Law of Attraction Magazine October, 2015 | Page 46

much certainty can dull us, life can lose its edge, it?s excitement.
Predictability creeps up on us slowly and unknowingly we slip into a semi
happy, semi alive state, operating on semi autopilot. We expect and
anticipate certain things will happen as they always do and so only need
to half engage. Does any of this ring true?
Mind you, uncertainty can be uncomfortable. As we step out of our
known world we may have to face a fear or two or change an opinion. But
believe me the rewards are worth it ten-fold.
I started breaking free of my own sleep walk through life with tiny steps.
I began by creating ?everyday adventures?by Simply doing ordinary
everyday things differently.
For years I had toast for breakfast so I started to have porridge. I always
got up at 7am ready to dash out the door with a coffee in my hand, I
changed and got up at 6am with time to take a 30 minute walk or in the winter sit in my warm bathrobe with a
cup of hot chocolate and watch the sunrise.
I drove a different way to work, I added a splash of
color to my black wardrobe, when I went out for dinner
I intentionally chose something on the menu that I had
never eaten before, I sought to make friends with
someone from a different culture, religion or country.
Try it, it?s easy and it will start to reconnect you with
that wonderful exhilarating tingle that life outside
your comfort zone can bring you life
My 15 years on the frontline as a humanitarian worker
has catapulted me into smashing through many of my
fears, assumptions and expectations.
Until the age of 39 I had always taken ordinary,
relatively safe, forms of transport; a car, a bus, a plane ? my time in Tibet changed all of that. It was summer
and the rivers were pounding, high and fast from the nearby Himalayas. For hours and hours the caravan of
donkey and yak plodded slowly alongside the river, weaving up and down the hills. Being in the last third of
the caravan my vision was obscured by the heavily laden animals but the commotion up ahead made me pull
myself up and peer over the top.
To my horror the lead yak had plunged straight into the river. My
mind raced ahead and my fearful brain leapt into action, ?What are
they doing? Are they crazy? Where is the bridge??I saw myself
already washed away, disappearing downstream caught up in the
torrent.
I looked around to see who I could alert that this was suicide, to
warn them against it, but no one was paying any attention and as we
were all tied together, if the first animal was in the icy cold water,
we would all be soon. There was nothing I could do,
I had to face my fear, let go and quietly I said a few prayers. It was
soon my turn and the freezing water lapped against the shoulders of
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