Starting out Slow

Dear Friends,

The daffodils are out with a vengeance right now, with whole hillsides covered with these happy yellow flowers, it’s pretty magical.

I was walking past a patch of daffodils the other day, thinking about how they reproduce…thinking about how they both reproduce with seed, and also with dividing their bulbs and cloning themselves over the years.

You can do absolutely nothing with that daffodil bulb, and year after year, not only will that flower come back, but it will make more of itself.

I was thinking of that, and thinking about our movement practices.  I don’t know about you, but I think many of us struggle with starting too fast, with putting too much on ourselves when it comes to our movement practices, and then burning out and giving up when we inevitably can’t fulfill our goals.

I was wondering how it might feel if, just like the daffodils, we started out with small, manageable and achievable goals…and then built from there.  Maybe we started with the goal of moving our bodies 10 minutes a couple of days a week, and then when we established that, maybe we gave ourselves a bigger goal to reach.  I wonder how it might feel if, as the daffodils, we gave ourselves permission to build our movement practice over time instead of all at once.  

My dear friends, I hope this week you can give yourself permission to start out with small and achievable goals, knowing that, with that, you can build something over time.

Have an amazing week, my friends.

Love
Krista