I read this website/blog almost everyday called Owning Pink. You can find it under “sites I like” on this blog and I’m sure some of you have clicked on it too. On my second day of tweeting, Lissa Rankin became one of my followers. I’m still not sure how I ended up on her radar, whether it was something that posted on the public feed or it was the meditation twibe I joined, but she was one of the first on my list. I started visiting her site and commenting on her posts and pretty soon I felt a part of the Pink Posse.
Owning Pink is all about empowering, honoring, and inspiring women. In all of her posts, Lissa (and her guest bloggers) find ways to use personal experiences to encourage others to dare to be their authentic selves, to follow their hearts, their passions, and their intuitions to become who they are truly meant to be.
When I sat down at my computer, thinking I might write a new blog post, I stopped in at Owning Pink first. It was there that I read this post by Lissa and got my inspiration for this blog.
I am terrified of heights. I shake and cry when we drive over tall bridges. When I attend sporting events or concerts and have seats in the nose bleed section, I’m on the brink of a breakdown before I make it to my seat. When we were last in Vegas, we paid the $12 to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower in “Paris” and once up there I couldn’t peel myself away from the wall and got back on the elevator as quickly as I could. But with all of this being said and after reading Lissa’s blog, I am going to put hang-gliding on my list of things to do. I don’t want to have such a paralyzing fear in my life and the only way to get rid of it is to face it. So here’s hoping that the opportunity will present itself and I can take the plunge and scratch one more fear off my list.
Oh, sweetie, I’m so glad my hang-gliding experience inspired you to face your fears. My husband Matt is also desperately afraid of heights, so he planned to come to watch me hang-glide, but not to do it. By the time the other five people he came with finished hang-gliding (and couldn’t stop gushing about what a thrilling rush it was), he decided to do it. His thoughts on the experience- “It wasn’t exactly happy-making, but I’m so glad I did it. Makes me realize I can do anything.”
So there you go. You CAN do anything. We are not given obstacles we cannot overcome. You never know. You might hang-glide and find it so freeing that, before you know it, you’re taking elevators to every tall buildings, looking over every steep cliff, and jumping out of airplanes in parachutes! Or maybe not. But you will not have been paralyzed.
How many other fears paralyze us every day? Fear of not being strong enough, of not making enough money, of what people will think? What if we release those too? Imagine how free you might become…..
So happy to have you in the Pink Posse, Leslee. You rock, sister!
I support you in your new intention to hang glide. I have that on my list, too! I am one who has used physical challenges to help me move through fears in all areas of my life . . . I have bungee jumped, crewed on hot air balloons, parasailed, and skydived (tandem). If I can do those things (with a fear of heights), then I can face ANY fears in my life!
You go, girl! : ) Your will be an inspiration to others!