What does it take, to create the space, in mind and body, for the soul to come through? For our light to fully shine?

I love the quote by Robert Bly, where he says “People too healthy, too determined to jog, too muscular, may use their health to prevent the soul from entering. They leave no door. Through the perfection of victory they achieve health, but the soul enters through the hole of defeat”.

I’ve experienced this myself. The obsession with working out 6 times a week and eating super strict, consumed with the goal of dropping fat or looking shredded. It put myself into a state of perpetual stress… of constant tension which made it difficult to ever loosen up. To literally let my fascia unwind, and my nervous system calm, my diaphragm to drop and my brow to soften. Tightness can be great, and so can working out, but the flip side is also important.

Sometimes it’s when we’re most insane about our routines or diets, to the point where it starts to take us out of the present moment and disconnect us from the reason we started them in the first place, when we need to back off a bit and reexamine ourselves. Widen our perspectives, shake out our bodies, and notice the subtle movements that start to find their way through the openings.. and wind their way through our being.