The Praying Mantis Helps You Seek Stillness

Carolina summers wouldn't be complete. Without spotting. A bold, ego driven, I see everything around me Praying Mantis. Long green. Sometimes brown. Sticks with oblong heads. Cartoon like. Mechanical. Un-abrasive. I vote friendly. Anyone else might scream. Then run away quickly. Year after year the Praying Mantis tends to follow me. The Poet of a forest. Multiple trees. Wild weeds. My favorite Queens Lace. Naturally tapping the baseline shoulder of a finely tuned lapping pond. Saturday. I laughed out loud at the Praying Mantis' latest attempt at communicating. Near or next to invisible and brilliantly tiny. I had never come face to face with a newborn, hatched or however else these creative protectors emerge upon our places of thinking. Itty bitty. Like a one year old human boy child dressed in a suit and tie. Although everything around him was giant sized. This little guy. Felt no fear. He sat watching me and I him. I'd move. He moved. I tried to place him on a tree leaf. He made his way back to me. That's when you know a Spirit Guide or Keeper is reaching toward your present place of unborn history. A Praying Mantis has learned the art of blending its desires and passions with the environment it's chosen to grow with. It teaches how to still the outer mind and go within. How to transcend linear time and move according to the rhythm of nature and inner instinct. The praying mantis can remain motionless and blend with the environment becoming invisible to enemies. They hold the secrets of materialization and dematerialization and teach perception through stillness. In dream symbols, a praying mantis is a telepathic symbol of Angels warning of hypnotic aggression from the "dark side". A praying mantis appearing may be a sign of Angelic protection. Becoming involved in situations where someone may lose their head, in one way or another. The praying mantis has historically been a popular subject of mythology and folklore. In France people believed a praying mantis would point a lost child home. Muslims believe that a praying mantis will point the way to Mecca. In Africa, the mantis was thought to bring good luck to whomever it landed on and even restore life to the dead. In China the praying mantis, is the symbol of the martial arts. European people believed they were worshipful of God since they always seemed to be praying. One legend tells that Saint Francis Xavier called upon it to sing the praises of God and the mantis began to sing canticles. Of course, no discussion of the praying mantis would be complete without mentioning its most infamous "behavior". When relations between the male and female have reached their climax the female will often bite off the head of the male. Some males even require this decapitation in order to copulate. Saturday. Near or next to invisible and brilliantly tiny. This Praying Mantis meant business. If it had been words on a Kindle. I might have excused his presence as footnotes. To which I never read. Or the horridly fast voice on car commercials rapidly explaining that none of this commercial is true unless you are an angel from Heaven and have never lied to a doctor about why you might be ill. Let's break it down. The Praying Mantis didn't come to me in a dream. He or she was physical. It teaches how to "still" the outer mind and go "within." I'm always amazed at how many people don't want you to travel within. As a modern society its looked upon as being conceited to want to meditate and or grow in privacy. And yet...on the opposite side of the journey there tends to be a benefit for all involved making it less selfish. How to transcend linear time and move according to the rhythm of nature and inner instinct. I've never been a fan of the current face of a ticking clock. It's moving too quickly. My heart says I just graduated from high school but reality whispers, "Um 33 years ago." The praying mantis can remain motionless and blend with the environment becoming invisible to enemies. Constantly the new America reminds all worker bees of this no longer being a place of personal growth but rather survival of the fittest. Anytime you show emotion. You've offered a fingerprint to society. Living in the present doesn't mean fighting it. Being aware of how you enter each day helps you blend into a picture willing to change but holds off when fighting against the waves and or doubt floods the foundation...its allowed to take shape in the frame you were hired to keep. How can I not be a maker of noise? I make car commercials. I'm from Montana where the sky alone takes over the essence of believing you can be just as bright and endless. The Praying Mantis holds the secrets of materialization and dematerialization and teaches perception through stillness. When was the last time you did a halfway pushup and didn't move? Arms bent. Chest nowhere near the floor. Listen. Your mind body and soul are talking. What have you elected to ignore?