Maybe the title already has you because you are trying to figure out if re-thunk is a word...Who cares....Can you get on board with "Perfection -rethunk" as a way to rewire your ideas about perfection? 🙂
What if perfection evolved from the after-thoughts and reflective feelings of having had an in-the-moment ethereal feeling…like the feeling I have right now after having done Pilates with a small group of women that I adore. I could try to recreate it by doing exactly what I did…arms in perfect position with engagement and traction, hips grounded perfectly, core engaged and firing perfectly ...I keep using “perfectly” because that is how it feels to recall the moments and the aliveness I was (and still AM!!) feeling in my body.
But if I keep trying to recreate it by feeling exactly the same by perfecting the movements, I am missing what was actually so perfect about the sensations, feelings and energy within the class. The actual magic sauce was the amount of presence felt by each one of us; the true connection as we captured one another’s deep feelings; and felt one another’s deep longings for ourselves and for life itself. As we transitioned from sharing through words to movement, we were present to the minute little muscles firing, the itty bitty burn in the chain of deeper energy that lights us up from the inside.
Now, I can go back and TRY to perfect another moment JUST LIKE that ONE, or I can rest back in my breath and breathe in and out “gratitude” for that class, that moment, those feelings, that sunlight in the window and my puppy in my lap.
And then
open up with trust
in my whole being
that it will happen again perfectly,
but only in its own unfolding because
I commit to showing up as I am fully,
but not trying to show up as my mind’s perfect version of me.
Only then can it be perfect in any way.
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