Lessons Learned Through Walking

November is an important and elegant month. The light shifts. The time shifts and it marks for me the month that I started my walking practice. November 3rd to be exact. My dad’s birthday. I always try to take a very special walk on that day and ask my dad for advice. He always shows up. This year it was: Keep walking. Dream bigger. Love all (even the miserable and crotchety). Such solid advice.

I have been fortunate to learn a lot on my walks. I feel as I continue to walk, the more significant the lessons, and that I would only have access to these lessons by walking into them.

A few of the lessons that have arrived during my walks.

1. Spend time by yourself. Enjoy your own company.

2. Change is inevitable. It happens every moment of our lives. The only thing we have control over is how we show up in the face of that change.

3. Surround yourself and hold close the community who love you and cheer you on.

4. We are the natural world. We are not separate from the natural world.

5. Trust that when we walk in the space of the things that light us up the universe will acknowledge and honor that.

6. What is for me isn’t going to miss me.

7. Talk about your dreams in the present tense and it will be so

8. Try something. Fail. Try again. Fail again. Stand up, try again. Fail big. Recognize it may not be meant for me.

9. Eat more soup in November.

10. Note the change of seasons. November can be a time for introspection, active rest and honoring our animal intuition.