Starting right where we are

You know that song from the Sound of Music that goes:

Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start?

Sorry (not sorry) if you now have that stuck in your head for the rest of the day.

She has a point, though - the beginning is a very good place to start. Another good place to start (I think maybe the best place to start), is right where you are. When I think that thought, I feel light and hopeful. Beginning right where I am means that I must be in the right spot to begin, and that feels freeing.

It’s also fascinating, if you’re the kind of person who is fascinated by these things, to look more closely at where ‘right where you are’ actually is. To get curious about right here, right now, and see what’s here with you.

You’re here - how are you, as you’re here? How are you in all your facets - mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually. How are all the pieces of you that make up who you are? Your adult self, your inner critic, your inner child (or children). The parts of you who are curious, the parts of you who are afraid, the parts of you who are excited, the parts of you who think they know everything.

What else is here?

The things you carry - your duties and responsibilities, your roles in the world. Friend, lover, parent, child, sibling, the good listener, the practical one, the person who always finds the bright side, the jobs you do, both professionally and personally. Your sense of humour, the things you’re interested in.

What else is here?

All the things you carry with you are here. The things you bring from the past - hurts and trauma and conditioning, but also your gifts and strengths and resources. Your memories from the past, your hopes and dreams for the future.

All these things and more are with us when we start right where we are, so we’re never really starting from nothing.

Where are we going, starting from right where we are?

We could go anywhere.

Anywhere at all.

Where will it be for you?