A TCC Way Through The Day

A device to remember the sequence of movements

By Michele R. Dapelo, Baltimore, Maryland

From my resting pose, I step out into my day with a rocking motion as I awaken like a bird slowly rustling its feathers. Then suddenly the bird flaps its wings; it is in flight. I too am aware and alert; the day has begun.

My day takes me up and down then round and round in a flurry of activities that move me in circles around the platter of my tasks – only to go some more around the platter in a variation. It has been so hectic my heart is beating like a bass drum and I decide to pause in my day.

I peer up at the beauty of the daughter on the mountaintop and then gaze over the tranquil daughter in the valley. I am grateful for their gifts of inspiration and solitude in my day.

Now feeling both serene and energized, I, and my day, enthusiastically move along. Sometimes I carry the ball to the side, at other times I feel the push pull of the day’s flow, yet always, I am pulling in the energy, and thankfully so.

Sometimes a day can place you in a sticky situation, sort of like pulling taffy. The day’s events can stretch you mighty thin, feeling like you are weighted pulling taffy with an anchor variation, encompassed pulling taffy with a wrist circle variation and ultimately pulling taffy in perpetual motion. These taffy situations are challenging and stimulating work … much like working the pulley.

So much doing, maybe too much effort; then suddenly a light at the top of the head, I have a bright idea. I can reenergize at the day’s end by going to the light at the temple … or taking a joyous breath … or simply watching the passing clouds. If I remain still, I can even hear the mystifying six healing sounds all around me: ho (ho) >>> hu (who) >>> szu (tsue) >>> hsu (shuh) >>> his (shi) >>> chui (chwee).

As my day settles down, heaven and earth come together in a cosmic consciousness pose. I am bathed in quiet. And in stillness and peace I appreciate balanced and circulated energy. What a deep joy within me. And, like a bubbling spring, this joy, peace and love can gently flow out to others.