Really everything we need to know about life, we did learn in Kindergarten. 
As I reached up to the highest branch of my orange tree, that had the one ripe orange that I wanted to squeexe into my freshly brewed Yerba Mate, the old wooden table just came crumbling down and some of my flesh with it. Ouch! So after a few moans… I got right back up and used the more stable chair to get that same orange. its the second time I actually had a fall in two days. Last night being one in complete dark on a rock… it reminded me of this falling metaphor. Life will always teach us everything we need to be learning.
There is a reason that some of us stop taking risks, or we dont walk in the unknown, dark corridors as we may fall, we may get hurt, so we retreat, create shields and hold on to all our comfort for the lives of us, until we realize that might have hurt us even more. Imagine what our life would look like without the colors, experiences and even adversity that pain creates. That does not mean to cross the street, without looking, or to love a person with all your body and heart, without allowing their actions to show you who they are. There is a lesson in fear itself and a innate intuition in survival – yet – we also must expand, grow, change and hopefully evolve. Pain creates change, learning and depth-Pain is inevitable and suffering is not. Change is always happening and even if we are on track, we must continue to move out of comfort zone, to remain in the flow or life.
Those of you who know me closely, know that i like to eat, I like to play, sometimes indulge, do procrastinate (I call it pause time), I do take risks, I am not perfect, make mistakes, contract, expand, sometimes talk alot and other times not at all and I do my best to grow, learn and be a better person today then I was yesterday..I hope some of you can relate – but even if you are different, who are you, what is your manifestation of how you are happening right now on this planet? Yoga is a tool for observation – something that shows us places where we are right on track and at times..not so much.
So…Its day 5 of the challenge i committed to. Thats all – not even a week – and perfection is not what I am asking for, but its the intention towards us making little choices and actions every day that can help us achieve a more confident, loving sense of ourselves just the way we are.
Perfect in our imperfections and self loving even with our flaws or bumps and bruises from this journey called life – the amazing school of self discovery gives us a C- just so we know there is room for improvement.
Some tips – towards self acceptance and connecting to the innate beauty that already exists within us.
1. Spend some time walking around wherever you live (inside) naked. - Do this fearlessly, shamelessly and remember that most animals dont have clothes to cover themselves up and hide. Let the sun see parts of your body, that perhaps no one else gets to.
2. Spend time barefooted with your feet on the ground and get grounded, connecting to the gravity of earth that provides support, health and just about everything else we actually need for survival.
3. Write about reasons that you may or many not be able to commit to yourself and what distractions arise.
4. FOCUS ON THE GOOD THINGS THAT YOU DO RATHER THEN WHAT YOU DONT DO. Whatever we focus on expands.
5. Spend time, loving your own body, by exercising, bathing and or massaging yourself, or all three.
Its that simple – or maybe not.
I could not do a handstand the first time (or the first 100 times for that matter) and I did fall and sometimes a wrist hurts, etc..but I keep at it and I try to go with the flow of what each day has to show me weather is loans me a seeming dose of great confidence, expansion, outer or inner validation and sometimes great humility. I remind myself often that I am getting exactly what on some level my higher self is asking for.
I sometimes think I am right on track, only to find at times how little I know and how much there is to learn. Yet – I know that its having goals and the great yearning to be the very best version of myself possible, that keeps me coming back to the tools of self love and greater health that are here for us all, even you.
All we have each step of the way and to trust that we need to at least know what we what, where we are going and follow the actions every day, as much as possible, be in alignment with WHAT WE REALLY WANT and who we know we really are.
Thats all for now.
Thank you for your comments, questions, support , sharing with others and being here with me.
We are in this together and as the Bodhi Satvas believe and my teacher Chuck Miller once told me.. “No One Gets Enlightened Until We All Do”
In Service,
Rainbeau
16 comments
-
Sometimes, in yoga, the falls are the most fun. Thanks for making me realize that I need to translate that into life.
-
Rainbeau, thank you so much for this. I’ve been watching and reading since day one of your challenge, and my specific goal is loving myself more. I’m struck by the idea that I’m getting exactly what on some level my higher self is asking for. I get so frustrated and impatient with myself, and then with the people I love. So my hope is that through taking better care of myself and being gentler and more positive with myself, that there will be a softening inside me and I will be more at peace with me and more loving toward those I love. I’ll be back every day for your guidance. I so appreciate your work! From my heart, Sue.
-
This post seems so timely for me… Just injured both my knees this week practicing yoga. Have a history of knee issues so it feels like a major setback filled with lots of negative emotions. Your blog though has helped me put things into perspective. Helping me realize I’m not alone, others fall too, and with time and acceptance the healing will take place. I now feel a strong inner confidence and sense of peace that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. Thanks, Rainbeau, for who you are and all you do.
-
M’Le – your comments are always so cool. You share and give so much. I really appreciate them. Have a blessed day!
-
Insightful words to reflect upon. Familiar with Hay’s work and the importance of being grounded – a discipline that is still very new to me. Will take your thoughts to heart. Thanks, Rainbeau.
-
So glad that its new information for you. Yup. My teacher always says. we go down to go up. That the roots are the tether tot he bird if Prana.
-
This was such a good read, Rainbeau. You are amazing.
-
I love the handstand pic, btw…so inspiring and beautyfull!
I procrastinate with everything. And, when I don’t do yoga I seem to punish myself by putting myself down. But..THat’s one thing I’m working on..trying to change a few things at a time rather than just change my lifestyle all at once. It may help me get to where I’d like to be.
xo