If you can walk you can dance,
If you can talk you can sing.
I love this quote, and I believe it,
do you believe it?
Can you bop along your hallway while the music moves you, while you are home alone?
Can you really belt out a chorus in your morning shower?
I sure can, most of us can.
Can you dance your heart out… sing your heart out…
All on your own? with an attentive audience?
Eeeek! for me - compelled to scuttle back into the shadows…..
What about you?
We see ‘professionals’ sing, dance, perform… on Stage, Media, Movies…
We judge ourselves (and sometimes each other)
and Many of us say:
I can’t dance.
I can't sing.
But, that isn’t really true.
Actually,
We can dance.
We can sing.
We just don’t do it like the ‘professionals’.
Let’s just be with this a minute.
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Ok. this is a deep, painful wound for us.
I believe, from the dawn of human consciousness
we have been singing, we have been dancing
it is in our bones and our blood and our soul.
And we have ceded this to ‘professionals’.
We watch them embodying their love, their sensuality, their life…
and we sit, and we listen, and we watch.
But WE deserve LIFE
ALL of life.
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There are many things in the way of our crazy, wild, delicious life.
One of them is what I call ‘perfect pictures’
Things, I, them, how it is, how its done...
The story that it all Has to be a certain, prescribed way.
Or else it's Not OK.
(I am singing Harry Chapin’s Mr. Tanner, right now ; )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoryhJLz8vI
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So, we want, sometimes we believe
we need to be Great, BEFORE WE START.
Crazy, but true!
Well, you know this is just a story we live-in,
it is a box we allow to hold us back.
I know it can be hard to break out, break through.
But we can!
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I find myself consistently saying to my soul tool classes:
I know you want to write like Shakespeare,
but right now we are learning A, B, C; 1, 2, 3…
and that is Great - keep learning and practicing,
and before you know it, you will be reading, and writing, creating beauty
Even the very best performers, sports stars, etc
Always need to be learning, to be practicing, and to be playing!
And so do we.
Another thing I am constantly saying:
We learn to walk, by falling down.
We are learning to WALK! but it looks like falling down - over and over and over…
When we learned to walk, we were driven, nothing could stop us.
It took time, it took practice, it took a ridiculous amount of falling down!
But we did it - hallelujah!
How did we go from there to:
we need to be Great, BEFORE WE START?!
It goes without saying: this doesn't serve us!
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To start shifting our limits, it must start within us:
Making more room for Life, for Deliciousness, for uncovering our potential!
Don’t you want to start shifting yourself?
Connecting with others who are committed to a similar freedom and self-expresson?
Archimedes said:
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and a lever long enough, and i will move the world.
Don’t you want to get tools and a place to stand,
so you can get out of your old boxes, into your own Greatness?
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Are you in? Make it so:
OWN Your Voice!
Dare to Speak Your Truth, Sing your Beauty
Retreat in Hudson Valley, NY
Labor Day Weekend, 2017
http://OwnYourVoice.info/