I just got back to the hillside I’m residing on way above the beautiful urban sprawl they call the French Riviera, the Cote d’Azur and it certainly is the deepest azure today – the sunlight bouncing off the waves like a beam possessed, the sky, clear as a bell, but for a beard and moustache of clouds hanging above the horizon somewhere over the badlands of Corsica.
I was in the UK all last week, mostly to do the debut performance of the Barefoot and Leakster POSITIVE MESSAGE MUSIC song cycle, combined with a sound-healing and talk on sound healing, which went swimmingly well, and to attend meetings about the BIG OM, the event I’m planning to do at Wembley Stadium, involving over 90,000 people chanting to heal the world before it’s too late.
And I rounded it all up going to a party at Aynho Park in Oxfordshire, which is undoubtedly the most ridiculously grand place I’ve ever been to a party at.
And have arrived back feeling a combination of supercharged zest and supercharged punch-drunkenness.
An aspect of being on this mission to do all possible to contribute to our furthering evolution is an insistent inner drive that needs constant taming. I do this with my martial arts and meditation practice – this morning between writing various pieces, flitting to the outside and dancing in the hillside sunlight, thrilling at the view - and would be doing so now were I not writing this to you – in fact will be again as soon as I’ve written it, provided I can resist the temptation to deal with the next hundred or so emails that will have come in, in the interim.
And all the while, this drive insists, ‘you’re not doing enough, Barefoot, do more’.
Yet I know that the way to do more is actually to do less – to do less striving, less contriving and allow the energy to propel me from within, rather than attempt to coerce it.
Because after all, I’m going to die at some point, as are we all, and no matter how long it takes for that moment to arrive, I’ll still not have done everything on my ‘to-do’ list, because it’s infinite.
And as I posit in THE MESSAGE, my new book, if an asteroid smashed into this planet, reducing it to a waft of space dust, none of what we hold sacrosanct would exist any longer – not the names of God, not even the to-do lists.
Remembering this helps me ease off – and I say this to encourage you to do likewise.
Because as this transition we’re collectively undergoing gathers pace, the sense of urgency to contribute ballast grows exponentially, hence there’s a great need for pacing – for going the distance rather than expend it all on a single sprint.
Other than running a live weekly satsang for the good people of Monaco – it just happened that way – my main focus down here is a music project I’m producing with Jeffrey Hessing, a brilliant artist of great repute, called Barefoot Doctor presents Jeff ‘n’ Steph – it’s an electronic music based affair, featuring Jeff playing sublime harmonica and holding forth in dulcet New York tones, in dialogue with me on topics including change, noise, sex, grace, creativity and pretty much all aspects of the human experience – and we’ll be having guests like Raja Ram and John Parkin. We’ve shot a video for the first track, the footage of which is remarkable, and are waiting to see whether the genius French film-maker comes up trumps with the edit and if so he’s up for making film for the whole album’s worth – and I’ll be sharing some of that with you in the New Year.
So today, once I’ve taken care of all the writing assignments, it’s ears in the cans mixing the second tune and making some headway with the third – and hence why I’m mindful of the ease-off option, as nothing valuable is achieved in a frantic rush.
In summary, no matter the intensity of whatever’s going on for you or I right now, the crucial thing is to keep remembering what a boon it is simply to be alive – though there’s nothing that simple about it – life is infinitely complex.
One of the lyrics in the Jeff ‘n’ Steph project, offered as an antidote to the internal noise caused by wondering if you could be doing better, runs, ‘I’m always in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way, with the right people and the right result.’ Try repeating that over and over and you;ll see how it settles you and strengthens your resolve.
With love, Supercharged (BD)
Repeat 6x: ‘I’m always in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way, with the right people and the right result.'
