I am in love with sunrises. I also adore sunsets, but sunrises are special because to me they announce the new beginning. Have you experienced a sunrise lately? The soothing light from the sun, the fresh air, the birds’ song? Our ancestors honoured this moment, gathering together, gazing at the sun and singing.

Even in the suburbs of the cities (like this photo here), the sunrise holds a sacred space in the day. The sunrise is not here only to bring the light after the darkness, but to remind us of our unspoken capacity to make a new beginning, to restart our lives.

Living in a fast pace world in which we run stressfully through the “to do lists” instead of running carefree in the fields, we forget of our ability to re-start. Our mind conquers the heart, the body and the spirit, leaving us with a sense of imbalance, incompleteness or un-rootedness. We might lose the control of our lives and get trapped in repeated patterns that do not serve our souls. Yet, with mindfulness, we re-gain our ability to comprehend how we live our lives, to embrace what happens and to align our actions with our purpose. Mindfulness is an innate skill – we are all born with it. It gets lost on the way to adulthood, but by welcoming it back to our lives, we can reborn ourselves, just like the nature does with every sunrise.

Eleni Michail