My favorite time to wander through Times Square is when the sun starts to set, when the lights begin to glow and you can feel the energy ramp up. Day people intermingle with night people, the sidewalks get thick and impossible, but there's a choreography to the chaos.
New York City is my favorite place to practice moving meditation. Sometimes when there's so much movement and chaos around you, the only way to survive it is to draw within, to check in with your own breath, to become firmly planted within yourself. The opposite of that is panic. Panic pulls you out of yourself, and you start breathing in rhythm with the chaos around you.
My advice to people who get overwhelmed traveling in cities, is that when it feels like things are moving too fast and you start to panic from the chaos, stand up against a building. The building is planted, grounded, and will support you until you feel it within yourself too.
I love the way these photos capture the stillness inherent in chaos.
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