Are You Living Your Best Life?
Are you living your best life? Do you feel like you are, only to feel there is still something missing? I think most of us feel this way at times and most of the time we are looking for that missing piece outside of our own selves. Well, I’m here to tell you, those missing pieces, no matter how many there may be, are all just stored up inside of us waiting to be rediscovered.
There was a pivotal point in my life fourteen years ago in which I found the courage to change my story. I began to rediscover myself and shed the identity the world and others expected of me. I was dealing with more than one of life’s major stressors, to include work issues as well as a completely dysfunctional relationship with my mother. All of this stress caused several debilitating illnesses over the course of about fifteen months. I finally decided enough was enough and consciously chose myself over everything and everyone else.
Sounds selfish?
It isn’t! I have and I will continue to choose myself time and time again with all I have learned from doing so.
I didn’t even realize it at the time, but that very painful, yet simple decision of choosing me changed the trajectory of my life! It was then I started my personal journey of freedom and rediscovering Lorri, enabling me to walk the path I was meant to be on.
A few years ago, I took a beginner series yoga class at the House of AUM in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It was during that time Beth held a workshop at this same location. The synchronicity of taking that beginners class, attending Beth’s workshop, and then a few months later signing up for Yoga Teacher Training led me farther and farther down the path to rediscovering my true authentic self.
As I continued to learn and grow, the more opportunities came my way to put the tools I’d learned to use. Early on, my initial reactions would be my old reactions. But like every habit we have, if we want to change it, it takes practice!
Eventually, my reactions were no reaction at all.
Practicing detachment is powerful stuff, and being able to detach from outcomes of anything is a key to living our best life. The deeper I dug, the more I learned and grew. Doors began to open and suddenly I was achieving lifelong dreams!
Working on myself wasn’t easy and sometimes was downright painful! But had I not done it, I would have stayed stuck where I was, miserable and unhappy. Over the past few years I found my dream home and property, three months after starting my teacher training. I had been searching for it for years in Southern Ohio, and found it literally 15 minutes away from where I had grown up and lived most of my life. My dream of becoming a writer was realized when I was asked to write this column for Held in the Heart, and at the end of December 2019, I chose to retire from my civilian Air Force career of almost 35 years.
But even knowing I was living my best life, there was always this nagging feeling – not just in my mind, but in my soul – that there was something missing. In early March I auditioned for the first time for a play and landed a huge part. Then the pandemic shutdowns began. It was during this time I signed up for Beth’s Express & Emerge Program, since it wouldn’t begin until the play was over. The play wound up being cancelled but the E & E program was not!
Right out of the starting gate in Module One, Question #1, I had a HUGE breakthrough in digging deep into the truth of the connection with my body. Until this program, I had no idea this area was, for me, the missing link holding me back from really living. This program uncovered that area and allowed me to explore the hidden depths so deeply I discovered healing in the process. I feel lighter and have more peace with myself than I have ever known. I am truly living my best life now! Are you?
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