Weight Weight Just Love Me – Upper Limit – Day 15
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT
To push past an upper limit I was experiencing with loving myself, I went on an adventure I've been wanting to do for a while. I road my bike across this new bridge to this indoor pool I swim at. I hit a new high with loving myself when I got out of the pool - I experienced a genuine sense of feeling really gorgeous exactly as I am.
In Gay Hendrick’s book – “The Big Leap” he talks about a concept he calls the “upper limit.” He explains people tend to have a natural upper limit for happiness and success. This is they only allow themselves to be just so happy or just so successful, then will create something in their life so they do not exceed their upper limit for either of these areas. This creation can be a fight with a partner or colleague, some illness, or some other life event that derails their mojo.
I’m wondering where my upper limit is for loving myself more? I’m paying attention when something happens that takes me down a couple notches from how loving I’m being towards myself. For example, several days ago, I got up early and got started on making a loaf of sour dough sprouted rye grain bread for my sweetheart who is coming home after being gone on a business trip for several weeks. Then I was hit with this wave of extreme fatigue. I’ve been so looking forward to this reunion and then it was like WHAMO – I just needed to go back to bed. When I woke up the second time around 10 AM, I remembered what I had read in Gay’s book about the upper limits. So I committed to pushing past this fatigue. Got on my favorite yoga outfit and road my bike to the pool. That did the trick, when I got out of the pool reenergized and ready to go, my first thought was – geez my muscular, round body is so smoking hot today – I feel GREAT. YES, I have reached a new level in my pursuit of loving myself more!!!!!
Kate’s comment: Some people have this same concept, but in regards to “things were just going too good for me!”, thinking the universe allows a finite amount of happiness before it decides you’re due for some negative karma. This thinking goes a long ways in excusing upsetting situations, but it does little to address the root cause of the upsetting situation. It sounds like you were fed up with feeling like you’d reached an upper limit, and you raised it. You raised the universe’s quota for your energy and happiness! Keep that level going with what you know works for you.
