Tiny Steps (and a tracking challenge!!)

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Sometimes we can expect so much out of ourselves. Here is some encouragement to allow yourself to take "baby steps". There is also a tracking challenge here -- I'll leave an explanation at the bottom of the description!

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Music is "Yard Sale" by Silent Partner.

As for the tracking challenge, look carefully at the center of each circle. There is a piece of grass or dried plant there. Because the wind that day was very shifting, it was turning the plants in full circles around their center, leaving some very interesting circles for us to find!!!

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we love the forest where forest monks get to have incredible challenges and adventures and the place that our family calls home as you probably know there's a new member of our family and sometimes we'd like to take our adventures to new places Lake Superior is one of our favorites here we can roam the shores look out over an inland sea it seems to stretch on forever [Music]

this is the place where children and puppies can just be themselves they can engage and play freedom right in the sand to chase each other it's really no worries anymore but as we all know as we grow older whether we're dogs or humans people begin to expect things of us our training begins in our world much of this training were not even aware of and we can become products that cultural training without our consent yet we all have the power to become aware of that training process take the help as we do our training legenda we also had thoughts about the forest monks in the woods and their training we realized that with dogs with humans there's a progression that happens sometimes we can forget this we can expect ourselves to just get something right away we see this especially with mental challenges in the mental growth we seem to understand that if we decide we're gonna train for a marathon well it's gonna take months and months of training but often it's more difficult for us to realize that if we want to be able to meditate for a continued period of time and that can take a long time - learning to not expect ourselves to be olympic-level on the first day well if you have any kind of south perfectionist tendencies this can be a little difficult but it's an important thing to realize baby steps right on a rewilding journey or spiritual journey our journey towards higher fitness and mental palate whatever our exploration is we can learn to be patient with ourselves to take our time to honor the progress we've made then a progress often goes much faster then when we're trying to rush things and when were expecting the world of ourselves my wife Rebecca who always seems to have wonderful sayings she'll say when someone's trying to learn a new skill give it ten years sometimes this can free us up we're trying to learn a new kick or blog over trying to learn how to make us fire with a hand rub and it just won't come we can start getting so frustrated but when we step back and say hey I'm gonna give myself ten years to get this then we free ourselves up to learn

whatever it is that you're learning right now in your exploring there might be some value in this giving yourself time allowing those progressions don't expect the world of yourself today then try to avoid that self-punishing Cygnus they can so often come with trying to do a good job you can take our time learning we can take our time and grow it and then paradoxically will often grow faster than we think now if you've come here for the tracking challenge I think you're gonna have some fun

the beaches are of course filled with tracks tracks come and go the washing of the waves even the waves leave their own tracks if one looks carefully paintings of mountainous on the shore now some of the tracks are easy enough to identify of course fascinated with gem Bay's prints and the girls whole family leaving barefoot tracks everywhere but each is filled with all sorts of other strange tracks and some are more difficult to identify the challenge is what makes these perfect circle's these perfect arcs wherever we went that day we saw them written in the sand isn't there an old song circles in the sand well these are awfully perfect circles what's happened here

UFOs fairies in the night there are also other tracking lessons like not to just look at one single print and make a judgment about who left it this might look like a cat print it's fairly round

there's no registering clause now you might notice if you're well-versed in tracking there's only one anterior lobe in that plant or path but still you couldn't mistake it for a cat track even though djembe just left it a few seconds before we film this my friends thank you for being a part of our channel Rebekah and I my full whole family we're so grateful Communications we get to have with you the emails we receive the comments it's always a reminder that all around us there's wonder in this world love - ah [Music]

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