“At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshness”
- T. S. Elliot
There are two dances that coexist side by side the one feeding the other. The first is the dance of shape, movement through space and the connection to chronological time. It is a dance that expresses our relationship to the outside world. It often reflects the story we hold about ourselves. For example if we hold a view that we are not creative, it can restrict the dance. In this way the world outside reflects and definitely influences the world inside - the hidden dimensions of being. When I resist the dance, it reinforces that inside of me that resists. When I let go into the dance, it becomes liberating and creates a whole different relationship to self and life.
However, there is another dance, that which emerges from the depth of our being. This dance prefers to dissociate itself from the ordinary experience of life through space and time. This inner dance is without time and exists in a space of atemporality, without edges and boundaries. To uncover this dance we sometimes require a different route. We find ways to still the outside world, to still the mind with its stories and to detach from time and space. Through these dances we begin to create greater sensitivity to our senses and our bodies. The paradox is that this body of boundaries, edges and vitality is also the way into our interior space when we re-engage with the dance in a different way. If we are willing to step aside, still the mind, and let the dance flow, we find a world of expansion, a world of integration, and a world of wonder.
_Christos Daskalakos
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