Do you find that you start a project excited, gung-ho and full of energy? Then you find as you try to keep up that pace, you fizzle out? It’s that feeling of a car revving up and up until it totally runs out of gas. I think our bodies wonder….”is she excited or stressed?” It gets confused and tired after a while!
I get it! I am there! I am what the Kolbe index calls a “Quick Start” through and through. I tend to jump high and fast with both feet into whatever I intend to do. I excitedly work at a high pace giving it 110% until I run up against a barrier of some sort, then I crash. Then it’s “Oh crap, what am I doing”?
I am learning that I need to ask myself at that point, “Deb, what do you really need right now”? The answer is almost always deep rest or play, because both are needed to survive this crazy life that we all live! Then…..after awhile……I dust myself off, and begin again…..but slowly…..in turtle steps. I want to work toward significant change, but I can’t get there at such a high-speed. I need to align my body, soul and spirit to work in unison between rest and play. Then magic can happen that I could never had caused with my quick start brute force!
We can have an unlimited source of energy if we listen to our essential selves (our true selves that we were born with). It’s that little voice that is inside of us that we know is there, but we so often ignore. She is very wise and has been through a lot. She knows you like know one else does. She knows your dreams and what you are capable of.
Close your eyes ~ breath in the quietness ~ there, can you feel her now ~ follow her lead.
