The moment when you come out of a posture you’ve held for awhile and feel the shift. It’s sometimes a grand sensation. It’s sometimes nothing. Most often it’s in between.
When life gives you long holds, periods of time when you’re doing the same thing, and then it changes, how do you shift? Sometimes the change is gradual. Sometimes it’s dramatic. But there’s generally a shift. Within the shift is often a message, if we stop to listen. That’s the big if. When was the last time you had a life change and took even a moment to notice and ask, “what was the message?” “What did I release?” “What can I release?”
Long periods in a pose, a situation, a groove or a rut eventually end. That ending is an opportunity to evaluate what that situation held for you or taught you. Everything ends. Sometimes that’s a great relief. Sometimes it’s a huge sadness. And sometimes we barely notice. But if we pause, there’s always a subtle shift in perspective that we can gain from the rebound and observing it. That’s the way we learn. We respect the pose and it’s gift, regardless if we’re coming out of a groove or a rut.
Late summer can feel reboundish. It’s the earth’s gift, if we take it. Those poignant moments when the light shifts that one degree lower on the horizon. The colors shift almost imperceptibly. The nights shorten and early summers blooms begin to fade.
This season invites us to rebound from early summer’s fury as we appreciate cooler mornings, longer nights, gifts of nature and the gentle turning of the globe. Not just for harvest. But to observe of what it might bring. We lay in the rebound aware, feeling the tingle and the posture we’ve just left behind. Can we notice how we’ve changed? What we’ve learned? What that experience felt like? Rebounding, taking the time to be in the moment, allows us to drink it in, feel the subtle shifts deeply and allow ourselves to move onto the next posture and season with a sense of openness and purpose.