Into the Space

In her book “Sweat your Prayers”, Gabrielle Roth tells the story of an Indian cab driver who was asked how he survived the chaos of big City traffic. “I move into the space”. More Time and Space often feels like the one thing that is unobtainable, and yet we all have the same amount. Part of it is the big wet blanket of Success. Proving ourselves. Fighting for recognition. For justification. For excuses. For worth. The Mental Health work I am doing at the moment is outside of that world. I spend time running, twisting my Rubik’s cube, twirling on the Dance Floor, learning languages, and doing Tony Buzan style “Memory Work” (using the senses to create a filing system to help pay more attention). None of this seems “productive”. Gabrielle Roth points out that it takes a lot of discipline to be a free spirit. The space is there. But you do need to do the work to build a practice that lets you see it.