March 9, 2023 • 19 mins
Flowing with your time, energy and focus even when unexpected things come up, doesn't just mean floating through life and letting life happen to you. On the contrary, it means intentionally becoming aware of those places that make you slightly uncomfortable then learning to adapt to them without going too far. Also known as finding your edge.
In this episode, I take you through a visualization to help you figure out how to identify your edge. I also talk about what it means to find your edge and how to know when you've gone beyond your edge.
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(00:00):
Flowing with your time, energyand focus, even when unexpected
(00:03):
things come up, it doesn't justmean floating through life and
letting things happen to you.
On the contrary, it meansintentionally becoming aware of
those places that make youslightly uncomfortable then
learning to adapt to themwithout going too far.
(01:19):
Hey friends.
Welcome to episode 70 of thepodcast.
Today, we are talking all aboutfinding your edge.
And this is something that Ihave talked about for years in
yoga and with teaching my yogastudents.
And I think that there'sdifferent ways to look at it as
well.
And so I want to bring it to youtoday in this episode, and
(01:39):
we'll, we'll talk about it, butin order to know where your edge
is, what your edge is, whichyou'll know after today's
episode, you first have to knowwhere you are right now.
And in order to do that, In mymind, the best way to do so is
to use the daily rhythmstracker.
This is a, I could say it's ahabit tracker of sorts, but it's
(02:02):
a tracker that helps you uncoverand discover where your rhythms
are.
Whether that is with the lunarcycle or your menstrual cycle or
your sleep rhythms, even, it'sjust helping you uncover all
those areas of your body andbring them to light so that, you
know, Maybe where you want toplace intention around
transforming your life orchanging some element of your
(02:25):
life.
So this episode is brought toyou by the daily rhythms
tracker.
And I will drop a link in theshow notes for you to download
your copy of that.
It's a great tool and resourcetoo.
Be able to begin.
Inviting more intentionalityinto your life.
And as I said, To begin to knowwhere you are right now, so that
(02:47):
you can find an edge that helpsyou transform.
Helps you get better in whateverarea you want to get better in.
Now we're going to talk aboutthat a little bit more later on
in the show, because.
When I say.
Oh, it helps you get better.
Like I'm, don't, I'm not meaningthat you always need to be
(03:08):
feeling like you need to bedoing better and that you are
not enough.
There's a balance there.
There's a, there's a harmonythere that is important to
consider.
And we're going to talk aboutthat later in the show for now,
though know that the dailyrhythms tracker is available to
you, and it's a great tool tohelp you find.
Where you are right now in life,help you uncover where you are
(03:28):
right now in life, so that youcan find an edge in life and,
and always be feeling your bestso that you can flow with your
time, energy and focus, nomatter where you are.
So as we begin today, I'm goingto begin with bringing you
through a little bit of a guidedmeditation again, or a guided
visualization.
Once again.
(03:49):
And in order to do that, find acomfortable place.
Or even, you know, if you'relistening to this while you're
driving, you can totally dothis, this thought work while
you're driving as well.
But if you really want to get intouch with your inner guidance
and, and just take a moment topause now would be the time to
do so.
So if you're doing somethinglike cleaning or, um, doing
(04:10):
something around the house thatyou can actually take a little
break from, just take a little,few minute break while I guide
you through this.
Okay, so deep breath in throughyour nose.
Exhale out, soften yourshoulders.
Take one more deep breath inthrough your nose.
Exhale out and soften.
(04:30):
And as you do bring to mind atime in your life.
When you have injured yourself.
Now.
You could easily do this withany momentous event in your life
that you wish perhaps would havegone differently.
But today, I'm just going to usethe example of.
(04:51):
An injury.
So recall the instant youinjured yourself.
This could be a big injury, orthis could be as simple as like
stubbing your toe or stepping ina hole and rolling your ankle
or.
Just stepping wrong off the curbor, um, Doing a Cartwheel on a
beam and injuring your knee.
(05:12):
Like I recently did.
Bring to mind to that time inyour life when.
You have injured yourself.
Recall the instant you injuredyourself.
What were you doing?
Go back to the very moment.
(05:33):
That the injury happened.
And if you kind of zoom out andlook at yourself from a distance
as you're injuring yourself,Just take a moment to notice
what it is you see.
Notice the colors notice ifthere were other people around
the time of year.
Or anything else that you cansee about that time?
(05:59):
Then recall what you heard.
What sounds stand out to you.
Were their voices, where theirmechanical sounds.
Were there sounds of an athleticfield or nature sounds.
Soak in all of those sounds.
(06:22):
Recall them and turn the volumeup on them.
Just a little bit.
Bringing you back to this exactmoment in time.
And then finally.
Notice what it is you're feelingin that moment.
Remember what your intentionswere in the instant that you
(06:43):
injured yourself?
Were you feeling excited?
Were you feeling competitive,driven, frustrated, resentful.
What is it that you were feelingon a deeper level emotionally.
And you recall that instantwhere you injured yourself.
(07:08):
And consider in your mind theshould.
That enters your mind nowbecause of that injury.
Back all the way up to themoment of the should that comes
to your mind when you thinkabout the injury and it's about
six feet back metaphoricallyfrom the moment of the injury.
So it's that moment right beforethe injury.
(07:32):
Where now in your mind, youmight be shoulding on
yourself...
thinking you should have done itthis way, or you should have
moved this way or you shouldhave stopped or you should have
gone here instead.
What is that?
Should, that comes to mind.
Where is the guilt that you'retaking on because of this
(07:55):
injury?
What could life have looked likeif you instead had stopped?
Where your mind now, places thatshould.
Now, without dwelling on thatshould, because as you might
recall, one of my favoritethings to say is"you shouldn't
shit on yourself," just bring itto mind.
(08:21):
That my friends.
Is your edge.
Okay.
Deep breath in.
Exhale out.
And come on back.
Okay.
Go about your business.
I'm going to keep talking andyou can listen.
So your edge as I call it, whenI'm teaching yoga.
(08:42):
Might be.
To keep bettering yourself bybeing harder, stronger, faster,
or better, your edge is thatplace that pushes you out of
your comfort zone, but not somuch that it creates suffering.
Okay.
So if you push too far, youmight injure yourself.
Right, but if you don't push farenough or you don't push hard
enough, You're not going to makeany progress.
(09:04):
You're not going to do anythingthat's beneficial to you.
Okay.
So the edge is kind of a finebalance.
Now, sometimes it takes goingover your edge to dramatically
change the course of things, andthat's totally necessary at
times.
You'll know when life is callingfor those times, or maybe you
won't in the instance that maybeyou've injured yourself and now
your course of life has changeddramatically because of that
(09:27):
injury.
But that's not likely how youwant your day in and day out to
go, right?
You don't want to always beleaping in every single moment
of your life.
I think if you were constantlyinjuring yourself, then having
to slow all the way down to dothe recovery work and rebuild
before you could go back to fullstrength and full mobility.
(09:48):
That would get old really quick.
Like if you were constantlypushing so hard that you injured
yourself, then you had torecover.
Then you pushed so hard again,that you injured yourself again
and you had to recover.
That's a cycle that is no fun.
And, not a way that I would wantto be living my life.
I don't know how, how much you'dwant to be living your life that
way either.
(10:08):
But it'd be like living in astate of constantly pushing
yourself to burn out, thenhaving to recover, then burnout,
then recover and so forth.
Actually, this might soundfamiliar to you, right?
Like, do you do this in yourreal life?
You might be living in thisspace right now and you might
even be getting a little bittired of it.
I know I've been there in lifeand, um, I've done that.
(10:29):
So when you're pushing harderand doing more, it may not seem
like you're living in scarcitybecause you're doing so much and
you're pushing so hard andyou're always doing more.
And the word"more" and scarcitydon't necessarily go together.
Right?
But in all actuality, when youlive in this place of
(10:50):
overfunctioning or poweringthrough, no matter what, or with
the no pain, no gain mentality,you're living with a scarcity
mentality all the time.
Not feeling like or believingrather that there's ever enough.
You're doing the things thatkeep you comfortable mentally
and emotionally, even if itcomes from a place of physical
discomfort, because you areacting out of a place of fear,
(11:15):
fear that if you slow down orstop or do things differently or
don't give 110% effort, that youwill be judged.
That you will be judged, notgood enough that people will
look down on you, that peoplewill shame you.
And that may mean that you'reinjuring yourself or you're
(11:35):
making yourself extremelyexhausted and extremely tired,
and then having to recover ornot even having the energy to
actually do more because you areso burnt out.
That is actually living out of aplace of scarcity.
That's not your edge, that'sgoing beyond your edge.
It's not always a terriblething, because sometimes it does
take a bit of recovery andprocessing before you can dive
(11:57):
deeper into yourself, mentally,emotionally, and spiritually.
But, it also might be creatingsuffering in your life.
Whether that's physicalsuffering or mental, emotional
suffering, keeping you fromowning your power in thought and
action, thus keeping you stuckin the battle of feeling like
there isn't ever enough time,energy focus or whatever it is
(12:20):
that haunts you, that you don'tfeel like you have enough of.
There is the case to argue that,uh, extreme scarcity could be
used as a means of identifyingyour edge so that you can truly
discover your full potential andappreciate your abilities that
you do have.
So.
Think of the show lost.
This is something that myhusband was recently watching.
And, you know, they stripeverything back and go back to
(12:42):
having to do all of the work,have no creature comforts
whatsoever.
Or there's the example thatpeople will go on scarcity
retreats and will be left in thewilderness or placed into some
sort of.
encampment where that's the goalis to strip everything back so
that they can mentally,physically and perhaps
(13:04):
emotionally understand thedepths of who they are as a
person.
Think of monks living on aTibetan mountain side who have
completely isolated themselvesfrom all society in order to
awaken to a higher spiritualconsciousness Those are
instances where they're placingthemselves in extreme scarcity
as a means of identifying thishigher spiritual self.
(13:29):
Right?
And in order to maybe identifytheir full potential or in the
case of Lost well, win a wholebunch of money.
Right?
But, that's not.
Necessarily the edge that I'mtalking about.
It could be beneficial.
'cause how would imagine afterexperiences like that?
After stripping everything back.
You, you do have a profoundsense of perspective.
(13:53):
And things change.
There is some argument for that,that when you take your self to
this place of extreme physicalscarcity, That you indeed do
find the edge mentally,emotionally, and spiritually.
It's very warrior- like, andthat's the warrior- like
mentality to go harder, to gofaster, to go stronger.
(14:14):
Right?
In some of those instances,though, the emphasis isn't
necessarily on deepening yourspiritual awareness or to awaken
this higher version of yourself,unless it is in the case of like
the monks or some sort ofspiritual retreat that you're on
that moves through strippingeverything back physically in
(14:38):
order to get you to that higherplace spiritually.
And that's what we're going totalk about next week in the
episode...
how to move to your edge withoutactually adding to your to-do
list or pushing harder and goingfaster and being stronger and
tougher.
But for now, let's get back ontrack with finding your edge.
If you've stripped everythingback, like in these instances,
(14:58):
You definitely would be able tofind your full potential
mentally, physically, andemotionally, at least that's the
thought.
But it's so super extreme thatit's not doable by most people.
You know, it's not desirableeven to do for most people.
It's not living in the realityof the day in and day out.
And would that even be enjoyableor contribute to the harmony of
(15:20):
the connectedness of all things?
No, probably not.
So instead.
What if you would consider thatyour edge wasn't about doing
more or proving that you can doreally hard things or really
extreme things.
Now, as I mentioned.
Sometimes it's totally necessaryto go beyond your edge and to
get even more uncomfortable thananything you'd ever consider
(15:43):
doing by choice because it's inthose instances of scarcity,
even in smaller doses, that bighealing has to happen.
Right.
So when I quit my job andstarted this business, I had to
take this leap that like, whoa,I have to trust something higher
than me.
That was a huge edge, right?
That was a huge thing.
(16:03):
Maybe you've got instances likethat in your life.
Maybe it's buying a house orgetting married.
Maybe it's having children.
You, you take this big leap.
And then you have to trust, butthat's the edge that you're
willing to go to in order todiscover more about yourself in
order to understand more aboutyourself.
But it's in those instances thatwe often come back even stronger
(16:27):
and better than we ever couldhave imagined.
Right.
So in the cases of extremeinjury, even, you restrengthen
your.
Body.
So that it likely is strongerthan it was before after an
injury.
It's also in those instanceswhere we're given a chance to
expand our gratitude and faithin our lives.
(16:49):
To lean, not on our ownresources, but to trust in the
process of life.
Now, if you listen to thispodcast, you likely have a
tendency to over-function.
You might even be a bit of awarrior like myself.
And you might tend to do thingsjust because you want to make
sure that they're done right.
Or because it's just faster ifyou do them or because if you
(17:09):
don't do them, no one else will.
Or maybe because a little partof you just wants to prove that
you can actually do somethingand you can do something that's
super hard.
It could just be that it's justin your nature to be a warrior.
It is for me, as I've sharedwith you in other episodes.
And because I'm like this, Ialso have a natural draw to
better myself.
(17:29):
You might've realized this aboutyourself too, and that's not a
bad thing.
It's important to learn, to becontent in this moment with who
we are.
And at the same time, you canstill desire to transform and
change.
Right.
And that's where finding youredge comes into play.
So it is possible to be content,and to still know that there's
(17:54):
more possibility out there.
That there are other things thatyou can do to discover about
yourself and to transform.
And that's why knowing what youredge is in any given situation
in your life is important.
It may be different in work andin family, it may be different
in your personal life and yourrelationships with others.
(18:15):
The contentment that you have inthis moment is the happiness
part of this podcast, right?
And the harmony part of thepodcast means that you're
seeking to find the balance inthe rhythm of giving and
receiving.
It's celebrating both thestrength and the weakness and
understanding that it's acontinual process to find that
harmony.
(18:35):
And in order to do that, youhave to find your edge in
whatever area you want to bemore intentional in.
Which means you likely have toget out of your comfort zone.
Your edge isn't about beingcomfortable.
It's about being slightlyuncomfortable and then learning
to live with that.
Next week we're going to talkabout what that might look like
(18:57):
without adding to your to-dolist, because I know you are
busy enough that you don't needto add to your to-do list.
But instead.
Maybe find some things that youcan do to find your edge that
are not adding to the to-dolist, but instead taking away.
All right friends.
That's all I've got for you thisweek.
(19:17):
I'll see you next week.
In the meantime you've beenlistening to the health harmony
and happiness with Cathypodcast; I'm your host Cathy
Struecker cheers to cultivatingyour own version of health
harmony and happiness in yourlife
Flowing with your time, energyand focus, even when unexpected
(00:03):
things come up, it doesn't justmean floating through life and
letting things happen to you.
On the contrary, it meansintentionally becoming aware of
those places that make youslightly uncomfortable then
learning to adapt to themwithout going too far.
(01:19):
Hey friends.
Welcome to episode 70 of thepodcast.
Today, we are talking all aboutfinding your edge.
And this is something that Ihave talked about for years in
yoga and with teaching my yogastudents.
And I think that there'sdifferent ways to look at it as
well.
And so I want to bring it to youtoday in this episode, and
(01:39):
we'll, we'll talk about it, butin order to know where your edge
is, what your edge is, whichyou'll know after today's
episode, you first have to knowwhere you are right now.
And in order to do that, In mymind, the best way to do so is
to use the daily rhythmstracker.
This is a, I could say it's ahabit tracker of sorts, but it's
(02:02):
a tracker that helps you uncoverand discover where your rhythms
are.
Whether that is with the lunarcycle or your menstrual cycle or
your sleep rhythms, even, it'sjust helping you uncover all
those areas of your body andbring them to light so that, you
know, Maybe where you want toplace intention around
transforming your life orchanging some element of your
(02:25):
life.
So this episode is brought toyou by the daily rhythms
tracker.
And I will drop a link in theshow notes for you to download
your copy of that.
It's a great tool and resourcetoo.
Be able to begin.
Inviting more intentionalityinto your life.
And as I said, To begin to knowwhere you are right now, so that
(02:47):
you can find an edge that helpsyou transform.
Helps you get better in whateverarea you want to get better in.
Now we're going to talk aboutthat a little bit more later on
in the show, because.
When I say.
Oh, it helps you get better.
Like I'm, don't, I'm not meaningthat you always need to be
(03:08):
feeling like you need to bedoing better and that you are
not enough.
There's a balance there.
There's a, there's a harmonythere that is important to
consider.
And we're going to talk aboutthat later in the show for now,
though know that the dailyrhythms tracker is available to
you, and it's a great tool tohelp you find.
Where you are right now in life,help you uncover where you are
(03:28):
right now in life, so that youcan find an edge in life and,
and always be feeling your bestso that you can flow with your
time, energy and focus, nomatter where you are.
So as we begin today, I'm goingto begin with bringing you
through a little bit of a guidedmeditation again, or a guided
visualization.
Once again.
(03:49):
And in order to do that, find acomfortable place.
Or even, you know, if you'relistening to this while you're
driving, you can totally dothis, this thought work while
you're driving as well.
But if you really want to get intouch with your inner guidance
and, and just take a moment topause now would be the time to
do so.
So if you're doing somethinglike cleaning or, um, doing
(04:10):
something around the house thatyou can actually take a little
break from, just take a little,few minute break while I guide
you through this.
Okay, so deep breath in throughyour nose.
Exhale out, soften yourshoulders.
Take one more deep breath inthrough your nose.
Exhale out and soften.
(04:30):
And as you do bring to mind atime in your life.
When you have injured yourself.
Now.
You could easily do this withany momentous event in your life
that you wish perhaps would havegone differently.
But today, I'm just going to usethe example of.
(04:51):
An injury.
So recall the instant youinjured yourself.
This could be a big injury, orthis could be as simple as like
stubbing your toe or stepping ina hole and rolling your ankle
or.
Just stepping wrong off the curbor, um, Doing a Cartwheel on a
beam and injuring your knee.
(05:12):
Like I recently did.
Bring to mind to that time inyour life when.
You have injured yourself.
Recall the instant you injuredyourself.
What were you doing?
Go back to the very moment.
(05:33):
That the injury happened.
And if you kind of zoom out andlook at yourself from a distance
as you're injuring yourself,Just take a moment to notice
what it is you see.
Notice the colors notice ifthere were other people around
the time of year.
Or anything else that you cansee about that time?
(05:59):
Then recall what you heard.
What sounds stand out to you.
Were their voices, where theirmechanical sounds.
Were there sounds of an athleticfield or nature sounds.
Soak in all of those sounds.
(06:22):
Recall them and turn the volumeup on them.
Just a little bit.
Bringing you back to this exactmoment in time.
And then finally.
Notice what it is you're feelingin that moment.
Remember what your intentionswere in the instant that you
(06:43):
injured yourself?
Were you feeling excited?
Were you feeling competitive,driven, frustrated, resentful.
What is it that you were feelingon a deeper level emotionally.
And you recall that instantwhere you injured yourself.
(07:08):
And consider in your mind theshould.
That enters your mind nowbecause of that injury.
Back all the way up to themoment of the should that comes
to your mind when you thinkabout the injury and it's about
six feet back metaphoricallyfrom the moment of the injury.
So it's that moment right beforethe injury.
(07:32):
Where now in your mind, youmight be shoulding on
yourself...
thinking you should have done itthis way, or you should have
moved this way or you shouldhave stopped or you should have
gone here instead.
What is that?
Should, that comes to mind.
Where is the guilt that you'retaking on because of this
(07:55):
injury?
What could life have looked likeif you instead had stopped?
Where your mind now, places thatshould.
Now, without dwelling on thatshould, because as you might
recall, one of my favoritethings to say is"you shouldn't
shit on yourself," just bring itto mind.
(08:21):
That my friends.
Is your edge.
Okay.
Deep breath in.
Exhale out.
And come on back.
Okay.
Go about your business.
I'm going to keep talking andyou can listen.
So your edge as I call it, whenI'm teaching yoga.
(08:42):
Might be.
To keep bettering yourself bybeing harder, stronger, faster,
or better, your edge is thatplace that pushes you out of
your comfort zone, but not somuch that it creates suffering.
Okay.
So if you push too far, youmight injure yourself.
Right, but if you don't push farenough or you don't push hard
enough, You're not going to makeany progress.
(09:04):
You're not going to do anythingthat's beneficial to you.
Okay.
So the edge is kind of a finebalance.
Now, sometimes it takes goingover your edge to dramatically
change the course of things, andthat's totally necessary at
times.
You'll know when life is callingfor those times, or maybe you
won't in the instance that maybeyou've injured yourself and now
your course of life has changeddramatically because of that
(09:27):
injury.
But that's not likely how youwant your day in and day out to
go, right?
You don't want to always beleaping in every single moment
of your life.
I think if you were constantlyinjuring yourself, then having
to slow all the way down to dothe recovery work and rebuild
before you could go back to fullstrength and full mobility.
(09:48):
That would get old really quick.
Like if you were constantlypushing so hard that you injured
yourself, then you had torecover.
Then you pushed so hard again,that you injured yourself again
and you had to recover.
That's a cycle that is no fun.
And, not a way that I would wantto be living my life.
I don't know how, how much you'dwant to be living your life that
way either.
(10:08):
But it'd be like living in astate of constantly pushing
yourself to burn out, thenhaving to recover, then burnout,
then recover and so forth.
Actually, this might soundfamiliar to you, right?
Like, do you do this in yourreal life?
You might be living in thisspace right now and you might
even be getting a little bittired of it.
I know I've been there in lifeand, um, I've done that.
(10:29):
So when you're pushing harderand doing more, it may not seem
like you're living in scarcitybecause you're doing so much and
you're pushing so hard andyou're always doing more.
And the word"more" and scarcitydon't necessarily go together.
Right?
But in all actuality, when youlive in this place of
(10:50):
overfunctioning or poweringthrough, no matter what, or with
the no pain, no gain mentality,you're living with a scarcity
mentality all the time.
Not feeling like or believingrather that there's ever enough.
You're doing the things thatkeep you comfortable mentally
and emotionally, even if itcomes from a place of physical
discomfort, because you areacting out of a place of fear,
(11:15):
fear that if you slow down orstop or do things differently or
don't give 110% effort, that youwill be judged.
That you will be judged, notgood enough that people will
look down on you, that peoplewill shame you.
And that may mean that you'reinjuring yourself or you're
(11:35):
making yourself extremelyexhausted and extremely tired,
and then having to recover ornot even having the energy to
actually do more because you areso burnt out.
That is actually living out of aplace of scarcity.
That's not your edge, that'sgoing beyond your edge.
It's not always a terriblething, because sometimes it does
take a bit of recovery andprocessing before you can dive
(11:57):
deeper into yourself, mentally,emotionally, and spiritually.
But, it also might be creatingsuffering in your life.
Whether that's physicalsuffering or mental, emotional
suffering, keeping you fromowning your power in thought and
action, thus keeping you stuckin the battle of feeling like
there isn't ever enough time,energy focus or whatever it is
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that haunts you, that you don'tfeel like you have enough of.
There is the case to argue that,uh, extreme scarcity could be
used as a means of identifyingyour edge so that you can truly
discover your full potential andappreciate your abilities that
you do have.
So.
Think of the show lost.
This is something that myhusband was recently watching.
And, you know, they stripeverything back and go back to
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having to do all of the work,have no creature comforts
whatsoever.
Or there's the example thatpeople will go on scarcity
retreats and will be left in thewilderness or placed into some
sort of.
encampment where that's the goalis to strip everything back so
that they can mentally,physically and perhaps
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emotionally understand thedepths of who they are as a
person.
Think of monks living on aTibetan mountain side who have
completely isolated themselvesfrom all society in order to
awaken to a higher spiritualconsciousness Those are
instances where they're placingthemselves in extreme scarcity
as a means of identifying thishigher spiritual self.
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Right?
And in order to maybe identifytheir full potential or in the
case of Lost well, win a wholebunch of money.
Right?
But, that's not.
Necessarily the edge that I'mtalking about.
It could be beneficial.
'cause how would imagine afterexperiences like that?
After stripping everything back.
You, you do have a profoundsense of perspective.
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And things change.
There is some argument for that,that when you take your self to
this place of extreme physicalscarcity, That you indeed do
find the edge mentally,emotionally, and spiritually.
It's very warrior- like, andthat's the warrior- like
mentality to go harder, to gofaster, to go stronger.
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Right?
In some of those instances,though, the emphasis isn't
necessarily on deepening yourspiritual awareness or to awaken
this higher version of yourself,unless it is in the case of like
the monks or some sort ofspiritual retreat that you're on
that moves through strippingeverything back physically in
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order to get you to that higherplace spiritually.
And that's what we're going totalk about next week in the
episode...
how to move to your edge withoutactually adding to your to-do
list or pushing harder and goingfaster and being stronger and
tougher.
But for now, let's get back ontrack with finding your edge.
If you've stripped everythingback, like in these instances,
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You definitely would be able tofind your full potential
mentally, physically, andemotionally, at least that's the
thought.
But it's so super extreme thatit's not doable by most people.
You know, it's not desirableeven to do for most people.
It's not living in the realityof the day in and day out.
And would that even be enjoyableor contribute to the harmony of
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the connectedness of all things?
No, probably not.
So instead.
What if you would consider thatyour edge wasn't about doing
more or proving that you can doreally hard things or really
extreme things.
Now, as I mentioned.
Sometimes it's totally necessaryto go beyond your edge and to
get even more uncomfortable thananything you'd ever consider
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doing by choice because it's inthose instances of scarcity,
even in smaller doses, that bighealing has to happen.
Right.
So when I quit my job andstarted this business, I had to
take this leap that like, whoa,I have to trust something higher
than me.
That was a huge edge, right?
That was a huge thing.
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Maybe you've got instances likethat in your life.
Maybe it's buying a house orgetting married.
Maybe it's having children.
You, you take this big leap.
And then you have to trust, butthat's the edge that you're
willing to go to in order todiscover more about yourself in
order to understand more aboutyourself.
But it's in those instances thatwe often come back even stronger
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and better than we ever couldhave imagined.
Right.
So in the cases of extremeinjury, even, you restrengthen
your.
Body.
So that it likely is strongerthan it was before after an
injury.
It's also in those instanceswhere we're given a chance to
expand our gratitude and faithin our lives.
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To lean, not on our ownresources, but to trust in the
process of life.
Now, if you listen to thispodcast, you likely have a
tendency to over-function.
You might even be a bit of awarrior like myself.
And you might tend to do thingsjust because you want to make
sure that they're done right.
Or because it's just faster ifyou do them or because if you
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don't do them, no one else will.
Or maybe because a little partof you just wants to prove that
you can actually do somethingand you can do something that's
super hard.
It could just be that it's justin your nature to be a warrior.
It is for me, as I've sharedwith you in other episodes.
And because I'm like this, Ialso have a natural draw to
better myself.
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You might've realized this aboutyourself too, and that's not a
bad thing.
It's important to learn, to becontent in this moment with who
we are.
And at the same time, you canstill desire to transform and
change.
Right.
And that's where finding youredge comes into play.
So it is possible to be content,and to still know that there's
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more possibility out there.
That there are other things thatyou can do to discover about
yourself and to transform.
And that's why knowing what youredge is in any given situation
in your life is important.
It may be different in work andin family, it may be different
in your personal life and yourrelationships with others.
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The contentment that you have inthis moment is the happiness
part of this podcast, right?
And the harmony part of thepodcast means that you're
seeking to find the balance inthe rhythm of giving and
receiving.
It's celebrating both thestrength and the weakness and
understanding that it's acontinual process to find that
harmony.
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And in order to do that, youhave to find your edge in
whatever area you want to bemore intentional in.
Which means you likely have toget out of your comfort zone.
Your edge isn't about beingcomfortable.
It's about being slightlyuncomfortable and then learning
to live with that.
Next week we're going to talkabout what that might look like
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without adding to your to-dolist, because I know you are
busy enough that you don't needto add to your to-do list.
But instead.
Maybe find some things that youcan do to find your edge that
are not adding to the to-dolist, but instead taking away.
All right friends.
That's all I've got for you thisweek.
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I'll see you next week.
In the meantime you've beenlistening to the health harmony
and happiness with Cathypodcast; I'm your host Cathy
Struecker cheers to cultivatingyour own version of health
harmony and happiness in yourlife
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