The birds are singing outside the window on this spring like winter day, because that is what birds do.  The celebration of a warm day during the heart of winter by the birds is evident because they are living this moment.  We have talked much about living in this moment in the past.  Recently, we talked about defining for yourself what “living in the moment” means for you.

When you need to understand a concept, we recommend that you look around to nature for your answers – as well as looking inside of yourself, past the head and the ego, to your heart.  Today the weather forecast is for the day to turn colder with snow in the near future.  Do you think the birds know the forecast?

Well, yes they do but not in the way that is so mechanically defined for humans.  Birds and animals of course have a sense of upcoming weather, especially strong storms and the like that are forming.   However, the forecasted high temperature and low temperature numbers that you hear every morning are of course, of no concern to those birds.

When it snows the birds hunker down for survival and when the sun is shining they come out to enjoy that moment – sometimes by celebrating with song and chirping.  Do they know that it may turn cold later today?  Possibly.  But it does not matter, because they will go about this moment the way they want to go about the moment with no concern for the change that may or may not occur in the future.

How do you behave throughout your day?  Do you enjoy the moment of sunshine and bask in the “rays” that are warming your face?  Or rather, do you put your head down knowing that this is a temporary event and the real storm is a brewing?

Living this moment is all that you have.  For the moments will someday cease in this lifetime.  The bird knows this, too, and chooses to take advantage of every moment possible.   Sometimes as humans in a physical body, we “know too much.”   We know that this ray of sunshine is only going to be short-lived, but rather than taking advantage of it, we prefer to ignore it because maybe it’s not worth our time since it will be quickly going away.

Sometimes, we need to think more like a bird with very limited intelligence and less like an evolved human.  Maybe we need to have at times limited memory, and limited analysis in our lives.  Maybe we should forget a few things, like the bird, letting go of those memories that fuel our resentment, distrust, and anger towards the persons in our life for which we have the most love.  Maybe, we need to be more “bird-like.”

Think of the possibilities.  If a bird chooses to go somewhere else to look for worms it simply flies to where it wants to go.  When the sun peeks out of the clouds, the bird can quickly fly to water to bathe.  When a bird has a “spat” with a fellow bird, it brushes off its feathers and continues about its day.

Sometimes we have a tendency to “over think” things in our lives.  Utilize that massive brain power for something important rather than wasting that energy on trivial things that only create negative emotions within your body.

Animals in nature have seemingly simple lives even though they are constantly living for survival.  Humans have created so much complexity in their lives that  has helped lesson the struggle for survival, but has created much more anxiety and stress.  Let go of the complexities and just let things “be” the way they are for the moment.   Quit trying to change everything and everyone that you feel can be improved.  Let go, and be free!

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Sometimes we need to look to the bird for how to live – having very short-term memory and few desires, while living the moment.