Theme: I Love
Acknowledging our choices
Chapter 4: Acceptance & Your Upper Back
For chakra healing, physical healing, or strength training, no matter what your goals are, the whole process is an inner exploration of knowledge. You can’t speed it up, you can’t skip the parts you don’t like, and there is no finish line. You don’t stop just because you reached a place you thought you wanted to get to when you started. You don’t run a marathon and then hack off your feet. You don’t reach your weight loss goals and instantly start binge-eating sheet cake a la Tina Fey on Weekend Update. Because you learned so much along the way, and you know what energy kcals that cake costs. Your actions have a value. Your goals have a value. Neglect has repercussions you’ve felt before. And at some point you come to a place of peace with that. Transformation takes patience and never truly ends. Your road will be bumpy. Be compassionate with yourself.
Acceptance
Just as we want to reach inner acceptance with ourselves and our own journeys (as hard as that is), we still want to feel accepted by the world around us. We want to fit in and be appreciated. We want to share our journey with other people that understand where we are at. The first and easiest action is to surround ourselves with only people that already agree with us and give us praise, and for us to shame or lash out at any signs of conflict. And when we go back to our safety circle who rewards our actions, we feel justified and the cycle intensifies.
But not all praise is good for us. And not all conflict is danger. Not everyone who loves us is good for us. Personal growth is hard, and not all our loved ones will take the same path as us at the exact same time, or understand our choices. You will lose some people you love over the choices you make, be it short term or permanently. For good or bad. And vice versa. And that is what it is. It’s ok. It’s all a part of new growth.
Below in the comments are some strengthening exercises and stretches for your upper back that remind me a little of flying. It’s hard on our human bodies to be these heavy, flightless birds. Our backs can get tired from carrying the weight of our own world all the time, but they can also pull us through the water when we need to swim to safety. If we try to take good care of it, it can try to take care of us too.
Jet Tries 