— HeyMonicaB

Hey there speedy, what’s the rush? I ask myself this question all the time. And it doesn’t always slow me down, but sometimes it does. I went to a very cool yoga workshop today, taught by Kimberly Wilson (she’s one of my hero-ladies) about finding your creativity and how creativity goes hand in hand with yoga. During a discussion, I talked about how I am in what I call, “gray” space. A cool gal in the class said, “Gray seems a little sad…I like to call that ‘rainbow’ because you have all these possibilities.”

OMG really!? I can be in RAINBOW if I want?! I LOVED that and it made me feel so alive! I thanked her and said I’d take it, so I grabbed it out of the air and put it in my pocket.

I think often we can get caught in black and white. At least for me, I am usually starting something or ending it. Start. End. Start. End. It’s very predictable yet super exciting (and annoying) because things are always happening. Now I find myself in an amazing relationship (it started and it’s not ending…) and a bit in flux career-wise. Er, where, what, when, why, how fast…all these questions constantly buzzing at me.

My mom wrote me an email that said (this is still about gray before I knew about rainbow), “Enjoy the gray…it can be unsettling until you are used to it. I might like it better than black and white. It gives you freedom, freedom to think imagine and become different as a result.” Whoa. Smart woman. I’ll take that too…yep, in the pocket.

So, I felt like I was in gray…but now I see it’s a RAINBOW thanks to kindred spirits out there. There is no rush. Life is long, enjoy it and see all the colors…and you don’t even have to pick one, you can enjoy them all. I always wanted to leap immediately out of the gray, but I don’t want to leave rainbow any time soon. Love it. Thanks cool gal in my yoga class. Namaste.