"One of the great challenges of finding your sacred purpose is that it shines a light
to those areas of your life that are not alight with the same
vibration. When the soul is on fire, it burns through everything that
doesn't truly resonate with it, leaving only karmic ash in its wake.
This is the up-framing nature of a growthful path- that which distracts
us from the path, that which doesn't share our new resonance, must be
shed so that we can continue to evolve. It’s not always easy to say
farewell to relationships and familiar ways of being, but it comes with
the territory..." Jeff Brown
I am grateful
for the rich tapestry of experience that has been afforded me on this
journey I have accepted. Even when I find myself taking 2 or 3 goes
around the same block until I finally get it - they are 2 or 3 separate
micro journeys for me to receive more refined insights. Sometimes I do
have to ask the same question more than once. With patience and love I
am discovering my place here and my role. With impatience, I trip over
myself, get up and take the necessary steps back. I am rarely what
others think they know.
I am driven to do what I was put here to do.
Compelled. Every. Single. Day.
I have come to recognize the difference between what will require diligence, focus and commitment and what I should run from. And who does not belong in my life. Thank you, Kindred for that reminder. I will probably need reminding again, but now I know the sensation.
My body tells me. My body tells me every time.
I also, finally, see the strange gift my
parents gave me...
Curious how when I'm following my path, it
may not always be easy but I am filled with a sense of knowing. I may
be terrified of what is coming next (my new workshop, Love Your Body,
Love Your Life! next weekend), but I am absolutely certain
I'm on my path. This is mine and this is what I am here for. The
workshop may be a rousing failure, but that won't change anything. I
have true friends attending and with the help of their feedback and my
own insight I will have the tools to tweak, adjust and even make
changes.
This
is far from my first workshop and I don't remember ever being this
scared! I have been guiding students to move their bodies for almost
half my life (trivia: did you know that I started my career in somatic
practice coaching gymnastics?). This I can do and
all of the workshops I've shared in the past have been connected to the
concept of moving bodies to improve movement and fitness. Movement to
get better movement.
This
time, movement is going to play a slightly different role. Movement to
get better. Nope, I didn't forget to finish the sentence.
Movement to get better.
Movement as Medicine.
Move to Heal.
As Debbie Rosas Stewart (one of the creators of Nia) has said on numerous occasions, "Feel to Heal"
My path. My life. Sharing my gifts. In August this was spoken publicly and acknowledged. The most interesting thing about this particular train of thought for me is that while this is my path, it's not about me. What has recently been revealed to me is that the work I am intended to share is mine to share because of the gifts I have been given. It has far less to do with what I am comfortable sharing, working with or with what I already know. So while it's lovely to imagine that I'm doing what I've been put on earth to do - the really lovely part about it is that it's going to take a tremendous amount of work!
I am here to remind anyone who wants to know this:
Your body will not lie to you.
Your body will not lie to others either.
Your body will not design coping mechanisms to soften the clattering of information hitting you every second. It doesn't need to.
Your body will not deny, avoid or put off giving you the information you need to have.
Our bodies are designed to give us all the information we need in order to take care of ourselves. We can dishonor this gift by overriding and disregarding Sensation, the language of the body, in order to make mental decisions.
Or we can remember how to listen and remember how to live in these remarkable bodies.
Rediscover how to Love Your Body, Love Your Life!
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