Fully

How present are we?

I just got a reminder from my morning smoothie.

Most every day, I blend up a concoction of juice (fresh coconuts picked myself, when I’m in Florida), green powder and spices.

Then I raise my glass and bless it.

Then I chug!

The first couple of swallows go fast. I’m usually hungry, and there’s a reason they call it break-fast.

Back to the blessing; this is a decades old ritual for me. I bless all the ingredients, balance and cancel out any low vibrations in the mix, give thanks to all the plants and food, and invite it fully into me, to energize and activate the cells within me. (Sometimes the vision of the smoothie circulating in my body and blessing my cells is so energizing, I find myself dancing!)

And THEN I gulp.

Sometimes I’m in a hurry, and automatically say the blessing, reciting it as a mantra without any feeling. A part of me (left brain) has been convinced that this rote repeating is (almost) as powerful as when I pause and actually feel what I’m saying.

Its the same with a greeting; they’re either perfunctory, or we bring ourselves fully to the moment, pausing and looking into each other’s eyes.

Its either knowledge or experience, ordinary or divine. Taking that moment is divine.

What happens as we take that moment and truly greet the personalities of our day?

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