Day 2:

Maybe it's only scary in your imagination?

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All right so here I am day two of the uh starting the first hour of the day off by reconnecting to to me and to what I want to happen in my life and giving gratitude to everything and everyone in my life that has ever impacted me and it's it's been going pretty great for day two um day one was awesome it was a great way to start the day yesterday Sunday morning and um this morning 700 a.m. The alarm went off and I bolted out of bed and uh and here I I am again at the same spot in the creek um real quick glance beauty Beauty everywhere so awesome so uh again pardon the hair do uh getting a haircut tomorrow um what I'm realizing in my life is that um sometimes the scariest things um really only end up being scary in my head um when I actually go do them or go actually experience like whatever the whatever I'm afraid of it's amazing what happens because most of the time like 90% of the time it's nothing like what I thought it was going to be yesterday for example after I filmed the first video here I I made a decision like in my in my visualizations of of how I want my life to be and then how I want my day to be I made the decision to go do some ecstatic dance and it's been in my calendar to do ecstatic dance for like months and I hadn't gotten around to doing it I just hadn't done it I was waiting for someone to go with me or whatever there was a whole bunch of really great excuses but the truth was is that I always wanted to check out ecstatic dance and yesterday I made the promise to myself that I was going to go check it out for the first time so right after my my first hour out here and uh went back home made my protein shake drank it down and immediately went to the 11:00 a.m. ...

... ecstatic dance and I was nervous and um it's basically a room full of people just you don't even have to label it dancing they're just moving or staying still or doing whatever they want to music and it's a really awesome space where people just there's no judgment and it's all support and love it's really cool and uh I knew this ahead of time but for whatever reason I was still afraid to go so when I first walked in all of that fear and like my vision of what it was going to be completely completely came to reality it was like this is what it is and there was a group of like 12 people sitting around in a circle and immediately I didn't feel fear cuz there it was it was reality it was 12 people sitting in a circle nothing to be afraid of and immediately it actually felt like home and I sat down and we started the the ecstatic dance and it was amazing it was absolutely amazing so it just has me thinking of all the other ways that I hold myself back from actually just experiencing life because of my own my own stuff coming up so that's that's the thought for the day

Our minds have a sneaky way of imagining a worst-case scenario to keep us safe from doing things that are new. Any time we go outside of our comfort zone, we will be confronted with this reptilian part of our brains telling us it's dangerous and, yep, you're most certainly going to die! And when we hear that voice but choose to move forward anyway, most of the time we find that all that worrying and negative imagination was just plain wrong. We can use experiences in our life to grow and push our comfort zone to expand into a fuller expression of ourselves. And as we expand our comfort zone, we also expand our experience of our lives.

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