monday's mantra: anything is possible
i was the child at recess who no one wanted on their kickball team. i dreaded the tortuous process of picking teams, as i knew i would remain the last one chosen.
season - used on the court only as a very last resort.
i was the girl in p.e., who often faked illnesses to free herself from the humiliation that just one class held.
i was the kid who sat on the bench during basketball
season - used on the court only as a very last resort.in high school, i took up running . . . only to discover i had exercise induced asthma. i tried ballet, but lacked the long, graceful limbs of a dancer. i even gave gymnastics a go, but was told i'd never reach the level of the other girls who had begun much younger.
so when a group of students asked me this weekend, had i always been able to do handstands? - i had to laugh.
no. no way.
in fact, until just a few years back, i was the one who just watched others with envy as i clung to the story of my youth. me. this young girl who locked possibility inside walls of doubt and insecurity - finally grew into a woman, obsessed with its liberation.
fear did not evaporate like magic - and to this day, skepticism still tries to wrap its arms around promise, stifling the bloom.
but now, something has shifted. i don't want to sit on the bench and watch - and i'll risk falling and failure just so i don't have to.
and what i've discovered is that much of what i thought was impossible - for me, anyway - has become possible. each time i explore my limits - my limits change. i have to now wonder what sense there is for me to ever build such fences again.
because, honestly, there is only one thing i know for certain - i am clueless of what i'm capable of. clueless. i can't even begin to imagine what possibility and promise i hold.
though i do plan on spending the rest of my life trying to find out!
join me this weekend and next, for two special workshops exploring inversions. the first weekend, we will explore headstand and other basic inversions - and the next will focus purely on handstanding.
find out what YOU'RE capable of!
I spend so much of my life now testing my limits. Three years ago, I would have rather been invisible than fail. This weekend, I practiced something I am good at, skiing, which reminded me that I learned over a decade to feel so comfortable. With practice - let alone the first step of trying even in the face of fear - we open possibilities.
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