At the Barre
Jun. 28th, 2011 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
…but the gestures, once allowed out, teach us how to dance further into our own lives.
It's little steps right now… following a halting path, but at least it's steps… I know that maybe even a few days ago, I would have said nothing about what happened to me today, not to anyone… I would have just fretted, and bottled it all and the people that needed to know wouldn't have known – except that there was obviously something wrong that I wasn't talking about. Instead I opened up my big yap and said something… and about a subject that naturally makes me uncomfortable. It's not a pirouette, but it's a little step.
When was the last time you danced?
--Question put to the sick by a Native American Medicine Man
…but the gestures, once allowed out, teach us how to dance further into our own lives.
It's little steps right now… following a halting path, but at least it's steps… I know that maybe even a few days ago, I would have said nothing about what happened to me today, not to anyone… I would have just fretted, and bottled it all and the people that needed to know wouldn't have known – except that there was obviously something wrong that I wasn't talking about. Instead I opened up my big yap and said something… and about a subject that naturally makes me uncomfortable. It's not a pirouette, but it's a little step.
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So proud of you!
Date: 2011-06-27 11:41 pm (UTC)