One of my subscribers wrote to tell me he was outdoors, practicing Dao Zou, feeling the bliss of the moving meditation/visualization program he got from me.
A lady reported him. She didn’t understand what the man was doing.
The police showed up and asked the man if he was “alright.”
Without a shred of panic or fear, he told the cops that he was doing better than ever. They picked up on his smiling energy, smiled back and left him alone.
15 years ago I was staying at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. Each night I would practice this moving meditation in front of the hotel/casino. I don’t recall anyone looking at me funny. And if they were, I was oblivious and immune to it.
Until the final night, when someone pulled to the curb, rolled down her windows and asked, “Are you alright?”
Funny, isn’t it?
When we take time to be silent, to go within, to regroup, most people will leave you alone, but there’s always that one person who doesn’t have a clue of what to do. The person is concerned about you – and it’s good to have people who care.
The greatness of Dao Zou is it makes you so peaceful and powerful, you don’t care if people don’t understand what you’re doing. You’re in the Zone – and ain’t no better feeling than that.
Mastering your mind isn’t only sitting and thinking positive thoughts when everything is going grand. It’s getting up and moving into the Zone when things aren’t necessarily perfect, when you’re in an agitated, anxious or downtrodden state.
Sometimes when we’re sitting, if we’re filled with angst and anxiety, stress and strain, it feels much more difficult to get back into balance. But when you move, the world inside of you changes – and thus, the world outside of you, provided you do so with a meditative mindset.
As my friend, Dr. Tom Hanson, author of Play Big, put it in a recent conversation, “It gives you a different lens to look at the world.”
What lens are you using?
One that puts everything in front of you with a fear, fight or freeze response?
Or one that allows you to put the stresses of the day miles away?
Yes, it’s easy to get sucked into the negativity in the news. But it’s even easier to back away from it.
The bonus for walking away from the negativity is that you get to feel positively blissful for no reason whatsoever, the way you were as a young child.
When you were young, you didn’t need a reason to be happy. You just were.
That’s what happens when you practice Dao Zou and Theatre of the Mind.
Happy, for no explainable reason.
Ah, the joy of practice.
See it. Feel it. Live it.
Matt Furey
