Dulce vs. the park

Hey, It's Ramon —

Yesterday Raquel and I took Dulce to the park.

She spends most of her days at the house with us (all our business happens here, so she gets a steady stream of amazing people to greet at the door).

Which means a Saturday afternoon at a Los Angeles park, on a beautiful day... that's a different universe for her.

Kids running everywhere. Dogs of every shape and size. Smells, sounds, motion in every direction.

The second her paws hit that big open grass, she forgot we existed.

We couldn't get her to sit.

Couldn't get her to come when we called.

Couldn't even get her to look at us.

Her nervous system was lit up like a Christmas tree.

It took about 30 minutes for all that stimulation to level off in her system. And then, like someone flipped a switch... she sat. She listened. She came when we called.

Her body just needed time to catch up to the new environment.

Driving home, I realized something.

When you start moving toward a vision of your future that looks very different from the life you're living right now... you are Dulce in that grass.

The new relationship. The new income level. The business you keep picturing at 2am.

All of it lives in the unknown.

You can't predict what's going to happen there. And for a lot of us, somewhere along the way, the unknown got coded as risky.

So the moment you step toward it, your system goes crazy. You spin out. You freeze. You suddenly find 14 reasons to reorganize the garage instead of doing the thing.

If that's you, I want you to hear this: there is nothing wrong with you.

Your body is doing exactly what Dulce's body did in that park.

It's taking in a massive amount of unfamiliar information and sounding the alarm, because it can't find a file that matches this much novelty.

And just like Dulce... it levels off.

If you give it time. If you keep bringing it back to the open grass instead of avoiding the park altogether.

Because here's the thing.

Everything you desire is in the unknown.

The love, the money, the freedom, the version of you that you keep catching glimpses of... none of it exists inside the familiar. If it did, you'd already have it.

So the practice is simple (I didn't say easy).

Take your body into the unknown in small doses. Let it be like Dulce in the park. Don't shame it for flooding. Stay long enough for the stimulation to level off.

30 minutes in the grass.

That's how a nervous system learns that the unknown is where the good stuff lives.

We're taking Dulce back today.

I'd invite you to find your version of the park this week. One small step toward the thing that overwhelms you, held long enough for your body to settle.

Talk soon,
Ramon

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