I am now returning from a ten day break in Thailand and what can I say? I am refreshed? Hardly! In truth I am exhausted; but I have had a most wonderful time.
That I am raring to get back to work? No, I want to sleep for a week, despite the fact that I have lounged by swimming pools in temperatures of 30 degrees plus whilst having visited enough holy Bhuddas to spiritually turbo-charge me for a year.
That I have a new perspective on life? We'll sort of but that's not the heart of it; of course my perspective is broadened, how could it not be? But there is something broader, wider than a mere foreign perspective, no matter how different that is from ours in the West.
I wrestle with what I am trying to say as I fly over Asia on this plane. What has changed for me as a result of this holiday?
The purpose of it was to help heal me, to meet my family again and build a bridge and that certainly has happened.
Warm foods and spices have entered me from this far eastern land and with them an awareness in myself of a warmth in my heart that is like an ember, an ember that I am breathing on and which wants to ignite. It's a kind of self-awareness of what my life should really be like and in truth should really be.
Why it takes so long to reach this point I do not know. Some people seem to know almost from day one what they should be doing; but most of us, I guess, don't.
And here's where the motivation of travel comes in: you go away, you have an itinerary, and for a short while you don't, you can't think of the everyday, the ordinary, the usual; your mind is off on tangents.
At least that 10% of our conscious mind is off on tangents, and whilst it is, it is not strumming on the 90% of our subconscious, trying to force a tune out it.
No, the subconscious gets a kind of holiday itself, and the subconscious likes a holiday; yes, finds a holiday highly motivating. Voila! Before you know where you are - and before you are even back - it has begun its highly suggestive work.
I have a lot to do; I know that, but I am not thinking about that too much. Only what concerns me is that sense that the oyster gets as the pearl is forming: that something tremendous, something valuable, is brewing, is about to be born and I can scarcely give it a name.
But I know it is there, is part of me. This holiday has motivated my subconscious and something new is to be created.
What an investment then! You get the fun of the fair, the joy of the holiday, but you also get something creative for life, your life. How marvellous, how wonderful: thank you Thailand.
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