Life Uninhibited
In the morning when I wake up (perhaps after snoozing my alarm anywhere between one and three times, because, you know, that whole human thing), after several simple sun salutations, before the hustle of walking to work, this is me.
Unfiltered.
Uninhibited.
Unlearning.
I heard a quote by Body-Mind Centering deceloper Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen the other evening and it struck me deeply.
“We don’t need to learn how to speak, we simply need to learn how to uninhibit ourselves from speaking.”
Take another peek at that one. Read it slowly. Let it permeate your current paradigm. How many times a day do we reach for something that we really want, physically or metaphorically, but just before we are about to take sweet, sweet action, a voice comes through (yes, THAT voice), inhibiting us from doing just that.
How many times do we quiet ourselves from speaking our truth, from using our voice? Perhaps for fear that someone may not like what we have to say, or even worse, that our mere decisiveness could offend another human being, who, too, is trying their best to get their needs met?
Can I get a show of hands?
So what does life look like when we live uninhibited? What can we create space for my freeing ourselves from this inhibition? What thoughts, feeing, emotions, patterns, seem to magically dissolve when we decide to intentionally go full on?
Everyone has that moment as a child when mom or dad says “Kids! Go stand over there, let me take your photo!” Only to be met by a resounding harmony of moans and groans from you and your brothers or sisters. Why did we inhibit ourselves in this moment? Was it embarrassment? Was it shame? For what (oh the irony of the excessive photo taking of today’s new age world)! Because we have parents who love us and want to capture a truly beautiful moment as a family. And as kids, we resisted, we inhibited every step of the way. How much more joy would have exuded from the faces of countless children if we had simply appeased our loving parents and given them an uninhibited glimpse into that very moment?
So let me ask you – what happens today when we speak uninhibited? Does it mean that you express how you are feeling to that special someone, without attachment to a response, but simply because you know in your heart that it must be said?
Does it mean that you tell that friend that what they did that one time actually hurt your feelings and it has felt like an incompletion ever since?
Does it mean that you call your mom and tell her how much you love her and how much you appreciate her, even if you didn’t grow up in a family that throws “those word” around freely?
Does it mean that you book a flight to go see a girlfriend who you haven’t seen in a long time simply because she feels like family and would love the support?
For me, today, it could be as simple as posting an uninhibited selfie on social media, because I love the way I FEEL on the inside of that vessel I’m in this time around. Because I know that what I am feeling on the inside is equally as apparent on the outside. And who knows, maybe it could inspire someone else to embrace more of their truth, more of their love for who they are, what they’ve been through, and how far they have come.
Anything could happen we live uninhibited. Truly anything. As my good pal Joe Dispenza says, we live in a quantum universe in which there are unlimited possibilities. We just have to tap into it.
I invite you to live uninhibited, even if only for an hour. Notice how your body responds, how your world responds, what you are able to become free FROM. The heaviness of inhibition does not have to be ours. We do not have to be branded by this thing that nobody ever invited in to begin with.
So make that call, book that trip, visit that place, reach for that job, tell that person how you feel.
Welcome to life uninhibited.
