Hello and welcome to this gentle reminder where we connect as humans living under this blue sky and walking on the sacred earth.
As I share this reminder,
I ask you to connect with your breath.
Notice the air coming in and out of your nose.
And notice how your body and your mind feel in this moment.
There is no need to change or correct anything.
Just become aware and stay with this open awareness as you listen to the rest of the audio.
Today's reminder is on perfection.
Because we all have heard the saying,
Practice makes perfect.
If you want to be good at something,
Practice.
Repeat it.
Sit down and do the thing.
But what if perfect is not a goal that I want?
What if I rather be curious when sitting down to practice?
Because,
Yes,
Like any relationship,
Any interest or skill needs presence.
It needs patience,
Attention,
And you or me showing up to do the thing.
But having perfection as the goal seems to suck the life right out of that interest or hobby.
Let's say,
For example,
I want to be a perfect guitar player,
Or the perfect ballerina,
Or the perfect mother,
Teacher,
The perfect anything.
Yes,
That will require to show up and practice,
To play my guitar and show up for my role.
But perfection is like chasing a mental construct that needs the outcome to look a specific way to be valid.
It's very constricting.
Perfection and curiosity require the same amount of practice and dedication.
But when you or me are chasing a perfect result,
We are not allowing the role,
The skill or the practice to transform us.
To move us in ways we could have not imagined before the role or the skill reveals itself.
And this applies to any role,
To all of our roles and ideas of what we should be like.
For example,
Oh,
I'm 36 years old and I should be having all of these things that I don't.
So that must mean I am a failure and I should mentally hurt myself for it.
But what if life is just trying to expand us in creative ways we cannot even imagine,
But we keep resisting?
Because we need to feed into a mold of perfection.
So,
My invitation today is to bring this creative curiosity into any role you are playing or into any hobby.
And observe how does the energy of the role or the practice wants to move through you without trying to constrict it into any specific outcome.
Thank you for joining this gentle reminder on perfection and giving blessings to your playful dance with curiosity.
