Month: May 2015

Babies are quite literally built to hold on—their tiny fingers grasp by reflex, before they are even able to consider what it means to have a person that they can cling to.

What is the largest thing that you hold on to?

Just imagine it for a moment. Lying sprawled, belly up, with no need to protect or defend or judge any part of yourself. Completely relaxed. Completely at ease. Completely at home.

What helps you to stretch out and feel safe and at ease?

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
—Oscar Wilde

What mistake have you never regretted?

Maybe you don’t know quite how you got to this place in life. Maybe it isn’t what you imagined, or what other people expected of you. No matter. The question is how you find a place of balance, wherever you have come to rest.

What helps you feel balanced in the place you occupy at this moment in your life?

What does a duck, rubber or otherwise, need with a flotation device? Sure, sometimes we all need a little help to keep our heads above water, but sometimes you just have to trust yourself to jump in and paddle.

What part of your life might benefit from a little more willingness to just jump in?