Wednesday Wishcasting: And It Is....

For the first time in what feels like forever, Jamie poses a Wednesday Wishcasting question which has, for me, an "easy" answer.

She asks, "Wishcasting Wednesday: What do you wish to shed?"

I've been working on this, slowly and intentionally, since Summer. It is like I had to ease into it, at first.

I wish to shed excess "me" - I wish to be in better shape. I wish to have knees that don't hurt. I wish to move more easily.

Since I started doing yoga and zumba and now, hooping, this is happening.

I have found that dietary changes are happening because my body feels better and happier and we have a more cohesive, stand together relationship than in the past. My body (and the excess it carries) was sort of floating around - or not floating around - separate from my spirit and intellect. While there were certain activities where we were deep kindreds and very satisfied there were others where we dissected from one another.

Now we are bringing that together, my body and I, and I am honoring my body by eating better and enjoying her in many ways, not just the physical activity of satisfying my love and I.

Lately I have been preparing for a musical I am in so every night I am doing choreographed dancing. I am not the worlds best dancer though once I get my moves down, people will never know the not-so-graceful means to get there. Somehow I feel like this wish is imbued in that show. I wished to be in a musical for so long and had just about given up when I was "begged" to take the fabulous role of the "lead villain" in a local musical that is going to be performed on a larger stage than I have ever performed upon... in fact, which is a several year old wish I never knew "how" I would achieve.

My body and I haven't shed the excess yet, but the process is moving forward. I am grateful, happy and I am moving consistently for the first time in years. Since college, actually.

And I did something else that feels wildly courageous. I have an appointment with a trainer at the gym on Saturday. This is a first. I haven't ever had the guts to go through the whole body fat measurement thing because, quite frankly, I didn't want to know. Now I know it is just a mark of the beginning of finally leaving what I don't want behind and stepping fully into my grandest wishes.

I wish for this to continue and increase. And it is...