Following my Heart to Paradise

It is always hard for me to get used to new lifestyles and, having now settled relatively well in Chiang Mai, I am being asked to move on in the interests of happiness and fulfilment in my work. It is indeed a strange thing that occupies little time in practice but much though as I slowly grow accustomed to the idea of the move and all that it will entail. Above all, I feel blessed to be going somewhere so beautiful, so idyllic, so peaceful and so serene. Indeed, I could not ask for a better place from which to work on my books, videos and websites.

All of this is so sudden, yet it answers a number of requests of the universe at once: a request for time by the sea for relaxation and writing; a request to live in nature; a request to have a home where we can have friends and family to stay. How beautiful, how complete it all is. I love the sheer perfection in things arranged by the universe: I would probably not have dared contemplate this whole plan, attached as I am to false beliefs that have no real basis, such as that I am meant to be in Chiang Mai (the false assumption arising from the fact that it was the right place to be when I arrived but has now outgrown its role in my personal and spiritual development). Yet as the plan slowly unfolds and reveals more, I see that, in fact, our move will be for more than six months and indeed probably for several years.

Weaned off city life over the last two years, I feel ready for this move, if not positively hungry for it. Now the time has come to enjoy my life as an expression of who I really am, in nature where I belong and feel at home, surrounded by reminders of the beauty on Earth in a place where nature has largely been preserved in the face of that vile global disease of the late Twentieth Century, tourism! Krabi can be likened to a paradise that won my heart when I first stumbled upon it 13 years ago, relatively unknown as it was then and almost deserted in the late rainy season.

Though still some seven weeks away, the awareness of the move and what it will bring to me causes one of those rare, momentary flashes of super-connection with the universe, leaving in it wake a blissful state and an awareness of just how great life can be when I follow my heart as my guide to life. Nothing, no material temptation or otherwise, could lead me away from this potent way of living.