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Nov
11
2013

Speaking of moving…by Mary Anne Lloyd

on the right track - keep movingOne of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain goes something like this.

“Even if we’re on the right track, we’ll get hit by a train if we don’t keep moving!”

Sometimes we really can’t figure out what to do or sometimes we don’t even know what we would like to do.  How are we supposed to do something when we don’t even know what it is that we will enjoy?  “Find a hobby,” says a therapist.  Really?

And that’s where moving becomes fun.  If we just keep moving in some way, we’re bound to bump into something.  We may not like everything, and sometimes we may run for cover, but generally we stumble across something interesting.  And moving doesn’t have to be formal.  It can be as simple as speaking to the person behind us in line at the grocery store.  It can be striking up conversations with those we see during the week, like the person in the bank. It can be going for a walk in a dog park and meeting dogs and their owners.  Someone we meet may suddenly break into song, or tell us a funny story, or tell us about a caretakers group that we desperately need. Someone may be looking for a yoga buddy. Someone may make us laugh.

We might end up getting a dog.  We might end up helping at the SPCA. We might end up at a Toastmasters meeting just to see what it’s like. We might learn about a good movie to rent on a Friday night. We may learn about some funny play going on in the neighborhood. We may just have a nicer hour in our day.

We can’t always foresee what movement will bring, but life seems to open up in unexpected ways.  And we sure don’t want to get hit by a train.

Tags: forward, keep moving, learn, Mary Anne Lloyd, right track
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Nov
11
2013

What is most important……..What we tell ourselves

AcceptanceThose are the words of Carlee, who lives just outside of Seattle.  She had a unique transformative experience and wants very much to share her learning in hopes that it might help others who really desire to change, but are struggling with moving forward.  Here is her story.

Carlee was experiencing depression, not enough to interfere greatly with her job performance or her ability to have a relationship, but intense enough that she would have very difficult days.  She experienced the frustration of seeming inability to change, followed by weight gain, which further increased her depression.

One evening she was sitting in the front row of a yoga class, when a part of her inner self emerged.  We don’t really know the gender, but will use “he” for reference.   He told her he was her inner bully and began sobbing as he apologized for all the things he had said to her, for all the degrading emotions he had created in her, for all the negative thoughts he had brought forth to make her feel so regretful about herself and the things she had done.  Carlee quietly cried with him as she experienced the heartfelt remorse of this inner being who had come of his own accord to speak with her and say how truly sorry he was.

In the next two months, Carlee lost her physical burden.  The weight seemed to literally fall off day after day. The emotional burdens became lighter. She no longer had those very difficult days.

Carlee’s inner self came unbidden, but she had been working to move forward.  She had discovered the importance of feeling the warmth of the Vancouver sun.  She had gotten to know how her brain works and was both thankful for its quirkiness and thankful to know how to manage it.  She saw the curiosity of space in a bookshelf and the wonder of watching the sand in a 3-minute hourglass during the most stressful part of her day.  She learned to stop.  She learned balance.   She learned to plan wonderful events in the future so when it gets dark and cold she would have some exciting times to think about.

Then her inner self appeared. And that was that.

Folks ask Carlee how she made her changes seemingly so “quickly” and “easily”. She has the following answer for all of us who are stuck while desperately trying to change.  Here it is.

Acceptance.     Forgiveness.    Awareness.    Patience.

 

And as Carlee says, “The rest is just math.”

Thanks Carlee.

Tags: acceptance, awareness, change, depression, forgiveness, hope, innter self, love, move forward, patience, transformative
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