Leah Lewis Instagram – What is your “Why?” when it comes to movement? I want open up the doors for people to question that for themselves, as I have had a question that many times in my life. Our relationship with our bodies and how they work is something that sometimes we don’t think about much, while so much work can go in.
In the last decade of being in physical spaces, I have had to ask my self and my ego many times, “What is it all for?” It changes like the wind. The human body is so capable and a curiosity for possibility burns in me, but it isn’t always 100 %. I’m also not physically or mentally going to be that 100 % every day.
Although, it is our WHY that fuels us to do what we do. In my last years, it has oscillated between fascination with anatomy, longevity, mental health necessities, cravings for aliveness, pure fun, strength building, and last but not least, the hardest one of all to grapple with – Feelings of inadequacy or feeling like you have to because you have something to prove (💔)
I have noticed that if I’m not moving from the healthiest place mentally, theres a huge imbalance with not being able to feel the progress or the journey. Even with goals, there’s a level of rigidity AND tenderness. If not, it leaves room for shame, ego and guilt enter the picture. It is so easy to enter that feeling when we’re dealing with something this personal, but there is a mental connection that is so more important in sustaining the days when your body is at 30 percent or when you’re blind to your own progress. Things like “just getting it done” or the anxiety of “If I don’t, I’ll—-“ in the past have led me to anxiety, poor form, short cuts, shame ruts, and missing some of the fruits of actually feeling really proud of all this work put in. For some, that mindset IS fine and healthy. Whatever moves your groove. But for me, guiding my “why’s” to move from the strongest or even gentlest of places have helped me create a really beautiful relationship with this body I’m in for like, ya know, forever. We’re here, we’re committed. I want that love to last as long as I can and not burn out because of limiting mindsets. | Posted on 27/Feb/2025 02:17:39
