Fly Wisdom

Summer. Open windows. Flies. Annoying. Buzzing around my head all the time. I open the window or door, and in they come in, like it’s no ones business. And then the worst thing? They buzz around and refuse to go back outside. I try to usher them out, blocking their path back into the house, but they evade my every move, buzzing around me, dodging my useless arm waves.

Recently, I looked outside into the garden as the rain poured from above, soaking the ground, the smell of wet soil filling my nostrils. My awareness was drawn to a single cluster fly, sat on the metal railings outside the back door. He was hiding from the rain, sitting quietly under the shelter of the horizonal metal bars. I watched him for a while. He moved a little, shuffling restlessly, but he stayed. The droplets of rain were huge, I’m not sure how he would have coped had he not been sheltering. He waited until the shower was over, and then off he flew.

Much like flies, our thoughts are constantly buzzing around us. They come and they go, and most of the time they stay. Hanging around, catching our every attention as we go about our day. Thought trail after thought trail, rabbit hole, after rabbit hole. Sometimes we don’t even notice that we have been taken by the river of thought, the flow of words, images, and scenarios, surrounding us every day, everywhere we go. These thoughts are things. Thought-forms. They say 90% of our thoughts aren’t even our own! Floating around in a collective, invisible bubble. Clouds of energy, some denser than others. They catch out attention, and we pour our feelings, emotions, and desires into them. Why? Our minds are not trained to focus in this modern world, with constant distractions, our attention is pushed and pulled in every direction. Much like the flies flying around our heads, constant, cyclic thoughts can be annoying, tiring or cause us to feel a range of emotions. If we are not aware of them, we may wonder where all our energy has gone. We may feel tired, drained and fed-up.

Trying to get a fly out of your house the same way it got in? Difficult. Recently I had the back door open, but the windows closed. Every now and again, I got up from my desk to usher the flies out of the open door. But they always returned. In the end I would resort to just shutting the door, so that I could get on with my work in peace. But one day, things were different. I thought – ok well if they are not going out the door, then I need to open the windows so that they have more of a chance of flying in, and then out a different way. Before, I was shutting them in, expecting them to go out the same way as they came in. Wise? I don’t feel so! By opening the windows to the cottage, I had created a flow of energy. Flies in, flies out. Much the same as my thoughts. If you close your mind, the thoughts will stay, and they will unlikely go out the same way. In conversation with my guides that day, I came to realise just how many thought forms I have accumulated over the past few months. Constantly pulling my attention. I was feeling drained and frustrated.

Can we learn to open our minds, and allow our thoughts to come and go? Can we refrain from attaching to them? Maybe then there is a much greater chance they will leave some other way. Can we allow and observe? Can we notice whether any emotions come up as we do this? Can we let them go, simply allow them to be, without paying too much attention to them. Without putting our time and energy into them?

So today, I thank the flies for their wisdom. I thank them for showing me that a thought only stays when I trap it, when I give attention to it. If we open the windows of our minds and allow our thoughts to flow, allow our other senses in – the smell of the wind, the song of the birds, the rustling of the leaves blowing in the breeze. Perhaps things may just feel a lot lighter.

Flies also represent death and decay, feeding on that which no longer serves us. Helping with the process of transformation. This summer has been a big process of transformation for me. Do you feel it too? Are things shifting and changing for you? Comment below or get in touch to find out how we may be able to work together – hello@barberryandbloom.co.uk