Moving Waters
The dignity of being unfinished
Where are you tyrannising yourself by trying to be perfect?
You so clearly care deeply about doing things well. You have high standards, notice the details, and can imagine possibilities beyond what you have already created. You are willing to keep learning, refining and growing.
The Energy
You don't have to BE everything perfectly, all at once. Life is a process of becoming.
Moving Waters asks us to claim the right and dignity of being unfinished. We need room to experiment, discover, refine, change our minds, feel contradictory things and allow different parts of ourselves to emerge at different speeds.
Nor do we become in isolation. What we encounter changes how we see, and sometimes invites us to see again. The living self deserves room to become something the ideal could not have predicted.
The Invitation
The ideal offers us an image of how we think we should already be. Anything unfinished, contradictory or still emerging can then feel like evidence that we are failing to live up to what we believe we should be.
But becoming needs movement. We do not have to be complete before we are allowed to participate. We can offer what is true now, learn from what happens when it meets the world, and allow that encounter to become part of what we create next.
Nothing we move through has to be wasted. What we learn, feel, attempt, create and discover can gather into a living reservoir, becoming part of what resources our next expression.
A Way Through
Notice where you are suppressing the expression of your life-force in your attempt to be perfect.
What if who you are now is not an imperfect version of who you should be, but a living self in the process of becoming what you value?