It is all about slowing down, taking time for yourself and establishing new habits that will last a lifetime.
Theme – Letting Go – Letting Flow
The focus this week was to loosen and melt some of the crusty resistances that keep us stuck in old ways, from the body to our dreams.
When you insert awareness into any ordinary task, and repeat it every day, you create a sense of ease and fluidity that could be described as effortless, spacious magic.
What has helped you experience greater fluidity, ease, and spacious detachment this week?
One of my favourite quotes is …
Sing like no one is listening. Dance like nobody's watching and live like it's heaven on earth.
I seem to know the concept of it and love the idea but that is often as far as it goes. I worry. I worry mostly that I am not good at whatever I have put my mind to doing. I worry because I am a perfectionist and hate the idea of something not being quite right, or to get things wrong and, as a result of all that worrying I often do not do things for fear of getting it wrong or that it will not be worthy in the eyes of others.
If I am involved in anything, or should I say when I am involved in something then I am totally committed to doing the very best I can, but even that is not quite right … I have to do it perfectly. This stems back to my childhood when unless you were top of the class, first in all tests, score the best marks and be outstanding at all things then you were simply a failure. There was no room for coming 2nd in anything … winning was the only outcome acceptable.
Consequently, that is what I strive for, and even though as an adult I know it is impossible to achieve constantly I am pre-programmed to still aim that high. The outcome is that when I do not achieve perfection it feels like a total tragedy.
All upbringings come with good and bad traits, but whichever end up so ingrained are the ones that can govern our whole lives. Maybe, that is why I am so passionate about encouraging others to write, why I install so much effort into boosting self-confidences, and inspiring in others the safety that it is okay to try (and to get things wrong).
Maybe I should listen more to the way I am with others and not to my inner demons.