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I had an awesome experience during my work out today. I’m doing this thing that’s part Tai Chi, part Yoga and part Pilates, and I suck at it. There is no one less flexible than me. But it’s all good though, because even after just two sessions I’m feeling a little more bendy and stretchy.

Anyway…

At the end of the session we always have a bit of a meditation/cooling down thing, which involves lying very still for 8 minutes, focusing on your breathing, and in my case, desperately try to tame the 2567477685 thoughts that are racing through your head at that very moment. Our instructor told us to focus on whatever aches we had. I had a sore knee, and my arms were feeling a little overstretched.

And for some reason I imagined those sore spots to be balls of white energy, that I could pick up, and then blow apart and away like a horse flower. So the little seeds of ache flew away, and I actually felt better.

But that was when the weird/awesome stuff happened. I looked at myself, blowing the horseflower shaped ache away, and I saw myself as I was when I was a child. It made me feel very warm and fuzzy inside. Now you have to understand, I was a great kid. I was the kind of kid who’d smile at you when you had a shit day, simply because she thought frowns were for losers. I had little red curls, freckles and blue eyes. Needless to say, no one could resist the charm of me.

Apparently, neither can I. Young me calmed me down instantly, stopping the gazillion thoughts in my head. When we had to ‘come back’ to the world, little me smiled and waved at me.

I think the only reason why this was so vivid is because I’m still in nano-mode, and everything my mind comes up with is vivid, but it just felt very real and great all the same.