This weekend was truly a roxtar weekend. I saw Journey, Heart, Blondie and Pat Benetar live, all within one weekend (no, not one concert). Yes, I love 80′s rock if that didn’t clarify it for you. My dad is somewhat of a musician and I remember him and my mom always playing music in the background of our lives. To this day when I hear Jack and Dianne by John Cougar Mellencamp I remember my dad singing it to me when I was a wee toddler and how happy it made me feel.
At the concerts this weekend I realized one of the many reasons I love music. Dancing to music is one of the rare opportunities that I just enjoy the moment and stop living in my head. If you are dancing and feeling the music, can you be thinking of anything at all? I just turn everything off and move my body in every which way I can while singing my heart out (if I know the song). I get sweaty, smiley, make random dancing friends, and have so much fun! I feel living in and enjoying the present moment is one of the most amazing and rare feelings, something that I am learning how to do more and more, but is ever elusive and difficult to maintain. When life isn’t handing me lemons I find I am pretty good at it, not living in the past or future or in my head too much. When life gets a little more challenging, to be honest, I get a little too mental! I analyze, get emotional, can’t stop thinking about the past or future and lose touch with the fact that life gives me exactly what I need to learn and grow.
Some of you might not know wtf I am talking about when I say “living in the present/now moment.” Have you ever experienced unadulterated joy after dancing your ass off with your friends for an evening? Where you’re just smiling ear to ear and are wondering how 4 hours just went by so fast? Maybe you experience it on a bike, running on a treadmill, sitting silently with a cup of tea, after physical activity, making love, on the yoga mat, spending time with children, where ever. For me I notice it most on the yoga mat, and I am very excited to have also found the present moment on the dance floor, which this weekend was a lovely grass lawn with my girlfriends. Yes, I found the present moment again! Each time I find it and feel that joy that is hard to describe, I get excited, I feel blessed, and remember that my yogi efforts for a quiet calm mind are not futile if they provide me with the bliss I felt after dancing this weekend.
