Day Six: Your limits are not sustainable

 Before I begin today, I just wanted to state that I did do a workout yesterday. And then committed myself to rest and recovery for the remainder of the day.

This morning as I assessed where I was at mentally in this journey, I realized even though there is some proficiency to how I apply the skills, tools, and resources, I am not feeling as much in the energy of "play" that sustainable change requires.

There is a correlation between non-serving beahviours, thoughts, and actions and the unsustainable aspects of life. 
Now of course, the experience of most things wane in and out in our lives. And what I have seen over and over again is that the "fruit" of serving thoughts, behaviours, and actions help you to experience life and living in a more sustainable way.

Hydration is a requirement for our survival. Consuming nutrients helps us to have the building blocks our body needs to keep us going. Healthy realtionships help to bring us long term emotional balance and connection. These things in continued practice contribute to our longevity and a life well-lived...or liveable.

However, there are other factors that we could engage with that contribute to the degradation of our health and well-being, leaving us feeling worn out, burntout and ultimately stuck in a rut that doesn't feel good or that we would want to continue experiencing.

There is also a space in the middle of these things... some things that do serve for our well-being but only for a short while. And also the "elephant" in the room... many unserving things that you have been in the practice of for a long time in your life that you may or may not feel would even "need" change as you have identified with it for so long.

I have one of "those" non-serving "thoughts" that have lingered for so long. 

"What shows up as good and celebrated in my life will be taken away from me... in some shape or form."

- My Olympic dream of becoming a figure skater...

- Playing my key role in a school drama production (Pirates of Penzance) 

- Degrees and designation

- Food

- Emotional expression in a relationship withheld

- Money

- Artworks stolen

- My fitness and recovery achieved in 2021


I can't answer why these things got "taken" away from me. I know there was some dysfunction, discrimination, and harm in some of these situations, but they played a key rolle in shifting me OFF the course I was so set on being.

I'm still working on reframing some of them. All of which I use as tools in my coaching. Examples of ways to stay true to yourself and your vision IN SPITE OF opposition, roadblocks, obstacles, and even self-sabotage.

The height of creation, play, wonder, and joy in our lifetime will always continue to shine. However, when we go through "darker" moments in our life, it can be hard to remember that vision you hold, or that beautiful moment and pleasure in your life as brightly as before.

This is where writing in a journal, creating a vision board, or keeping verbal and visual reminders on the walls around you can help you to be personally supported by the goodness of the life you are living and have lived thus far.

SO if you have held a limit for a long time it's because you had to re-invent it over and over again. Yes, the thread does run through many circumstances in my life, but I no longer start my day looking for how the good in my day will be stepped on or stomped out. I don't start my day re-hashing what my limited life is "supposed" to look like. I don't run through the script of why I "don't" do this or that.

Instead, I allow the natural flow of rest and recovery from sleep infuse my day with vitality. I wake up expecting energy and lucidity of mind. I expect to be divinely gifted and supported throughout my day. I believe that Joy is a river that naturally flows in our lives. It just IS. I don't have to say or do anything. I could sit in bed all day and just watch the nature out my window doing its thing. I choose to enjoy things moment to moment with a deep appreciation. It is almost effortless. The "effort" comes from what "meanings" may arise that come from past and limiting beliefs. Sitting with them as they arise and either accepting it and allowing it to pass or to acknowledge and reframe it to serve me and the moment I am in.

How can you bring stillness to spinning wheels? Keep choosing to be in the space of stillness by taking your foot off the gas for a moment. It can be as simple as choosing to take in a deep, long, slow breath and be in the space of noticing its sound and movement.


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