Who you are

Well my friends some things have come to light recently.

As I completed the first week of P90x and enjoyed the challenge of eating mindfully, with purpose and moving my body in some familiar and unfamiliar ways I've been "thinking" quite a bit.

Last night I bagged up 3 bags of clothes that no longer fit me but that I've hung onto.

I have to tell you the "fat girl" and the "slow, back of the pack 'try-athlete'" are screaming at me to hang on to these definitions. Does this surprise me? Yes, quite a lot.

So I ask you what definitions of yourself do you hang onto?

I'm just a BOPer

I'm so fat

I'm afraid

I don't have the power

I am slow

Are there dreams you have kept hidden and under the cover of the self-imposed definitions of yourself? What are they? Are you allowing your light to shine or is it too scary to become the everything and anything you are?

It's a quote I'm sure you've heard but I'm putting it here for reflection:

"Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us: We ask ourselves ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of god. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It is not in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson