One of the most beautiful things I learned through dance is how to create an end goal or a feeling while I work on the details on how to get there step by step with intentional purposeful movement.
Let me explain so you can be clear on what I mean by that.
Whether I am choreographing, teaching, or taking a dance class my mind and emotions are always visualizing the movie and how it makes me feel in the end. However, being present in where I am in the process allows me to falling in love with every detail of each scene knowing the joy of box office debut.
I have probably shared something familiar in past blogs but I believe it is even more relevant now to share again as I witness students in our classes sometimes get caught up in the specifics of learning something new and get discouraged by making mistakes rather than embracing the process of learning. With that comes making those beautiful mistakes.
For me, there are so many new things in my life now that I knew nothing about that forces me to give myself grace and focus exclusively on each new lesson knowing the joy that comes with gaining a new skill I alway wanted to learn.
Life is about experiments. If we visualize something that we want and if that is something we have never done before, then achieving that thing will come with an unquantifiable amount of mistakes before there is alignment with that goal.
It’s inevitable, especially if it is skill based. Your body has to be trained to create what you see in your mind and your spirit has to align with those parts of yourself to bring a level of expression that makes it a reflection of how unique you are as a person.
A trip to early days of dreaming….
I remember when I was 6 years old laying on my grandmother’s roof shirtless in the middle of a Saturday Night in Barrett Town Jamaica watching the well-lit, larger than life cruise ships pass by thinking about where I am right now. I had no idea what my journey was going to be but I knew how I would feel when I achieved it. And I knew a big part of that was coming to the United States.
The tools You need to fall in love with the Process.
Fast forward to the present. I am now 43 and my journey has been such a beautiful one. In the process of getting to my goals I have learned to stay the course no matter how long it takes, keep an open mind in the process, be emotionally invested but not enough where expectations get the best of me, learn how to plan ahead, trust my intuition, evaluate my performance, analyze my strength as well as my weaknesses, practice till I cant get it wrong, trust the process, remember the reason why I’m doing it, find people that are serious about working on similar goals, show up refreshed with a genuine, authentic joy for opportunity to learn, and live the experience in full. These are the tools of how I fall in love with the journey.
If you use these tools you will experience results along the way that wasn’t even apart of the end goal. That is what makes the end goal even more beautiful.
