Feet in The Sky-- Head on The Ground

My mother spent the better part of my childhood reminding me to come down from way-up-There.  But Up There is where I felt most at home. Often, I think about the times my mother used to repeat herself endlessly throughout my childhood, "Rosanne get your head out of the clouds." So I did and wrote a fairy tale about all the forgotten children who lived—in- the- clouds.

 

Every day I contemplate the concept of dreaming and remember Einstein’s words, “Logic will take you from point A – point B, but imagination will take you everywhere.” Countless Others have said similar things with different words. I have a feeling that those very Others lived what they spoke.  When you take thoughts and form words and then put them into action you gain experience. (We all know this. But how many of us practice what we speak, think or hear?)  Was Albert Einstein a perfect blend of lofty and rational?  Maybe so, for he used his imagination with the precision of Rational & Creative—Heart & Mind thinking and feeling!

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Day-dreaming can be a useful tool, if the day-dream is guided every day as a part of our routine. Eating a balanced diet, exercising our bodies is as important as exercising our minds and our imagination.

                                                                                                 Feet in the Sky. Head on the ground.

                                                                                                                     (a new concept?)

 

“Head in the clouds” metaphorically has always been synonymous with daydreaming or frivolous, wishful thinking. We’ve all heard the old saying, “keep your feet firmly planted on the ground and your head in the clouds.” Meaning:  hold the vision but keep yourself firmly rooted in the earth.  However, if we really think about this statement, it could mean the very opposite.  Where does the importance lie with our feet on the ground?  When we think of being grounded don’t we mean our head/mind?  When I was a kid, I learned how to combat the challenges I was faced with and how to overcome fears—through daydreaming and an active imagination. As an adult, being able to harness and direct my imagination has helped me tackle everything from childbirth through divorce and then single parenting.

Haven't we all, at times in our lives reinterpreted the messages of others? In doing so we can create our own analogy and understanding of “how life really works…”  But why set limits? When we remove the clouds from our vision we see how we can have the entire expanse of the sky!

 

(And the sky is for running!)

 

By taking our head out of the clouds sometimes and peeking around, moving them out of the way, we can discover the world with no boundaries! When we take the time to look with our eyes wide opened, we see The Rainbows; The Possibilities, The Dreams, for all of us.  The accessibility of the possibilities are vast and endless!  When I saw all that I could have and how limitless was the sky, I immediately knew: feet in the sky—head down below. And with my Feet Up There I could cover so much more Ground. Buddha said, “Be like the sky—open, free.” There you can run, skip, walk and dance, while your head and mind—firmly planted on the ground can take care of all of life's "non-Sense"!

 

Why do we listen to the “practical” Non-Sense of others? The ones who say with-confidence, "the chances if your dreams coming true are one in a million..." and they might be right, but there is that magical word: O.N.E. and that one in a million can also mean y.o.u, after all there are plenty of “Ones” out there doing exactly that!

 

Feet in the sky? Head on the ground?  Metaphors and dreams, when thought through, can actually take flight in the concrete world.  The mind combined with imagination creates miraculous events we thought and dared only to dream about, but never actually imagine could come true.  The timeless space, all that is intangible, holds the key to our wishes.  The cloudless sky is where all thought, all imaginings begin and take root. The ground is for thinking, the sky is for running and dreaming and visa versa. Be Flexible. Utilize both worlds with your heart, your mind and your body.  The glass is not one or the other: half full or half empty. It is a glass with some water in it. Period.  Thinking “outside of the box” is a silly and pointless concept!  (There are plenty of Outside The Box Thinkers who are dying because they are living inside of the very box they are thinking outside of!) Live outside of the box or you might as well forget about your meaningless thinking! Headwork only matters when you bring the thinking thoughts to life!

 

Planes start on the ground, travel through the sky and return to the ground—viewing their destination via the cloudless (and sometimes turbulent sky) See the route clearly with your mind’s eye and then run for the heavens and There you will find your dreams and everything that matters. Be like the birds and the butterflies. Start down and work your way up!

 

Our minds and feet need the equal journeying in both worlds. Perhaps this is true balance not one dominating over the other but rather, a blending and right timing for both:  The Earth/Our Mind; The Sky/Our Heart and Feet, no clouds, no fears—no NonSense.

 

So for today: remember: words need feet! And those feet need to move. Not just move—run and there is no better place to run free than the sky!

(Try it sometime, First Flight…)

 

So, when that Clock is about to strike 12 and that noon train is approaching around the bend; the tracks are laden with golden bricks pointing in a Direction and your life is asking you:  Decide, Decide, Decide...who are you going to listen to?  Your heart or your mind? How will you travel? Plane, Train, Feet in the Sky?

Will you change your life’s path?

(only time will tell...)