Everything is Amazing

In my Thai massage workshop today, the teacher told us a story about riding in the car with her daughter. "Look, mommy, look! Isn't it amazing?!" her daughter screamed pointing at Christmas lights hanging from a house.

At first, my teacher acknowledged it with an eye roll. "Yes honey, it's neat."

Then, she tuned into her daughter’s excitement and thought about it. She thought about how humans have created these tiny little lights that we put on strings. How we figured out how to extract power from the earth to produce light. How we build homes and decorate them. How nature grows things. How those things feed us. How we breathe out the air that help trees to live.

How the world really is an amazing place. She told us this story so that we too could feel that amazement.

Then the lesson turned to the pineal gland and how part of it's job is to help us perceive the world as a magical, mystical, mysterious in all the best ways kind-of-place.

The thing is, we're not always tapped into this space. We can get so easily distracted by and disappointed by things that don't matter that we forget to focus on the things that show us a different way of seeing.

What this has to do with Thai massage is that this practice of one of those things that help us remember again what it feels like to be a kid. To be in our bodies. To be in love with life exactly as it is, because when you think about it, it's amazing.

This is not an ad for Thai massage.

This is a call to find yourself one or 100 activities that bring you to this place. Do them regularly. Do them daily. Do them like they are your job.

Even better, find a job where you get to do those things. I have to say it’s pretty amazing.