Have you ever visited Niagara Falls? It’s a gas. You put on a plastic raincoat and climb aboard a boat called “The Hornblower” that takes you on an epic ride through the white mist right up to the Falls themselves… close to 700,000 gallons of water per second cascading down to the river below.
It has to be one of the greatest natural wonders on Earth. The force and power of the water is thrilling to me. I love it.
What I love most about it is this: you can FEEL it with all your senses.
Close your eyes and feel the sensations that come at you from every direction: the damp mist in the air… the cool spray that pelts your face and soaks your hair… the sun on your face… the rocking of the boat…the vibrations of the churning water down below.
It’s almost like you can lock it in your memory bank – lock it in the cells of your body. Days later, I find I can close my eyes and feel the mist in my nostrils and the spray on my face all over again.
Yogi, teacher and author Ram Dass would love it. He’s a famous dude in the world of spirituality, thanks to his ground breaking book, “Be Here Now”. In the book, he talks about the “joy and liberation” of living in the present moment. Being fully in “now”, he says, is the greatest gift we can give to each situation.
In a world where joy often seems in short supply, isn’t it a kick to think we can actually connect with it whenever we want, just by fully living in each moment and feeling it?
I’ll bet that plastic raincoat would look good on you. 😀
