Vieglu dienas gājumiņu

 

Rīta meditācija.  Vai pie saulītes, vai pie svecītes šajā gada laikā - noskaņoties dienai gaišumā un vieglumā ir zelta vērts.  

Nesen man atplauka jauna saprašana par vārdu 'viegls'.  Bieži vien tautas dziesmās lūdzam Laimai vieglumiņu, un man tas vienmēr lasijās ka pretstats grūtumam.  Bet mēs taču zinām, ka izaugsme nāk no izaicinājumiem - nevajag visu laiku ne-grūto.  Pēkšņi es sapratu, ka viegls ir arī pretstats smagumam.  Lūdzot vieglumu darbā vai vieglu mūžu, varbūt tas nav par to, ka nebūtu izaicinājumi un viss tik ritētu gludi, bet par mūsu attieksmi - kā mēs pieejam esošam.  Vai ar smagumu, vai ar vieglumu?  

Kad izaicināju sevi skriet maratonu (nu labi, 6K - bet priekš manis jebkāda skriešana bija GRŪTA), es ātri sapratu, ka viss noskaņojas manā prātiņā.  Ja es domāju smagas domas, smagas jūtas virmos caur mani, un viss ķermenis kļūst smags - tad izaicinājums tiešām ir grūts.  Ja es domāju vieglas domas (man par palīgu nāca tauriņi, kas viegli jo viegli man lidoja blakus un rādija tieši kā to jādara), uzreiz virmoja vieglums un pēkšņi arī ķermenis klūva viegls un laimīgs.  

Tālāk ir jāpiedomā angļu valodā - ja latviski jēdzieni viegls (ne-grūts) un viegls (ne-smags) dala vienu vārdiņu, tad angliski jēdzieni viegls/light (ne-smags) un gaisma/light (ne-tumšs) dala vienu vārdiņu.  Tā man jau šie trīs jēdzieni ir saplūduši kopā, kā viena bizīte ar šķipsnām, kas visas kopā veido to 'vieglumiņu' pēc kā mēs tiecamies, balstoties uz gaišumu un ne-smagumu, kas tad padara izaicinājums ne-grūtus, bet izaugsmes pilnus!

Morning meditation.  With the sun or by candlelight this time of year - tuning oneself toward light and lightness is a golden use of time.

Recently, a new understanding of the Latvian word 'viegls' dawned on me.  Often in folk songs, we ask Laima (the goddess of fate and good fortune) for 'vieglums', to which I always attached the meaning 'easiness' or 'ease', the opposite of difficult.  But we know that growth comes from challenges - we don't need ease or easiness all the time.  Suddenly I remembers that 'viegls' also means 'light', the opposite of heavy.  When asking for 'vieglums' in our work or our fate, maybe it isn't about not wanting challenges or wishing for a completely smooth and uneventful path in life, maybe it is about our approach to life and how we regard our situation.  Am I approaching life with heaviness, or with lightness?

When I challenged myself to run a marathon (ok, it was a 6K - but absolutely any amount of running was DIFFICULT for me), I quickly understood how much 'tuning' happened in my own mind.  If I thought difficult and heavy thoughts, heavy feelings coursed through me and my whole body grew heavy - then the challenge really was hard and heavy.    If I my thoughts grew lighter (and I was lucky enough to have butterflies come to my aid as teachers, fluttering along beside me showing me exactly how to envelop myself in lightness), I instantly felt the lightness course through me and my body followed suit, growing light and joyful.  

Further, I considered the connections of words in English.  If in Latvian easiness (not difficult) and lightness (not heaviness) share one word, then in English the concept of light (not heavy) and light (not dark) share one word.  So these three concepts have flowed together into one for me, like a braid with three strands, that form the notion of 'vieglums' that we are striving for, rooted in lightness (not darkness and not heaviness), making challenges light (not heavy and not unreasonably difficult), but sources of growth! 

I stood in the early morning

Turning toward the sun,

So that the sun would give me

VIEGLUMS (lightness and lightness!) for the day's journey.

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