FREE YOUR MIND. Such was the message emblazoned in big bold, gold letters across the t-shirt worn by a young runner I encountered while out for my daily walk. It was as if the universe wanted to make sure I got the message! I got it.
Actually it was my second walk of the day, which I took for the precise purpose of freeing my mind. It was feeling a bit muddled and overtaxed as I have spent the past few days trying to sort through some personal issues that have been troubling me as well as figure out next steps.
Hoping to clear my head, I set out for a walk with no idea where I wanted to go, I only knew that I wanted to, needed to, take a different route than the one I usually do and to simply choose in each moment which way to go.
It was kind of fun to set out with no pre-defined direction or route. Although I was still in a neighborhood that is familiar to me, located near my parents' home, the same one in which I grew up, I saw things I hadn't seen or noticed before.
Guess that's what happens when you free your mind. You allow yourself to notice something new, something different. You free yourself from what you think you know and allow yourself to be open to possibilities or experiences that you've never before considered.
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