Message from the Wheel: You are being Watched
The key to natural confidence & connection with everything

by Alan Steinborn

Welcome Home!

This was the message I got this morning.

Stop this moment and consider who/what welcomed me home
so lovingly and you will understand why this is such a big deal.

By considering who welcomed me home, you might get a key
to total, natural confidence; an internal rootedness and peace
that you can enjoy in any situation.

I will tell you in a story.

I am writing this from the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

I am on a retreat.

I am breathing in fresh air, going on mountain hikes, sitting silently for
hours, eating fresh raw food and I am beginning to feel brand new again!

There is a medicine wheel here.

First thing every morning I walk to the medicine wheel, remove my shoes and let my feet commune
with the earth as I walk through tall grass on the damp earth from big boulder to big
boulder; that is from south to west to north to east and back to south.

As I don't know much about Native American culture, I simply walk the medicine wheel
and stop at each boulder and listen to a quiet voice inside which tells me what to do.

This morning I went into a yoga pose in the south boulder.

At the west boulder I went into deep prayer.

At the north boulder I simply stood there with my hands on my heart.

At the east boulder I ran in circles around it while screaming like a crazy kid.

Then as I returned to the south boulder I heard my inner voice telling me to look back into the
medicine wheel and see if I see something different.

So I turned around and looked back into it.

At first I saw nothing different than before and a small wave of disappointment passed
through me like a far away cry.

I kept looking.

Suddenly I noticed something subtle in the tall grass in front of me.

The grass had a presence which was watching me.

The grass was watching me!

I quickly looked to the trees.

There was a presence in the trees watching me too!

My eyes darted here and there in wonderment.

Everywhere I looked I was being watched by invisible beings expressing themselves
through the environment: the grass, trees, birds, sky, clouds, sunshine, etc.

The whole earth was attending to me!

I didn't feel intense joy or bliss at this discovery.

What I did feel was a deep sense of safety and connection with my body and environment.

Do you know what it is to feel like you belong exactly where you are?

Have you ever experienced that everything around you is applauding your existence?

It is sweet!

And it is for you!

And you know it!

You can experience this.

Today watch for what it is in other people that is watching you.

Pay attention to attention itself!

See if you can greet those that are waiting to greet you, but haven't yet been noticed!

It may be in another person, it may be in a tree, it may be in a door knob!!!

You will discover that you are never alone!

I offer training and coaching to facilitate this process.

I invite you to join us in the adventure of discovery of your most powerful treasure--
the power of your personal presence and your ineffable connection with all that is!

Yours in Presence,

Alan

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