Track Your Life with Boyd Varty
How wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize the essential ingredients in a meaningful life.
Displaying 6 items of Track Your Life with Boyd Varty with the tag "presence".
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Day 38 - Push
May 9th, 2020 | Season 1 | 9 mins 54 secs
alex, food, lion, moon, presence, push, renias, retreats, tracking
A few days ago I left the trail of the lion when the sun climbed high in the sky and the light grew flat and white. I needed to go back on the track and be certain the trail was lost over the border which it was. Courage is knowing when the hold on and knowing when to let go. I need to be here all the way until the end.
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Day 35 - Enchantment
May 6th, 2020 | Season 1 | 12 mins 13 secs
acceptance, bateleur, beauty, eckhart tolle, enchantment, enthusiasm, fasting, harmony, homework, mission, mystics, presence, stillness, tune in
I think of this experience as the slow removal as a shell. As the days went by I felt more myself. I felt the creativity coming back in, co-creating the story with nature. My energy levels return to new highs. My relationship with beauty was revived. I feel like so much of what I was trying to do before was trying to tune out, now I am trying to tune back in.
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Day 26 - Define Abundance
April 27th, 2020 | Season 1 | 11 mins 8 secs
abundance, book of mormon, community, nature, presence, quality, shame, stillness, success, utopia, warlord, wealth
What else happens when you get still is that you become aware there are many places in your life where you have not showered yourself in glory. You have to face up to a certain amount of shame in your own behavior that frankly if you keep busy you can hide away. To be still means that you can really revisit those moments. Even if you don’t want to it will come up.
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Day 25 - Sidetracked
April 26th, 2020 | Season 1 | 10 mins 43 secs
ancestors, camp life, elephant bull, elephants, feral, friends, kettle shower, leopards, mating leopards, parfuri, presence, stars, tracking, whales
My quest to track a big bull elephant has still not happened. It keeps getting interrupted by lion tracks and pegasus rhino. Still this is a mission that remains high on my priority list. An animal like that has presence who has walked the ancient paths of his ancestors. There are myths of elephants who used to frequent the eastern seaboards of Southern Africa and commune with whales. These animals exist in a conscious that is beyond the verbal mind. There is no future and no past.
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Day 7 - Solo
April 8th, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 21 secs
african hawk eagles, chinspot batis, lions, manyelethi, presence, richard siwela, roost, tracks
Why am I Here?
Why have I always known I would live in a tree?
Why do I track solo?
Why do you know you must do that you have not rational reason to?
Out here I do one thing at a time. If you are into being present, I would give it a try. -
Day 5 - Why is Simplicity So Complicated?
April 6th, 2020 | Season 1 | 11 mins 50 secs
ngorongoro, presence, robinson crusoe, simplify, stillness, wildebeest
So many people feel like they are living their life behind a pain of perspex. I’m certain this is related to complexity and convenience. If you want more life: simplify, simplify, simplify. All over Africa where there tends to be less stuff I feel more generosity. The stillness is however confronting. Without the news of the world insights arise. Somewhere inside I’m still trying to grow up and overcome the ten year old.