The new year has begun, first with a bang, then a whimper; I spent New Year's Day with a migraine. All of my carefully pre-conceived ideas about meditating, creating space, making plans, lists, quietly reflecting on the new year's potential...into the Puke Pot.
Now I wonder if maybe that wasn't the best thing for me. After years of being concerned with an office job involving lots of detail, and "search and rescue" missions that I took on regardless of whether or not it was specifically "my job", I am trying to explore "macro-managing". Not to say that attention to detail isn't a good thing from time to time; I know how to do that. But I need to learn to see larger pictures, let go a little, enjoy process without trying to control the product too much.
So today there was a Hula Hoop making workshop at The Studio, half a dozen ladies spanning 3 generations, playing, laughing, working...and about 3 turns into applying the tape I realized that I didn't have to create The Perfect Hoop, just my perfect hoop, and suddenly released myself into what I was doing instead of thinking that every turn of the tape was a life-or-death matter. I had a wonderful time, re-learned how to work my body in a way that I hadn't done since I was a child, and remembered that breathing and laughing are as important to what I want to do in the New Year as my lists and carefully laid plans had been before they were...um...thrown out.
Now I am thinking that loosening a little, laughing a lot and letting some things go is what I need to remember to keep 2010 on the right track. Here's hooping!
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