Meaningful movement: Taking queues from the worlds around us

Posted on January 10, 2021 by james falcon, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

When I think of movement, I can’t help but to reflect on a conversation that I had with my father many, many years ago. Thankfully my Dad was a big science geek and he was very well-read on many topics. My Dad and I would talk for hours-well he would talk, I would listen and take notes about the wonders of space. I remember one conversation when he told me that our galaxy, with all of it’s moving components, was itself, moving through space at a very high rate of speed. That conversation has been churning in my brain for nearly 30 years. As human beings, we are biproducts of movement. We are agents of movement. We are designed for and well acquainted with, movement. The planet on which we live is moving, spinning rapidly on its axis as it rotates our sun. There are systems, worlds filled with movement all around us. Some are visible. Others are invisible. There are particles: atoms and molecules that are constantly moving. Particles that are colliding, slowing down, speeding up, changing states. Steadily moving. And, their movements are with purpose. There are reasons for their movements. Their movements serve a purpose. They are meaningful. Magic.
Our dear planet is made up of mostly water-billions upon billions of gallons of water that are continuously moving, rising, receding, evaporating. Just above us are massive jet streams of air that blow across those waters and across continents, and at times, adversely affect the planet’s inhabitants below. And the list of things that move can be made and could go on and on at great length. But, with all that movement, the thing that amazes me in ways I can barely articulate, is the fact that we as a species, seem to be one of the planet’s-one of the universe’s only bodies that struggle intensely at times with getting into motion and with staying in motion when it comes to certain things. Things like setting and pursuing goals. Experts tell us that 2 of the top reasons people don’t attain the goals they set are because they fail to get started or they give up along the way for lack of motivation or lack of a support system. In either case, does anyone find that incredibly problematic that we-the beings with the higher intellectual capacities, we the beings that have observed, categorized, and labeled all of the aforementioned movement still struggle with movement ourselves? When you really unpack this, you come to grips with the fact that human beings as they age, actually seek a state of existence with less and less movement. A state of being contrary that is contrary to all that we know-to all that we have learned and observed. That confounds me in even greater ways than the understanding of our galaxy’s movement through space. We seek to settle down. Then we look forward to the days of retirement when we can slow down. Yet everything around us remains in motion and in high speed. Perhaps that’s what’s what facilitates the evidence of aging. The wrinkles, the sagging skin, the many lines. The dryness of skin. The loss of bone density. Perhaps aging is merely the evidence of a war of wills. We who want desperately to slow down warring against the many systems and worlds around us which are determined to stay in motion. Systems and worlds that understand how vital movement is. Systems and worlds that understand movement as life. As a life coach, I now realize the full weight of my responsibility to my clients.. I now see my practice as simply an opportunity as well as an invitation given to clients to act in accordance with all that exists around them, under them, and above them. Coaching imparts an understanding of the magic of meaningful movement. I have no choice but to conclude that Thomas Dolby was wrong. We haven’t been blinded by science. We’ve been blinded to science. Stay in motion my friend!