A dear friend of mine introduced me to the following in her yoga class: There is nowhere we have to go, there is nothing we have to do. At that time it was meant to focus our attention on the moment and it worked.
Since then I’ve used it on many occasions: like a good tool it pops into my mind when I most need it, often when I am unaware that I need it – which makes it an excellent tool!
I’ve found that affirmations, or whatever you want to call them, are like that. They start in the mind as words and then take on a life of their own. They expand from the area of the mind into the feeling part of us and then they become magnets for what we want or need.
There is nowhere I have to go, nothing I have to do. Years ago I understood it on one level. Months ago I understood it on another level. Weeks ago I – well, you get the idea. Now I see it as not only providing a space of calm, of focus but allowing for the vacuum into which comes the awareness that the here and now is the here and now. And that’s it. And that’s perfect.
Now there’s someplace I have to go and something I have to do. And that’s perfect. Because it has come from the space of the “nowhere” and the “nothing.”