In the garden I see you. Standing there like a pillar of strength. Your back is straight and you hands are at your side, palms resting on the side of your legs. I follow the motions as your hands rise slowly to touch a leaf directly over your head. Your palms face outward until the moment just before you touch the leaf, and then your hands rotate swiftly to face each other.
I heard your slow deep breathing as your hands raised up, and then it paused at the moment of rotation. Both of us held our breath, and felt the calm as our fingers rubbed the leaf between our thumb, pointer and index finger. We felt the roughness of the flesh of the leaf, and our fingers traced the veins on the surface. The taste of the moist, fresh garden soil lingered on our tongue, and we stood without moving. Then we breathed out though our eyes, and then could see the sap running in the veins, and sense the life force beating in the plant. As we breathed out slowly and gently, we made the sound SH……, and the garden fell into silence.
In the silence, I searched for me. I saw, tasted, smelled and felt everything in the garden, so I must be here. But I could not find me. I looked up to the right, up to the left, down to the right, down to the left. I did not see me. I felt that your eyes were following mine. We scanned from left to right.
As we scanned we held our breath. In the internal silence, our heartbeat slowed. In the quieted of all moments, I heard you blink! Our eyes met and you said “I see you”.
Then we were back in the garden. We sat on a bench, and gazed into each other’s eyes. We became aware of our beating hearts, as we breathe out though our eyes into the eyes of the other. Relax the jaw, and let our eyes relax, and enter the inner self of the other. Can we see the “other” as a part of you?
This is a Yoga exercise. Do it often enough and you will travel to your true love, wherever they might be.
