macrocosm. We are each expanding as new bits of data come in. We feel the effect, or change and then we adapt to become a new being. The adjustments are quite small, but it is from the deeper and still place that all transmutation happens first. This self-balancing place is the emotional realm, and it is the mediator between the physical and mental planes of existence. From it we find our ambiguity, where more can be said with less being said
I have a great love for fast change. 0 MPH to 60MPH is my favorite part of driving a car. The rate of change in growth is likewise something I live for. These noticeable and accelerated growths are admirable and should be appreciated, but most of our adaptation happens incrementally. Unless we are documenting every moment of our lives, a lot of our transformation is imperceptible. It is actually from these that those larger adaptations take form. Those grandiose “aha” moments that we experience as things click into place, are not from a lack of development. They are a moment where all of the small changes are coming together in a way where we notice it. We are in truth constantly evolving and this happens in an understated way first. It may take some time for our conscious awareness to catch up.
These changes are from the mental manifesting into the physical. It is our Subtle Body that feels the incremental shifts, and helps us adapt. It is most likened to water and is something we can tune into in meditation, stillness, or in flow states. Our mental faculty creates the world with ideas and it is our emotional reality that fills them. If we are desiring a night out with friends, we use our brains to plan it, call the people up, and book the restaurant. When we are actually experiencing it, we are touching a place inside that feels into it as real and not just as a concept. We can think of how wonderful hugs are. They are not solely tangible as bodies coming together, there is something deeper there going on. Nor is it as discerning as the parts of us that can do math or a sudoku puzzle. It is vague by definition ( or lack there of) but is something we all experience.
Not only is this felt as a body or deep space within us, but we explore it with our words as well. By being ambiguous in conversation, we fill the space. If I tell you every detail of the concert I went to last night, you yourself do not get to experience it or sense it with your imagination. By saying just enough to convey meaning, without over detailing, I invite the person I speak with to share in that moment in a new light. It looks like saying one thing, and allowing the meaning to take many forms. It is poetry in motion. Some of our wisest teachings follow this form. The less that is said, the more that can be created. It is in the silence between words, that knowing is shared.
Our subtle sense is truly like water. If you try to grasp water, you lose it. To work with it, one needs a steady hand and a loose grip. You feel for it and relax into the current. This is the art of nuance. It is the mediator of the other senses like our physical bodies and our mental worlds. From it we are able to fill our moments with meaning and a sense of connection, as others are able to participate with their own understanding. The more we are aware of it, the more we see that same nature in all of the world around us. and that is when we begin to see more of the Creator’s hand at play.
All the Love,
Ryan Orion
Fasting Notes:
Today I went to a float spa for a deep meditation. While the experience and the journey there were wonderful, the float experience felt rather short. I fell asleep almost immediately. I was awake for the shower both before and after and enjoyed them wonderfully. After more than a week of using One Wipe Charlies for my bathing ability, having running water over my body has been incredible. 5 hours of bus travel and waiting were well worth it.
The importance of having a mission is truly powerful. Knowing I was getting up and going to the spa motivated every step of my day and energized me constantly. My goal now is then to have more missions in my day. “He who has a ‘why’ for which to live can bear almost any ‘how.’” Friedrich Nietzsche
Ryan Orion 
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