Travel is full of unpredictable experiences! For example, until you visit the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia in Mexico City, you have NO idea how overwhelming it can be!
So you have to adjust! And often that comes in the experience itself!
Similarly, travel planning requires an overview for me! And then, it’s crucial to let go and flow.
When I arrived in San Miguel or when I read about it, I never heard of a botanical garden.
It occurred at the perfect moment. Travel is best for me when there is a balance. Balance dormitory stays and meeting lots of new people getting a private room and some inner quiet. Balance between the excitement of exploring cities and their history with time in nature breathing fresh air and walking slowly!
Otherwise, I get exhausted and out of balance!
Listening required!
I’m practicing some form of qigong and meditation every day. Connecting to inner quiet is as important as breathing and eating to me.
From that place, I listen! Making plans can be mental. Feeling is kinesthetic. The moment I heard about the gardens, something inside me resonated. I made plans to go that afternoon. And I was amazed the the dimension of the place! It was HUGE! I walked for several hours!
Peaceful, quiet and fresh, a lovely walking meditation!
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Stop running, listen for balance!
Surprising or normal?? Busy, busy, busy, doing and doing. No space for magic? Sad life!
I overheard a conversation yesterday at a coffee shop about sales. They were talking about competition, winning and losing, increasing sales, who would like it, how to introduce the two options (giving an artificial feeling of choice). That sort of approach requires CONSTANT attention and energy. There is little to no connection to internal motivation or bringing out the best in people!
And there wasn’t a word spoken about why they do what they do or what they love about it? Being busy, pushing to make things happen, trying to control things is exhausting!
Human “doings”. I prefer human “being”!
In my world, serendipity happens so often, I’ve come to feel surprised when it IS NOT happening. I love living in a world where it is normal rather than a rare! And where I know it is up to me!
Yesterday morning, I found a place near my hostel for breakfast and met a lovely couple from outside Toronto who just moved to San Miguel de Allende. They make their own coffee’s and have a 20-year-old La Marzocco they are getting wired into their home! Coffee talk for me, perfect! Really nice people! Then the owner of the restaurant talked with me and asked me what I did? As I told him he wanted to know if I was speaking in San Miguel? Why Not? Next time, I want to hear you.
With a little extra time, I walked to Ki’bok coffee for one last peaceful moment on their roof top with a great coffee. As I mentioned where I was going, I received a written note of two lovely small villages outside Puebla to visit! Awesome! (PS…Ki’bok was included in this National Geographic story!)
Packed, I headed off walking to the bus station. Arriving early, they put me on the bus leaving in five minutes!
In Guanajuato, I had no idea how to get all the way into the central area to my hostel. First, I needed the bathroom. Lacking change, I put in 10 pesos.
Through the turnstile, a man approached saying something about “cambio”? The machine gave me change!! I had no idea?!?
Curious for my future schedule, I asked him if there was a bus from here to Puebla. He heard “pueblo” and guided me outside to a spot a few steps away where a bus was arriving. It will take me to the central area for $15 pesos, less than a dollar.
And on, and on and on….
Stay present and keep listening! Magic happens!
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