Thinking bigger with your music
Staying too long at the fair has it disadvantages yet sometimes we’re just not ready to leave.
I have been there numerous times throughout my life and looking back I have had to feel my way out of the abyss especially when the idea of regret emerges. Combatting the idea of regret the truth is I just wasn’t ready to take a leap of faith. I wasn’t ready to trust myself enough to let go. The expression “Let Go and let God” rings so true here.
So, let’s just say you’re in this place of knowing that you are already too big for the pond. There is a way out, I promise and sooner than later is doable too.
First of all, you can start with being willing to be honest with yourself and listen to your heart…what feels right, what makes sense? To be mindful that while you are jammed up here that by asking yourself if you are taking advantage of the high and low notes of the music you are meant to create as your life-long theme song or if being stuck is serving your growth or if your hopes and dreams are able to withstand the stagnation?
Being very present while in this waystation of growth, reflection and recovery you can also think about believing if there is an opportunity to create an image for the future with you being in control. Just what does your exit strategy look like.
To imagine something better and manifest a life which will hopefully align with your higher self takes a deliberate and conscious effort to OWN that you alone can be comfortable in imagining something better. To learn to refine and support and trust yourself to manifest a bigger life is super important. Why? Because it’s obvious that if we just lay in wait each time we find ourself in this place of non-movement with the same thinking we are letting time pass through and we know that it appears that our time is speeding up, right?; we are taking advantage of the gift of why we are here…to be the best that we can be.
I was in a relationship when I was in the 20’s with a man who was a famous athlete and had his hands in many pies and all over every woman that came to swoon around him. I came from a small Orange County town living a Beach Boys type of life with summers full of sun and surf year-round and at a time where life appeared so simple, so sweet and kindly predictable. Now, here I was a fish out of water living in a big Midwest city full of noise, dirty streets, blustering winters and scorching summers.
Accompanying me at this young age was already extra baggage and a mindset deeply ingrained with the idea that when someone told you that they loved you that it meant honesty, trust, security. In this new world I froze, the hamster wheel was out of control and I stayed in my pond being consumed by many insecurities that inhibited my moving on.
I went about my days going back and forth with some really annoying dialogue as to what I needed to do next to make him see life MY way and then after a while I got so sick and tired of being sick and tired I sprinted out of the pond with such grace and reassurance that I was going to be just fine; I walked away feeling like I was just given an extra breath of fresh, beautifully life-enhancing air to breath.
As we experience what appears to be many more challenges in our world today, I find that it is up to me alone to do what I need to do to show up as healthy and mindful every day and not to allow the world to dictate what I need to do. I already have, as do you, the essentials of who I am and where I’m going. I know that in order to do the rest of my life well I am responsible to listen to the stories of my past with a ‘light touch only’ and if I get tripped up then I do. But I do my process in extricating myself from the pond with much more gusto and focus!
Keep doing what you love to do. Pay attention to what brings you the most joy. Partner up with that feeling and allow yourself to simply trust that more great learnings await you while you do your life’s homework.
With grace while always Imagining Something Better.
‘I think I should have no other mortal wants if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music’’
– Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
With heartfelt loving for a beautiful tomorrow,
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