Leap - Personal Practice

I have wanted to make some changes in my life for some time now.  Drastic changes!

I couldn’t bring myself to do it.  

I have been so attached to the way I live my life and have been living it for a long time.

Then I slowly started to notice changes in my personality and how I was living my life that lead me down a path I had been on before.  Deeply entrenched in a way of living I wanted so badly to escape and had almost accomplished it once.

By “a path I had been on before” I mean that I started to find ways to “Band-Aid” my life.  I felt that I could persevere through this or that by fixing it with a “Band-Aid”.  For example; a new house, new friends, a new car, a new eating routine, or a new exercise routine.  And the list goes on.

It’s empowering and exciting to think of a “Band-Aid”.  If you are like me you start to think how that is going to make you happy and make the things you are having difficulty with easier to bear.

Years ago I took a break from this way of thinking.  I tried to stop “Band-Aiding” my life.  It worked for a while, but then I found myself getting scared of the change in life-style and subtly started the process of adding the “Band-Aid’s” again.  I did this until I was right back on the path I had been down before.

This week has been different!  I took a leap!  

I decided to make a drastic change.  But I do not take this change lightly.  My challenge is to take a new attitude and to take personal responsibility for myself and my attitude toward life.  

This means I will be more aware of the “Band-Aid’s” I try to add to my life.  I will practice being responsible for my happiness from within.  I am my house.  I am my mode of transportation.  I am what I eat.  I am responsible for my health.  I am my best friend!

All the things I look to fix my life, I will stop and ask myself if I have it within first.  I will ask myself if I need the external “Band-Aid” or if I can “Self Heal”.

This I know will not be easy.  I want this change.  I will own responsibility on this journey.

I’m glad I took the Leap!!!

Leap - Yoga Lesson

What does it mean to you to leap?  Maybe it’s taking a risk or trusting your instincts?

So often we want to take a chance and do something different, but then we start to think about all the ramifications of a leap.

We have difficulty stepping out of our routines or visualizing our future outside of the path we have started on.

How about taking a look at some of the leaps you would like to make, but are over thinking, and determining where they fit on a low to high risk scale.

If you need more time to think about it, most likely you are not ready.  This is okay!

Remember, change can be scary.

Something we want to do deep in our hearts may require changes to our life that we want, but are difficult to implement all at once.  

Take small steps.  Give yourself time as needed.

On the other hand, if you are itching to take a leap to change and you can answer with passion from deep within that you are ready and want to change.  Do it!

Leap!