28 June

Animals teach us that if you have your attention wholly engaged in what you’re doing, everything else follows without effort or strain. This hawk’s attention doesn’t budge for a second, which is what frees its body completely along its length to respond. All our feelings of weight and effort in our own bodies are only lapses of attention, usually to try to ‘do’ our own movements. That tightens us right up, creating those feelings of strain and weight.