Fill in the blank: “Perfection is the enemy of _________.”. Progress? Creativity? Success? Getting the job done?
Years ago, I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a short book about a seagull who is outcast from the flock because he does not wish to stay stuck in daily survival mode. He wishes to learn to soar with perfection. Reading this as a young adult, I found a strange sense of relief from my religious upbringing that taught perfection (aka obedience) as the only avenue to heaven and even worse, you only get one shot. By eight years old I had determined I would need a Plan B for a reasonable eternity. The concept of reincarnation and the idea that it takes many attempts to learn a lesson brought a tremendous sense of possibility and hope. Many years later, I learned how to access past lives and bring forth those lessons to help speed along my progress and, as a side benefit, prove we get way more than one shot at something.
We learn a lesson intellectually before it takes root as a way of seeing the world much less inform our next step. I can memorize a math equation, but its value doesn’t sink in until I learn how to apply it. And once I apply it and see results, the chances that that information will inform future behaviors can happen. Life takes practice. Lessons are more than an intellectual exercise. The real relief comes when we allow ourselves to be in practice and not demand perfection. Practice takes time. Lifetimes. What lessons have you been working on? Hypnotherapy and past life regressions can help. Click here to schedule a free 30 minute discovery call to see if this might work for you.
