If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, They’re Not Big Enough.
Tell You What I Want, What I Really,
Really Want.
What do you really want? Boy
does this question stick with me.
When
was the last time I had asked myself that question and answered honestly?
I’m pretty good at asking but as soon as I go to reply the answer
actually becomes “this is what I think is possible” or “this is what I think I
should do for my career” or “this is what my friends and family want.”
It’s hard not to let our conditioning
and society’s pressures answer the question for us.
What in my heart of hearts do I
really want?
What does my soul long for?
What will satisfy the deep
yearning inside of me?
I think the only way to answer this
question is to do it spontaneously.
So here’s what I really want, written in no
particular order but with spontaneity and fervor.
I want to sleep in for a month with
no reason to get up, no place to be and nothing to do.
I want to wake up every morning and
gasp at the incredible and beautiful views that surround me.
I want to ease my way into the day
with long cups of Green Tea, good books and quietness.
I want to experiment with my yoga
practice for hours at a time, falling, giggling, and conquering.
I want to feel space inside every
part of my body and all around me.
I want to fall deeply in love in a
way that feels warm and secure and crazy and passionate all at once.
I want to teach all kinds of yoga to
all kinds of people and bask in the pleasure of practicing together.
I want to blog my heart out, putting
it all out there in the hope that someone feels just the same.
I
want to cook beautiful fresh food and feed my body with so much prana it starts
to glow.
I want to listen every day to deep
silence where all I can hear is the beat of own my heart and my long slow
breathing.
I want to ski so madly I can barely
breathe.
I want to feel deeply, deeply
connected to everything and everyone around me.
I want to feel breathless every day
because I am so overwhelmed by what nature has to offer.
I want to hike to such high remote
places that I become terrified and exhilarated by the power of the mountains
and Mother Nature.
I want to love myself completely
every single day.
For so long I have not defined what I
really want.
When I look at this list above it hardly seems impossible, in fact
it almost seems as if the list is full of simple things.
They say good things come in threes.
As luck, or the universe would have it, the third friend is one
who believes in possibility. A belief that in fact means we do not know from
second to second what is possible. There are possibilities out there every day
that we have not even thought of.
So I write my list of what I really
want with the conviction that anything and everything is possible and the
belief that just because I do not know all the possibilities does not mean they
could not happen.
And so as we all slide or slink into
2013, I make this my year of pleasure, prana and most importantly possibility.
And I dare you, to write your own
list of what you really want and to believe that it is all possible.
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