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Lately in the midst of our changing times, I keep recalling a wonderful Cuban wisdom: “You can’t take from me the dances that I’ve danced.” It reminds me of the fierce confidence that comes from being exuberantly alive. I have a client that had always wanted to go on an African safari, but she was afraid to take the time and money to do it. When she did it, she came back changed: brightened, fearless and free. It’s a change that has stayed with her. Talking about the changing climate of her job, she said recently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], “No matter what happens in my life now, I’ll always have had Africa.” I can feel her glow through the phone lines. The stock market will fluctuate, the housing market will burp, but joy is eternal. It’s an abundance and solidity that never leaves your bloodstream.
Here is my dearest hope for our changing times. I hope more of us will turn our eyes away from the crumbling wreckage of conditions we knew, and turn our eyes toward what is now available. Alfred Lord Tennyson said, “The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
I recently spent some time writing in a cabin with a kiva and streaming sunlight coming through the windows,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in northern New Mexico. It reminded me how healing it is to do the things that matter to your soul. I wrote in my journal, “Some things are an answer in and of themselves. They are little vials of faith. They are medicine in which the illness you didn’t even know you had begins to clear up.”
Many of us put our dreams on hold to take care of the “more important” matters of earning a living. Many got comfortable in the postponement fantasy of “retirement.” Someday, in utopia, over the rainbow, we’d be able to do what we’d really want. We’d grind our teeth on Mondays meanwhile, or sleepwalk through the week and collect our paycheck. I think the Universe is now saying, now or never. You didn’t come here to planet Earth to wait for your chance. This is your chance. You have more love, genius, and invincibility inside you than you realize. Do what you love now. Tap your secret advantages. Doing what you love isn’t just fun. It’s crucial.
I’m not saying you have to quit your job or abandon all attempts to support yourself. I’m saying that it would help you immensely to take things you love off the back burner and put them on the front one. Think about it. How can it be that the activity that gives you the most aliveness and fulfillment is extraneous to your life? Why would you be drawn, sometimes for years on end, to something useless? It’s not just that you’ll enjoy the hours you spend on painting or playing chess. It’s that doing what you love changes your brain chemistry, your energy levels, and your entire outlook on life.
Giving love to others or doing things that fascinate you changes the way you think. You will make better decisions when you come from love. You will have access to more choices, insights,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and possibilities when your mind is calm and feeling bright and engaged and in a “I feel good” groove. You may take more risks or seize opportunities because you feel more confident. Let’s face it, you might not make the best decisions from the “I’m in fear and I’ll do anything, no matter the cost,” zone. In fear, you spend more money, choose small and tawdry, and do things you realize later were shortsighted. You’re impulsive and reactive instead of big-hearted, sweet-brained
You’ve been living your life from the tip of the iceberg. You have exponential resources beyond your habitual mind. There is a sweeping energy in love and a life-altering vitality in creativity. The poet Octavio Paz captured it this way “Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be everything he is, everything he desires: another body, another being.” The inspired self always knows an ultimate security.