"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits."
"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." This often heard quote by baseball player Satchel Paige may bring a smile to our face as we recall similar behaviors in ourselves. Hot summer days and nights are conducive to sitting on porches with a tall, cool drink and just reflecting on the state of our lives. Mulling over thoughts aided by summer scents and warm breezes predispositions us for a meditative mood that easily lapses into daydreaming. Half unconsciously, we play out the movie of our life and relive the pleasant parts and hopefully skip over those episodes that need fast forwarding. These thoughts may serve as a personal inventory as to what works in our lives and what doesn’t work so well.
Daydreaming lends us the capacity to step into shoes that in real life may appear too large or even cumbersome. Acorns grow into tall oak trees, eagles hatch from small eggs, and a touch of genius slumbers in every daydreamer. When we put ourselves into the meditative state that daydreaming demands, our bodies slow down and our mind and intuition pick up. The sixth sense then has an open door opportunity to enter and share opportunities, hunches, and coincidences that we may block in normal, everyday occurrences.
So why not sit and think a spell? Better, yet, why not sit and not think. You never know what seeds of wisdom may sprout.
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