OH my Pepper is 5! If you have met Pepper đśď¸, you know she is spicey and sweet, she is loud and neat. Her strong polar personality supports everyone she meets. The beautiful thing about Pepper (and most children her age) is that she is discovering her voice, her power, her identity. She has not been programmed (at least long enough) to be/act a certain way! Pepper does her thing, unashamed and listens to her inner voice and honors what she is feeling and does her best to make herself be heard!
Its something that is so special and so sacred. As her mom I try to honor her voice as I encourage her to learn and embrace sustainable routines and respect certain boundaries that honors the âwhole.â
Itâs a delicate balance.
Itâs the same in our Pilates practice and daily activities, its important to honor our unique body as we move and strengthen in our preferred method (pilates or whatever else you do).
As adults we are more programmed than Pepper! WE have been taught and told to do certain things a particular way. Sometimes these things that we are taught serve us, but sometimes they donât but we are programmed to do it anyway. Our programming sometimes pulls us away from what is true for us.
Overtime these things we do over and over again become mindless. We do it on repeat and go through our days moving but not feeling and reconnecting to what it right for us. I have been there! I call them mindless motions.
These mindless motions can turn to âaddictions.â These addictions are powerful, and can show up in many different ways because we can do them without thinking about it. If you are a âmover,â like me, it very likely that movement could be one of your addictions too, if you are not paying attention:).
Mindless motions/addictions give us something to do, but that doesnât mean we should do it! These addictions take us away from ourselves and our need to keep honoring and connecting to who we are and what we need in that particular moment. Our bodies/our lives are constantly changing and in motion, so it is necessary to be present and adapt our habits and our actions moment to moment, day to day, year to year and so onâŚ
My wish for myself and anyone who reads this is to âhit the pause buttonâ time to time.
Question what you do. How does it serve you to live/feel better?
Does what you do help you find more connection and stability or do you feel pulled and torn from it?
I think of Pepper an how she honors herself and her needs, how she is constantly exploring her body and her habits. I try to do the same.
LOVE,
Brooke
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