If You Felt Completely Free
What would you give humanity?
If you felt completely free, what would you give humanity? Would you host dance parties in your front yard every Wednesday morning? Put on your favorite dress and go read books to elderly hospice patients in their final hours? Start a movement for incarcerated people to create sculptures that revive the artist within them, that we’ve locked up and shamed?
Yesterday during Pilates class, those words came through.
If you felt completely free, what would you give humanity?
It happens during rigorous exercise. I hear words that seem to come from a much bigger mind than my own.
Near the end of a split lunge posture, I felt proud of myself and thought, I never knew I could feel this good at almost-50. In that moment of now, my entire focus was needed to stay in the posture — so I didn't have thoughts streaming in to tell me I should be really nervous about the one-woman-show I'm performing on my 50th birthday, just one month from now.
When we release the busyness of thinking, choosing instead to fully be in our bodies, we can be channels for deeply inspired ideas to move through. Ideas.
Thoughts that come from somewhere so much bigger than our little mind.
Up through the metal springs of the Reformer machine, thoughts arose. What if, tomorrow, every human gave something to humanity from a place of feeling totally free?
I couldn't imagine what that might look like, but my body could feel what it would feel like.
And it felt really good. So today, I’m asking you.
Do something that gets you out of your head, tapping instead into the most intelligent "thinker” you've got — your body, your temple, an ancient genius masterpiece. What is the most free version of you, dreaming to bring to life?
Last night my friend Amanda captured a moment of me reveling at the Life on Art celebration of Unbound. High five to feeling free! ★