It’s Mother’s Day today. Well, it is back home in Australia.

I’ve felt really quite removed from my world today. Not upset, but just feeling the physicality of the time and space of being on the other side of the planet. I grabbed towel and laid on the lawn: as long a shag carpet, as soft and dense as a reindeer coat in the winter. The glory of being in the country side is there that is no excessive traffic noise, no exorbitant exhaust fumes to contend with. It’s just you, the sky and the earth.

I laid myself down on the towel, my palms spread open sinking into the cushioning of the grass. I let myself be held by the Earth. Allowing myself to sink into the warm and comfort that comes from it’s grounding energy.
I don’t know what it is but, whenever I am parallel with the Earth, the fear of assessing my life objectively falls away. Your head is literally no longer in the clouds but is level with your heart and equally supported by the Earth.

Thoughts and feelings are both surrendered to the Earth, your inner state now a neutral equilibrium; anything extremely negative or positive is silenced by the inner calm that is flooding the insides of your body. Thoughts coming and going without judgement, without over analysis as fast as the clouds moving above (and I might add, so nice for the clouds to actually delightfully fluffy and not laden with unwarranted rainfall).

To my own surprise, the sun became to warm and I shuffled my outdoor meditation zone to the reclaimed stone wall and propped myself up against it. The wind picked up and I breathed in the beautifully fresh southerly air: my exhalations taken by the same wind along with any anxious energy I’ve unwittingly held within.

I didn’t get to spend this Mother’s Day with my Mum. And that’s ok. It’s one of the little things you unknowingly (at the time) sacrifice when you move away. It’s not about that one day either. It’s the spontaneous small gestures and conversations that are the ones that we remember. Mother Earth held me today, and I didn’t feel so far away from my mama.