Welcome to our second newsletter.

You might have noticed that inspiration, clairty, courage is my tag. This newsletter has some muses on courage and finds a little inspiration

musings on courage

Learning to love the boundary of your comfort zone.

Recently I have learnt with my body and my heart and my spirit, not just with my mind, that no one ever achieved anything by staying in their comfort zone.

If you are up against the boundaries of your comfort zone then you are just about to make a breakthrough into a new way of being.

I have learnt to love the feeling of being at my limit. It has become like an old friend as I experience the joy of first one breakthrough and then another. I have learnt that old fears and patterns will try to hold me back.

In my life I have broken through comfort zone after comfort zone – an undergraduate degree, an honours degree, a PhD, a baby, learning to snowboard, writing a book, and then another, starting a business, building a website … and I have learnt to recognise the feeling of breaking through my comfort zone into a new space. At first I thought I’d break through and never need to stretch my boundaries again, but now I known there is always another boundary and it feels nearly as scary every time and every time I rely on the memory of previous experiences to give me courage.

Nowadays, I often remember sitting in the snow in quiet tears of pure frustration and despondency, aching all over after falling over and falling over again and again … and getting up again because I figure I have three choices: walk back up the mountain and ask for ride down on the chair lift; take off the snowboard and walk down the mountain, or, get up again and try, again, to slide down the mountain. I am dressed like a yeti – so I could do any of these things anonymously - but - each time I say, I have come this far, there is no sense in turning back. And do you know what? I still can’t snowboard, but I love it that I try, because I love knowing that I have the courage to push myself out of my comfort zone again and again. I am learning to love the journey itself, the triumph over my self imposed limits and boundaries as much as the outcome.

I am thinking you've learnt that too - or, like me, are learning it!

some inspiration

"I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any ideas I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well."

Rob Brezsny: Pronoia:the antidote for paranoia: How the universe is conspirinbg to shohwer you with blessings, p 3

http://www.freewillastrology.com/

news

The Modern Spirited Woman

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