Before I dive into the juicy details of why I called this month the month of pleasure… Let’s talk about impatience.
I’m an Aries, I finished medical school, and there are perhaps countless other factors I could blame it on, but I’m a deeply driven, impatient person by nature. It took me a long time to see that in life, in most cases there’s no instant gratification, I can’t possibly be moving forward non-stop and I definitely can’t expect things to work out according to my neatly set out plan. I am the kind that needs to learn through her own experience (in Hungarian we say ‘learning through my own skin’). Yes I have started practicing and teaching rest for exactly this reason. I needed to practice stopping, trusting, resting, and ultimately, patience. This is my deepest practice, not just on my sheepskin, but off of it too.
This past month life gave me an opportunity to practice.
Now we can talk about pleasure. Earlier today I saw photos of a scene from a movie on Instagram saying - ‘Know what’s almost better than the kiss itself? The three seconds beforehand. The feeling when you know it’s about to happen.’
I have been tied to that feeling for weeks now. Aching for that kiss with a new special