Hunting

In Badminton, we have this expression called 'hunting'. In effect it is the deliberate act of seeking an opportunity to take direct the game into your favour.

Each morning I wake up, go through my "get up routine" and then start my day approaching my to do list with varying degrees of enthusiasm, based on how many of the items on it, where on yesterdays list and the previous days, and so on and have been transferred to today's list because they have not been done. The more transferees, the the less enthusiasm I have for my day, and the more likely during the day I am going to seek out "escapes". There is a great deal of value in applying this "hunting' principle to our day in relation to the opportunities that are there. I have the opportunity to end my day with a true sense of satisfaction and achievement. I have the opportunity to end my day with a true sense excitement for the coming day. This power is in my hands. I think most days, I spend waiting. Equate this to a game of badminton...I am waiting for the player/universe to give me an opportunity. Hang on....that sounds like 'hunting'. So what then is the difference? When I am waiting in a game of badminton, I am not mentally engaged with my environment. I am not engaging the game, until the opportunity comes. Effectively my attention is on my side of the line. This is like a caveman hunter, who waits for his prey to wander into his camp, before he engages his art of harvesting his food. He would eventually starve to death. Hunting, is about going out of your environment, and seeking out opportunities. In the case of badminton, I engage my opponents space using my perception to assess their capabilities in a given situation based on previous similar situations and results. I do this in conjunction with effort to force a favourable result. So all very interesting, but how does this pertain to my day? Well, I think I get up every day and I am a 'waiter'. I spend my day plodding...waiting for things to happen. I do not make them happen. I am not engaging my Universe, I am staying in my limited physical space. So what does this mean?

Well, I wake up in the morning, and I am entering into my physical realm, not locked into it, but observing from it. I am 'hunting' down opportunities that I can clearly see are there in my infinite possibilities and I am availing myself to connect with these opportunities. I am not predetermining the pathway, only hunting for the outcome. Each time I enter into a new environment, I connect with that part of the experience which is the other part of my greater self. The part that has created me to be this point of experience. I realise that part of me is the source of that part of the experience and I of mine. That only through my awareness will my part of the experience occur. It is like oxygen and breather, or water and drinker.

By staying on my side of the line, I do not make the connection with the source of opportunity. I do not send out the "address" or 'signal of readiness' to say I am a worthy candidate for an experience. So how does this work? Well, it is really about realizing, I am not this individual, who is selfishly out to get whatever experiences I can. I am an integral part of a very big picture/ entity, of which I have the capacity to play a big, small or no role in the growth and development of. This includes every single aspect of every experience that I have the capability of perceiving.