I had a really good lesson come forward to me this week. This lesson had actually been shaping up over the past number of weeks. For those of you know my story, you will most likely laugh about my lesson around the dangers inherent in striving for perfectionism. Over the last number of weeks, many of the practitioners at our clinic have been sick and have had to take time off from working to get well. My fellow clinicians take very good care of themselves so I have been somewhat shocked to see that they are getting sick. In the not too distant past, it was me that was taking sick days so the irony was not lost on me…I made a comment to the owner of the clinic two weeks ago saying would you believe that I am the healthiest practitioner of the clinic?! I knew as soon as the words came out of my mouth that I should not have said that…Note to self> Wrong move!
I like to think that the universe saw that my EGO was showing up and after a delightful weekend spent away in Radium hiking and soaking in the hot springs, I woke up Tues am and felt like I had been run over by a truck. I was truly incapacitated…I do my best to optimize my external and internal environment to maximize my health given my situation but lately I was feeling invincible, I admit it! I have never felt so good in terms of my own personal health. I had even been thinking about going back to long distance running (something that I haven’t thought of in years)… so to have this lesson come forward to me was priceless. I am indeed human and so far from perfect that it is laughable. Besides, perfectionism is purely an egotistical space to begin with…this was a fantastic lesson in humility for me and gratitude for seeing the perfection in being so imperfect…it is so much easier to embrace being human… you can relate to others much better from a space of love and humility…