Photo:  Ashes and Snow

Being animal is the hardest thing to sustain in the digital maelstrom.  Leaving the body is so easy . . .

Here’s a simple way to re-enter the animal body.  Even with your fingers on the keyboard, close your eyes and feel your paws resting on the landscape of the keys.  Breathe in and notice what you are smelling.  What do you hear?  Sounds far, sounds near.  Notice the exact position of your feet, your spine, your tongue.

I think that being animal demands that we cultivate prey sense – the way a horse attunes to every signal – it is protection.  All the senses ask:  where is the danger?  For the predator, it is more of a map.  All the senses ask: where is the food?  When I drop in this way, all of my senses ask:  where am I?

What do your senses ask?