what is there left to know?

I feel like I have been alive long enough and done enough stuff that I would know by now.

Know to double check I grabbed my keys before closing the door behind me.

Know that guessing shortcuts usually takes longer because I get lost.

Know that there is a chair next to the kitchen counter to avoid knocking my shin into.

Know that things aren't as scary in real life as they are in my head.

What is there left to learn and know?

It turns out a whole lot. And not only about the world and how I engage with it, but also about me.

In this body I have lived in my entire life, it forever surprises and shocks me that each and every day, I learn or uncover something new about myself. While some of those things were dormant and waiting for a time or a place to reveal themselves, many of these new discoveries are exactly that- new.

I interact with the world, and the world interacts with me, and suddenly something new is bundled up in what I thought was an unchanging, stable way of being.

We talk about beginner's mindset in yoga, meditation and even Pilates. Often, we are talking about how to approach poses, exercises or our experience of the environment. Though we rarely talk about approaching ourselves with a beginner's mindset.

If this were your first day on this earth, living your life, what leniencies would you offer yourself?

Understand that keys are small and easy to forget when you have so many things on your mind already?

Tell yourself that the shortcut may have taken longer, but you had a mini adventure on the way?

Put some ice on the bruise on your shin from that chair, and say that frustration and tears are a very acceptable response to pain?

Gently remind yourself that it is ok to feel anxious about the unknown?

Every day we wake up, we are ever so slightly different from the person who went to sleep.

Today, just begin again. Give yourself the gift of being a beginner in this thing called life- it is your first time living as you, after all.

- Karen Gruber

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