Where is your fuel?

Hi there.

Before you read on, take a moment to consider the last 10 minutes of a yoga practice, a

workout, a run, a work week that you recently experienced.

Close your eyes and think back.

I love reminding people in the final minutes of a yoga practice or workout that they are

not automobiles...your body doesn't start at the beginning of the hour with a full tank and

end up with the gas light on, sucking fumes as the final moments wane. Rather, we tap

into our intention, we become inspired, we find the zone…the body lights up, warms up,

taps in, digs deep...it keeps going. Even from a physiological perspective, our slow

twitch, marathon style muscle fibers come to life to endure the work at hand…they do

what they are designed to do.

In short, our relationship with fuel is not compatible with an automobile analogy.

And so, where is your fuel? Or perhaps, the pre-cursor question just may be:

What fuels you? Actually, to be more precise…

What will fuel you right now?

The human experience is fueled by lots of stuff...calories, sunlight, love, music, sleep,

critical thinking, inspirational magic, tasty nomz, deep breaths, indulgence and one-size-

does-not-fit-all moments of self-care...

Are you running on empty? If so, make sure you ask yourself which of your tanks is

tapped.

If your brain is hungry for knowledge, sleep won't fill you up.

If you are physically exhausted, rolling out your mat and perfecting someone else’s

fullest expression of asana isn’t going provide tomorrow with a refreshed and rested

version of you.

If you are needing sunlight and fresh air, pounding Mountain Dew & those white and

pink frosted animal crackers on the couch in the basement watching season 6 of Grey’s

Anatomy will not quench your thirst.

Conversely, if you are craving Mountain Dew & those white and pink frosted animal

crackers...kale and burpees ain't going to stop the grumbling.

Consider where you are empty before you start filling up.

You may say, “I am empty. But I don’t know where I am empty.”

We exist in the current of a culture that often encourages solely listening to the expert,

the influencer or mimicking the actions of the person leading the yoga practice rather

than that powerful and persistent voice inside of you. Listen to it right now. What is it

saying?

Your intuition may not have a large following on Instagram but it has a huge interest in

your well-being. I always like to define intuition as that voice that says, “Hey! Do that.

That will feel good. That is what we need.” Where this voice will often say things that

contradict the cultural current, it is easy to write it off as an unreliable, uneducated,

inconsistent guide to lead our path. But ask yourself, how often have you ever found

success walking a pathway that didn’t feel right, that was contrary to what you gut was

telling you?

What if you listened to that voice?

What if you are so incredibly, uniquely designed that the pathway to your magic wasn’t

found within someone else’s journey or experience but stored safely within the

messages from your intuition right into your body, mind and soul?

Consider this moment. Where are you running low? What will fill you up? Where can

you access that fuel?

One last thought about your intuition. It innately knows what you need because its

genesis lies without your mission, purpose, vision and vocation. That is to say, your

truest fulfillment is found within providing yourself the fuel you need in order to

accomplish the things you feel called to do and be in this world. Do the things that fuel

the incredibly, unique designed you.