Risk: Act in Such a Way as to Bring About Possibility
I just got back from a weekend-long yoga retreat, and something like that is a great opportunity to take a break from the ordinary and the everyday. It's a chance to check in and see if how you are living your life is how you want to be living your life.
Here’s a meditation I read to the group, and it seems as ripe with possibility as a new week dawns as it did for our weekend together. Enjoy.
Risk pausing. Risk giving up your to-do list, your resentments, your shoulda, woulda, couldas. Risk turning down the volume of your thoughts and doing your best to be here now.
Risk opening yourself up to what you do not know.
Risk acknowledging there are things you cannot control. Risk holding close that part of you that needs to be in control and seeing that part of you with kindness and understanding, because it’s a big world out there.
Risk listening to someone who is completely different than you are. Risk listening in a way that might leave you changed.
Risk revealing, whispering the truth about what hurts, whispering the truth about what makes you afraid.
Risk whispering, “I’m okay.” Risk believing that, living as if that were true, because it is. You are okay.
Risk trusting that whatever happens, with time and intention, you can heal.
Risk opening to the big and wild energy that plays at the edges of your life. Risk paying attention to what the center of your being is whispering to you. Risk manifesting your dreams, starting with one small step, then another, then another.
Risk trying something hard. Risk trying something so hard that it’s probable that you will fail. Risk getting back up and trying again. And again.
Risk sitting with what arises and staying with it and saying, “This belongs.” Risk feeling it all.
Risk doing. Risk being. Risk saying yes. Risk saying no.
Risk being real.
Risk grounding and rooting and knowing so deeply who you are that you shine with a light for all to see.
Risk trusting the world with who you are. Risk trusting the world to bring you the people and experiences you need to grow and change and stretch. Risk trusting yourself. You know.
You know who you are and what matters to you.
Risk being strange and weird, brave and kind in a world that desperately needs you to be strange and weird, brave and kind.
Risk trusting that you’ve got this, whatever it is you are facing right now.
Risk love. Risk softening. Risk surrendering. Risk opening, so you can live light and shine
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