"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."  H. Jackson Brown
 
I had dinner with a friend the other evening.  We talked about a new business venture she recently became part of and how excited she was about the possible income she could make by just talking to five people.  "Possible?" I asked, and invited her to talk more about what that meant.

 

She looked at me with naked eyes as though I had seen through her vulnerability.  She shrunk into her body, and in the tiniest voice said, "I am paralyzed.  I cannot move.  I don't know how to do this".    

 

I don't know about you, but I have been there before.  I know what it feels like to be stuck and steeped in the heaviness of immobility.  I know how it feels to carry the burning desire to want something so bad, and the burden of believing it will never really happen.  I know what it is like to feel that I have been asleep for a very long time.

 

In my quest to move out of a state of stasis and bravely transport my entire being into action, I get to feed my soul with the flavors of being in motion.  I mix together a cupful of releasing my grip, a tablespoon of curiosity, three teaspoons of paying attention, ¼ cup of   eagerness, ¾ cup of vitality, four heaping tablespoons of choosing to change my beliefs, and a couple of handfuls of spicy inspiration.  I place the mixture into a vessel of transformation and allow it to brew into a luscious potion.  I taste it, I savor it and I feel my spirit fly.  I am in the motion of action.

 

Being Alive is and Art! 
Barbara Krauss
The Centre for Experiential Immersion