This morning, I realized during a lecture from my school that this school isn't just teaching me about secondary foods, ( foods we eat) but primary foods ( our relationships, our career, our physical exercise and our spiritualism) YES, I am learning a lot about nutrition and health but the lecture this morning was so empowering, I feel I need to share it with everyone.
I really needed to hear what he said, this time, I am going through a difficult time in my life and I feel stuck, I am scared and confused. This lecture along with a friend who told me, "Happiness is an inside job."Got me crying. CRYING you say? why would someone cry from a nutrition lecture... well this discussion wasn't exactly about food, but it could be to some people, it was about fear of being STUCK. Fear of being in a transition phase. IT's being unsure.
I had to leave a career that I loved once and I lost a close friend and I had to take the risk, I am now being faced with this same feeling... the in between feeling... Some of it has to do with a relationship some of it has to do with worry that I won't make enough money to support myself. I am afraid of growing moments, but I do realize that after I take a risk, I do find out I learned something. This is a poem was read by Joshua Rosenthal, the founder and director of my school~ The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. ( I graduate this May)
The flying Trapeze
And so transformation of fear may have nothing to do with making fear go away, but rather with giving ourselves permission to “hang out” in the transition zone — between the trapeze bars — allowing ourselves to dwell in the only place where change really happens.”
Sometimes, I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I'm either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or
for a few moments, I am hurdling across space between the trapeze bars.
Mostly, I spend my time hanging on for dear life to the trapeze bar of the "moment".
It carries me along a certain steady rate of swing and I have the feeling that I am in control.
I know most of the right answers, and even some of the wrong answers. But once in a while, as I am merrily, or not so merrily, swinging along, I look ahead of me Into the distance, and what do I see?
I see another trapeze bar looking at me. It's empty.
And I know, in that place in me that knows, that this new bar
has MY NAME on it. It is my next step, my growth, my aliveness coming to get me. In my heart of hearts I know that for me to grow, I must release my grip on the present well-known bar to move to the new one.
Each time it happens, I hope - NO i pray- that I wont' have to grab the new one. But in my knowing place I know that I must totally release my grasp on the old bar, and for some moments in time I must hurtle across space before I can grab a new bar. Each time I do this I am filled with TERROR. It doesn't matter that in all my previous hurtles I have always made it.
Each time I am afraid I will miss, that I will be crushed on unseen rocks in the bottomless basin between the bars. But I do it anyway. I must.
Perhaps this is the essence of what the mystics call FAITH. No guarantees, no net, no insurance, but we do it anyway because hanging on to that old bar is no longer an option. And so, for what seems to be an eternity but actually lasts a microsecond. I soar across the dark void called "the past is over" , the future is not yet here." It's called a transition. I have come to believe that it is the only place that real change occurs.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the transition zone is the only real thing, and the bars are the illusion we dream up to not notice the void. Yes, with all the fear that can accompany transitions, they are still the most vibrant, growth-filled , passionate moments in our lives.
*And so transformation of fear may have nothing to do with making fear go away, but rather with giving ourselves permission to "hang-out" in the transition zone, between the trapeze bars- allowing ourselves to dwell in the place where change really happens. It can be terrifying. It can be enlightening. Hurdling through the void. we just may learn to fly.
I hope this lecture helps you in a struggle you are having or a fear you have. I am still hanging out on that one bar....but I hope I will be able to get off...soon.
I do have faith...
but I also have fear....I know F.E.A.R. is false evidence appearing real.....
So make that leap...today...
I was a women who emotionally ate through most of my 20's all of my 30's and am now learning how to NOT emotionally eat. I help other women do the same, and in the process we feel connected, needed and happy.
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