Attuning

By Callie Mahoney

Moving towards the New Year here in Paris, we’ve felt the shift as the cold settles and daylight softens. Early risers walk through the hushed morning in a world that seems to have slowed to the pulse of the season. Days have shortened and nights’ curtain falls before we’ve completed our endless missions. It almost feels as if, with a divine touch, Nature reached down and paused this constant spinning; decelerating our usual manic rhythms.

Our Earth Mother is nudging us to embrace this time to realign with the deep rhythms that are our primal knowing. It is an intuitive permission to decelerate, rest, release, and surrender all that can be left undone.

Entrusting a pause of our pressing engagements or unrealistic stacks of goals and achievements, may initially be met with resistance as we continue to search for distraction and occupations. In this transition from activity to stillness we guide ourselves toward a state of conscious observation. Bringing attention to habitual patterns allows a softened filtering to occur clearing space to enjoy subtle perceptions with more interest.

Each mindful thought is a step towards attuning ourselves with the omnipresent elemental cycles. Inviting instead of fighting natural rhythms, can open us to our innate inner guide and lead us to personal balance.

As we enter a new cycle we may begin by reviewing the areas of our life where we feel discord and making note of what would allow us to bring them into harmony. We may even practice writing down a few notes as a daily reminder to guide us back into synchronicity with our natural balance.

Attunement transforms the mundane into sacred acts of living in harmony with the world within and around us. In these sacred moments of stillness may your practice attune you to your hearts prayer.