What in life moves you? Life invites us to engage both internal and external movement. These organized interchanges feed into one another as an important means of nourishment for building self awareness. Sometimes we feel an emotional response that brings to life a colorful landscape of nuances, and with that awareness, we move in our bodies differently. Other times, we engage the motion of our muscles and these undulations reverberate into our inner space, bringing a release of openness to life.
To be in motion is to be alive ... so what in life moves you? Have you lost touch over time with this connection? Have you started settling for an average existence, lowering your expectations or just giving up? All that is needed is to become aware. Become aware of the settling & compromising; become aware of the restriction in your self expression; become aware of the contrasts in your life ~ the limitation & the accessibility, the openness & the tension, the effort & the ease. Bring your focus back to what is most important to you, and recognize the parts you have neglected, ignored, dismissed & forgotten. Just become aware of whatever you can as you stand in this place right now. This is your starting point and your password for re-entry.
Notice if you use external movement to turn on your inner connections. Do you run, play sports, do something that gets your heart and adrenaline pumping ... and then you feel more open to life, more alive? Notice if you use internal movement to wake up your outer connections. Does the invitation to be with others motivate you to move, like exercising in a class or walking with a friend? Do you find inspiration from engaging the internal spaciousness that breathes expansion into your body and provides permission to move in your own unique way? Notice when you laugh or cry, do you hold your body still, or can you let go into the laughter or sobbing and feel the ripples of motion in your body that provide support for this release?
Often times, our symptoms bring movement into a held place of perspective. Pain brings the recognition that movement is needed. Pain can bring us into an emotional place where expression is demanded. And yet, we still resist this invitation for movement, holding in the sounds, the tears, the anger & helplessness, as if we believe that giving in will bring more of the same rather than the release that leads to freedom. Yet movement of emotion and body fosters the ability to shift in our thoughts. Our perspectives are rooted in the body, and bring together body & mind as a single sensory organ. And all this fluidity gives us a way to clear the stagnancy that interferes with our connection to what's most important in our lives. Your priorities will eventually re-emerge from the clearing of your movement.
So I ask you again, what moves you? While this is a question in search of an answer, it is also a seed for focus, an invitation to reorient to your changing needs every day. The answers may be the same for awhile, but they will eventually change, expand and reorganize. Keep asking the question like a hand extended in generosity to yourself, inviting you to grow and stretch into the unknown territory of your aliveness. Life is meant to move you ... so reach out and accept the gift of each new day with a willingness to reawaken your passion for living a life that moves you!
To be in motion is to be alive ... so what in life moves you? Have you lost touch over time with this connection? Have you started settling for an average existence, lowering your expectations or just giving up? All that is needed is to become aware. Become aware of the settling & compromising; become aware of the restriction in your self expression; become aware of the contrasts in your life ~ the limitation & the accessibility, the openness & the tension, the effort & the ease. Bring your focus back to what is most important to you, and recognize the parts you have neglected, ignored, dismissed & forgotten. Just become aware of whatever you can as you stand in this place right now. This is your starting point and your password for re-entry.
Notice if you use external movement to turn on your inner connections. Do you run, play sports, do something that gets your heart and adrenaline pumping ... and then you feel more open to life, more alive? Notice if you use internal movement to wake up your outer connections. Does the invitation to be with others motivate you to move, like exercising in a class or walking with a friend? Do you find inspiration from engaging the internal spaciousness that breathes expansion into your body and provides permission to move in your own unique way? Notice when you laugh or cry, do you hold your body still, or can you let go into the laughter or sobbing and feel the ripples of motion in your body that provide support for this release?
Often times, our symptoms bring movement into a held place of perspective. Pain brings the recognition that movement is needed. Pain can bring us into an emotional place where expression is demanded. And yet, we still resist this invitation for movement, holding in the sounds, the tears, the anger & helplessness, as if we believe that giving in will bring more of the same rather than the release that leads to freedom. Yet movement of emotion and body fosters the ability to shift in our thoughts. Our perspectives are rooted in the body, and bring together body & mind as a single sensory organ. And all this fluidity gives us a way to clear the stagnancy that interferes with our connection to what's most important in our lives. Your priorities will eventually re-emerge from the clearing of your movement.
So I ask you again, what moves you? While this is a question in search of an answer, it is also a seed for focus, an invitation to reorient to your changing needs every day. The answers may be the same for awhile, but they will eventually change, expand and reorganize. Keep asking the question like a hand extended in generosity to yourself, inviting you to grow and stretch into the unknown territory of your aliveness. Life is meant to move you ... so reach out and accept the gift of each new day with a willingness to reawaken your passion for living a life that moves you!
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