What motivates you?
Another loaded question perhaps, as the question can be answered with many other questions:
to do what?
for what?
when?
why?
Maybe a better question would start with “what motivates YOUR…?”
You fill in the blank. What jumps into your mind immediately? It can be a very interesting experiment of free association.
Let’s look at this action:
“To Sing” is a big and vast overview. Often, even the idea of singing can be overwhelming, especially right now. There is a similar overwhelm to singing as there is to getting to the gym - wherever or however you workout right now.
What if you broke it down? Smaller, more isolated and less daunting possibilities?
What motivates you?
What motivates your voice?
Where does it even begin!?!?
If it all feels too much, stop. If it’s been too long since, slow down. If you are saying “why am I feeling overwhelmed,” what if you just start small?
Your body is your instrument. How is it aligning these days? Motivate that alignment. NO singing. JUST alignment. Spend your focus on observing and adjusting without value judgement to explore how the physical feels; how it aligns. You can do it just sitting here reading!
As you are taking yourself through those points of alignment, did you hold your breath?
How is the alignment affecting your breath? Motivate that breath AS you align!
As you gently give permission to discover, re-discover, isolate to integrate, THAT can be the motivation!
Motivation doesn’t have to be a deadline, a finish line, a large project, or a project at all! It doesn’t have to always have a place to “become”. Motivation can be one gentle action at a time. Motivation can be aligning and breathing while listening to music that energizes, inspires, awakens you.
Motivation can become awareness. Awareness can motivate.
The body, the breath, the vibration. Motivate the activation. Then observe how the activation motivates you to take it further.
You then CHOOSE how you answer that question; and all the sub-questions at your leisure and in your time.
Possibility, Practice, Purpose.
All are within your grasp. Act on it gently, with awareness and watch what happens!
with fondness & fierceness,
Susan
