Barriers to Personal Growth - Do you refuse to see them?

Are You Keeping Your Head in the Sand?

Look around. Denial is everywhere - about being in a lousy relationship; about how you treated someone; about how much money you have.

Are these barriers to personal growth? Being human means we are all pretty much subject to this state of mind. I've been told it is a protective construct. I'm sure it is and it is also appropriate to take my head out of the sand and look around when I don't need that protection any more.

What I need to fully take my head out of the sand and keep it out is about frequent exercise .  This is my barrier.

I'm 71. I have definitely arrived at the "use it or lose it" stage of my life. I've been warned and exhorted and the day has arrived. I am no longer get away in the no-exercise-but-my-body-works-pretty-well-anyway stage. Today while going for a walk, I had a teensy moment of experiencing an "old person's" step.

I don't know how else to describe it. For a short fraction of a moment as I was walking, my step felt a bit weak and a bit unsteady. I doubt if anyone could have seen it if they were watching but I have fine sensitivity about things happening in my body and I felt it. It was really there.

These days when I go a week without exercise, my balance  standing on one foot is a bit shaky, my arms and legs aren't as strong and I can tell that my posture is drooping. When I do exercise very frequently, none of the previous things is extremely true.

I've never been an athlete so I don't expect an athlete's effectiveness but I don't want an old person's ineffectiveness. I don't want to be one of those people with a walker or any other aid. I want to be fully functioning until the body needs to leave the planet.

What are your barriers to personal growth?

So, now that I've lifted the tightly held cover off of my hole in the sand, I'll ask you again, "What are YOU in denial about?"

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