I got angry enough to let go of the crap!

by stephanie on June 2, 2010

I got pushed to the edge. I got angry. I stepped fully into Free Motion Principle #4. Let Go of the Crap.

One of the incarnations of this principle is “Don’t Take on Any New Crap”. One of the incarnations of that is “Don’t Take Any Crap From Anybody”.

The open, embracing part of this is – deflect, defer, ignore.

The charging, sword-bearing part of this is – brush the crap-disher aside, and focus with clarity on what’s really important, because there is no time in life for what is not important.

I came so fully into my sweating, panting, furious, “I will not take this” attitude in my interactions with the legal system and my ex-husband, that it became easy to “not take this” in the rest of my life, including my business.

No time for self-doubt. No time to wonder if what I’m doing is the right thing. No time to question what someone might think of what I’m doing.

Write the email. Make the call. Make the connection. Reach out. Find those people who need what I have. No tolerance for playing small.

We all have something to offer – a combination that no one else has. There is no room, no time, no call for holding back. There is too much crap already. Leave behind what is not needed. Dance around what might hold you back.

Step forward. Breathe and dance your way into being.

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At Kripalu yoga retreat center in the Berkshires for my birthday, I wandered outside onto the lawn at dusk. A deep desire to move was called forth in me by the wooden flute music coming from a seated figure across the way. So I danced on the lawn to the call of the flute.

Later I danced to:

Along the River by Keith Bear, from the album Tribal Winds: Native American Flute Music

and finished off with a song that’s becoming a regular for me for shaking off the emotional junk:

Amajiro, Master Drummers of the Dagbon, Volume 1

Music calls to our soul – flute especially. What’s being called from your soul to be expressed in this lifetime? What will it take for you to answer that call? Comment below.

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I decided to stay up late and finish the preview of my 11 minute video that you are seeing to the right and I thought of Concrete Schoolyard as a tune to get my energy up.  It’s one of my favorites from the days when my ex-husband and I had dancing and hot tub parties [...]

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