Jump into your next best life

Get ready to jump into your next best life

Are you ready to jump into your next best life ever? What stands in your way? Is it a hard and fast obstacle, or merely an illusory fear of your own disbelief and misgivings? Your best life is what you pay attention to and therefore, your best life is what you make of it.

Don’t all of us have some something we’ve been planning on doing, thinking about doing, hoping to do, wishing to have happen; don’t we all have that best life dream image firmly planted in the deep depths of our mind? When the kids graduate my best life will start. For now, I can’t have my best life; I’m helping the children finally settle down and get married.

Or maybe you believe you yourself have to be married first, before you have your best life. Certainly, you have to own your own house before your best life can begin. Whatever you thing you need before you can have your best life, it’s an illusion. Your best life is already here; your perspective is key. Today’s Grounded Relating Monday Music Challenge is encouraging all of us to step out, jump off, cease procrastination, and make a move into our own next best life.

Parkour: military discipline or mind shifting paradigm?

Nike says, “Just do it!” Madonna says, “Jump.” Her “Jump” video has crazy, crazy movements: people jumping off buildings, bounding off embankments, crazy stuff. Jumping moves that years ago no one would have even thought to try to do. But now it’s a thing. It’s called parkour and it is embraced as a both a military discipline and a form of exercise or training. And the people who “parkour” seem pretty fit, pretty happy, and pretty immersed in their own best life.

According to a 2007 weburbanist.com article with pictures the parkour practitioners or free runners discipline includes gymnastic like moves. The same article also stated:

“Many of the movements shown in pop cultural images and videos look simple but, perhaps unsurprisingly, are the culmination of a great deal of practice. Wall jumping, rolling and long-distance landings require careful shifting of body mass that, in turn, helps practitioners absorb impacts that seem impossibly dangerous.”

Check it out for yourself below, in Madonna’s official “Jump” video as posted on YouTube:

Land dreams and jump through emotional hurdles

Even as you watch the video, you can feel your energy levels rising. The idea of jumping around like that does get your blood pumping, I would imagine. The weburbanist.com article state that Parkour allows practitioners to “absorb impacts that seem impossibly dangerous.” Jumping into your next best life, with analagous training and discipline, may allow you to absorb seemingly dangerous impacts.

As you go through this week, remember Madonna’s “Jump” and use it as a launch point to contemplate how can you add the gestalt of parkour to your mental and emotional gymnastics out in the world of rolling with people, landing your long-distance dreams, or jumping through your own, and other’s emotional hurdles, in your day-to-day living.

Are you ready to jump? Get ready to jump.
Don’t ever look back oh baby.
Yes, I’m ready to jump, Just take my hand
Get ready to jump!

Understand the lay of the land with personality type maps

In “Jump” Madonna sings, “Life’s gonna drop you down like the limbs from a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see.” Jumping around does seem a great skill set to have if your environment, life, is swinging, swaying and dropping you down. And don’t forget to reference your handy intuitive life road maps for all these adventures: the Enneagram and the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI).

Once you start coordinating your rolling, landing and jumping of obstacles with the predicted geography of personality type maps like Myers Briggs (MBTI) and the Enneagram, you may find your previous firmly held resistances to jumping more easily navigated or, perhaps even, that those old forms no longer serve you. That realization, in itself, might be blood pumping!

Madonna’s “Jump” lyrics say:

“There’s only so much you can learn in one place
The more that you wait
The more time that you waste

Today’s Grounded Relating Monday Music Challenge, is saying, take a look at your resistances and start unraveling the personal, internal questions: Why don’t I just jump into my heart’s desire and longing? Use this song to stop the hesitation game and start living your life from that inspired place of jumping into the seemingly impossible, and landing your next best life.

Posted below are the full lyrics for “Jump” as written by Joseph Lee Henry, Madonna, Stuart Price, as posted on atozlyrics.com:

There’s only so much you can learn in one place
The more that I wait, the more time that I waste

I haven’t got much time to waste
It’s time to make my way
I’m not afraid of what I’ll face
But I’m afraid to stay
I’m going down my road and I can make it alone
I’ll work and I’ll fight till I find a place of my own

[Chorus] Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don’t ever look back oh baby
Yes, I’m ready to jump
Just take my hand
get ready to jump

We learned our lesson from the start
My sisters and me
The only thing you can depend on
Is your family
Life’s gonna drop you down like the limbs from a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see

[Chorus] Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don’t ever look back oh baby
Yes, I’m ready to jump
Just take my hand
get ready to jump

Are you ready?

There’s only so much you can learn in one place
The more that you wait
The more time that you waste

I’ll work and I’ll fight till I find a place of my own

It sways and it swings and it bends until you make it your own

I can make it alone [repeat]
(my sisters and me)

[Chorus] Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don’t ever look back oh baby
Yes, I’m ready to jump
Just take my hand
get ready to jump