Who Said You Can't?

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When was the last time you tried something totally new?

I was watching women's hockey in the recent Olympics when I started to cry. I sat with what I was feeling until I knew why. When I was young I was told, "Girls don't play hockey." Yet, here they were: female players, female referees and female commentators. I was overwhelmed with joy and possibility.

I then endeavoured to see if I had missed or misunderstood something along the way. I started by researching the year girls started playing hockey in the Olympics. OMG 1998!! No wonder this feels so big to me! I was a young person then; still figuring out the world and my place in it, but no longer a kid.

I SO wanted to play hockey when I was a kid. When we are young, we are experimenting with Life all over the place. Our creative spirits are thriving. It feels normal to experiment; to fall, get up and try again and again. Gradually though, over time, bit by bit, so slowly that we may barely even notice it, the infinite potential of our worlds can start to shrink through outside conditioning.

"Girls don't play hockey."

I believed that story, while another girl somewhere else didn't. (And then another, and another, and... I am so grateful for all of them!)

There is no limit to the Life that is waiting for us to experience it, but doing so takes determination on our parts. Why not experiment? Fall, get up and experiment all over again! I encourage you to try something new and watch your life expand. Turn away from your limiting conditioning and step into creativity. That is the path to true self-expression.