“Let yourself be moved. You want to live with a wide open heart? Let yourself be moved. We live most of our lives with our guard way up. Well-built walls protect us from threats, both real and imagined. We are splintered and patched and numb to the core, but we keep our game face on, always. We nurture our skepticism and our cynicism and that tiny kernel of innate distrust until they are larger and harder and more powerful than we ever wanted them to be. We give the bad more power than the good, even when we do not intend to. But we all have moments of brilliance – experiences that wake us up to the sheer beauty of the universe and chip away at our cynicism and distrust. Interactions that feed our souls, open our hearts and convince us that just possibly-maybe-perhaps life really is inherently good. And those moments, my sweet friends, only occur under certain circumstances. When we are safe, or brave, or distracted, or bad-ass-crazy-enough to lower the veils, dismantle the walls, and blast the hell through that numbness into a place of deep feeling. And I mean deep, people. Brilliance never settles for superficial. Brilliance only happens when we let ourselves be moved. Brilliance rarely feels entirely gentle. Yes, it can be transcendent and awe-inspiring and all kinds of fabulous. But it can also be utterly terrifying. Brilliance exists so far outside of our everyday detachment that it can rock our world. Refuse to remain stagnant. Stop accepting the status quo. Reject the idea that you must settle for ‘breathing just a little, and calling it a life’. Read poetry until your body tingles. Go to an art gallery and stare at a painting until you can feel the artist’s brush strokes on your body. Laugh until you cry. Then cry until you laugh again. Give till it makes you uncomfortable. Listen to a symphony and let your heart swell to bursting with the power of the music. Read your poetry for a crowd even if your whole body is shaking. Take a giant leap outside your comfort zone and experience every last bit of the panic that greets you. Let the abundance of life penetrate you deep, until you lose count of the infinite number of ways the universe can move you. Sit with your fear and your insecurity and your jealousy and your paranoia and let them push you past that place that holds you back – past the numbness, past the complacency, past truths fed to you by people who hold you with a limited view. Nurture your genius, your beauty, your inherently trusting nature. Feel your own courage. Fall in love. Create a safe space for someone marvelous to fall in love with you. Dance with fire. Let yourself be moved until you catch a glimpse of your limitless, full-of-potential soul. Hold it within you like the priceless thing that it is and bring it forth as your gift to the world. Dust off your divine spirit and get down with your groovy self. Make friends with your heart, and go down on your knees to thank it for serving you well. No inhibitions. If your body wants to make love in the rain; do it. If your spirit wants to sing Beyoncé in the grocery store; let her. If your soul tells you to body paint a giant canvas in rainbow colors; go and make some supersized art. If your heart wants to fall in love every single day; give it the freedom to run free and seduce the world. Get juicy, get wild, get wanton and lusty. Get turned on by life. Really turned on. Feel everything. Deeply. Let yourself be moved. Let yourself be moved until you are opened wide. Wider. Even wider than you ever thought possible. So wide that you are swimming in brilliance. So wide it does not feel safe. Because safety was never the goal (we were just tricked into believing that it was). Let yourself be moved until you are ready to love more, feel deeper, change things. Let yourself be moved until you radiate your own guru-fab energy. Let yourself be moved until every day begins with a tingle of anticipation that starts in your baby toe and rolls through your body and out into the universe. Let yourself be moved until you are ready to move mountains with the brilliance of your soul. Let yourself be moved.” - Jeanette LeBlanc
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:15:29 +0000
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