Why I Keep Dancing Even Through Physical Pain
This is the ongoing journal of my personal awakening. Through up to date and un-edited realness, I hope to help you walk through your own awakening with more balance, love and ease.
A home inside my body.
A refuge from my mind.
Quieting the endless loop of worries.
I spin myself up like a top,
thoughts overflowing.
When it all gets too much,
and I’ve almost forgotten myself,
it calls to me —
the space inside
where I go when I dance.
Truth.
Trust.
Safety.
Flow.
I don’t know
where the next moment
will take me
and it’s exciting,
exhilarating.
Even when I’m sad or scared.
Any feeling is allowed.
And in moving through it,
it doesn’t feel as heavy any more.
No longer bogging me down.
The dark blanket of night,
suddenly full of sparking lights.
Guiding my way,
one step merging into the next.
No need to think ahead.
No need to think at all.
Time seems to stop —
hovering above me.
Slow-motion.
Life seems clearer,
the edges coming into focus.
Things that tripped me up
only moments ago
clear from my path.
The bindings at my wrists
and ankles loosen.
Not gone,
but loose enough
for me to slip through.
No longer restraining.
I slip-slide,
wind my way
down the stream
of consciousness,
finding my way back to home
to me.
Always,
back to me.
Julia Coplan, an intuitive artist, uses dance, photography and writing to get unstuck from mental chatter and allow creativity to flow through.
