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This brief dance

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There is always a little something we hold back from the world. Why? Fear.

Sometimes, for many, there is more than a little, there is nearly all of our true essence that we fear to reveal. The suffering comes from the holding back, from the waiting, from the ‘shall I?’…’no better not’.

Revealing our true self means going deep into the wild, to be on the edge, to risk it all…what are we all waiting for?

This brief dance on the stage is all we have, it’s very brief, and we fear the audience. A blink and it’s gone.

Leap, dance, sing, jump…go crazy, do whatever that beautiful amazing inner essence and soul wants to experience. Don’t wait the clock is ticking. No one cares and if they do, it doesn’t matter. Do and don’t think.

Inktober

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Above is this year’s #inktober so far up to ‘day 17’.

This is my third year of doing the #inktober challenge and I absolutely love it. It’s simple, each day there is a prompt for you to create an ink drawing, although you do not have to follow the prompt, and then post your ink drawing to Instagram using the #inktober.

Art is one of my favourite things to do, and in recent months I have fallen away a little from my habit of doing a piece of art each day, even if it is just a quick pencil sketch. When I am doing my art I’m in the moment, focused and free from the mind and its distractions.

So I’m glad to be back in the grove and doing it each day. Like all things, small easy steps build a habit and when we are focused on the small daily routine, then the mind is silent as there is little risk. If we focus on big giant leaps, then alarms ring and the mind sabotages as its poor little ego is at risk.

Step by step keeps us focused now in the joy of doing not thinking about the ‘big’ outcome.