Intention: To further explore the energy discovered yesterday
Result: A rebith of including the spirit in mind-body workouts
This challenge, surprisingly, has reignited my interest in things that are more ethereal. In 2009, I took Anatomy in 3D through Balanced Body and was so inspired by that path that I took it upon myself to become an instructor for the program. The result was that I becames obsessed with the enginering behind movement and opened up a whole mental pathway that was scientific thinking, and I started leading with a different hemisphere of my brain. In spite of the fact that I have always tested well in math and science, I have rebelled against that side of my brain for the majority of my life. Choosing to lead with my emotions, rather than my intellect, I spent most of my adolescent and adult life as a passionate, somewhat serious, creative type.
Discovering the Anatomy in 3D as a vehicle to strengthen my intellectual muscles, I started taking more action in my life based on things like facts and reality, rather than making decision after decision based on emotion. Over the past three years, I've evolved from a hard working but always broke instructor who bounced back and forth between happiness and depression and who didn't feel like an adult into a grown woman who runs a department of 20 with car payments that she can make comfortably, enough time on her hands to explore and learn more, and the ability to spend time developing her self-awareness.
Interestingly, this 90 day challenge has lead me in directions that I never expected. I set out thinking of vanity, assuming that if I forced myself to move for 90 days, my body would look better. I never thought I would find myself going back to the frontier of life force and chakras, but here I am again, finding comfort in energy work, something that is considered less "scientific" in most circles. There is always something that feels kind of magical about energy work (and by energy work I refer to lots of things: Reiki, the GYROTONIC® method, yoga, T'ai Chi.), and yet I'm convinced that there will one day be a solid scientific explanation as to why these things are so beneficial to our health.
All in all, this just reinforces what I have always thought about health, everything has to be in balance. Balance is health. Balance between intellect, emotion, physical strength and flexibility, and spiritual health.
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