Just Take the Helicopter

This is a blog post to revisit anytime you are feeling clunky, or like you are trudging up a mountain and moving so, so slowly and you are looking for speed and efficiency.

Choose Your Adventure

Imagine you are heading up a mountain. You trudge one heavy foot after another. It is slow and tedious. You do not enjoy your time walking up the mountain. The wind is blowing in your face, and the steps feel like sludge.

Now imagine you see a helicopter in a field next to you. The pilot waves to you and you wave back. You trudge along. Then you stop, and wonder if he could give you a ride. He did wave after all, so he must be friendly.

You approach the pilot and ask about the helicopter. Where he is heading? how long he has been flying? He asks you about your journey, and you say “to the top of the moutain”.

He smiles and says that’s where he is going, and then offers you a ride.

You pause and wonder if you should. You don’t know this man. But it is windy, and you have a long way to go. Adventure never scared you and your gut gave you a feeling that this was, in fact, all right.

You get in the plane and experience a miraculous view, and in 20 minutes- you are at the top. You feel a little queasy from the choppy air, but you hold tight and focus on your breath.

When you get to the top, the air is more crisp than you could have ever imagined. The grass is green, and the sun feels so warm and inviting oy our shoulders. You look around and smile, happy that you trusted the man and decided to get on the helicopter.

Back To Reality

At any moment in your life, you can decide that you want to take the helicopter. It is always accessible to you. But there are a few things you need to know before you get on the helicopter.

Where You are Going

In order to get in a helicopter, you’ll have to tell the pilot where you are going. Now this doesn’t have to be anything super specific. If you trust the pilot, you can always say dealers choice, but if you have a specific location that will make it a lot more simple from getting to point A to point B. You can always say something like “somewhere with daffodil blooms”, and the pilot can take you.

Take this time to assess whether you are going in a direction you actually want to go in. A helicopter isn’t of much use, if you are not going in the direction you want to be. No need to go somewhere faster that you don’t want to go in.

Ask For Help

You can never get in a helicopter, if you don’t strike up a conversation first. Sure, there might be a cold offering, but most of the time you have to make sure you are in the room for the invitation. Do you know how you would get an invitation on the helicopter? Are there people in your life you take helicopters frequently?

Like our dear patron saint Lin Manuel Miranda wrote in the smash Broadway hit “Hamilton”, “ I want to be in the room when it happens”. Make space for magic and surprises to happen when you let yourself take a chance. It becomes so easy to forget how wild our technology and resources have gotten. Gain some clarity, curiosity, and certainty to fucking send it!!!

Don’t Let Your Fear of Heights Stop You

Fear is something that gets a bad wrap. Fear is a survival mechanism that is around to keep us alive. However, humans have gotten so good at being alive that millennials are expected to live well past 100. Say what you want about Gary Vee (yes we will go there), but his message of how time is on your side is one of the most beautiful messages circulating.

Time is on your side. You get to bend time, you get to mold time. If you fuck up royally, you get to course correct. You get on the helicopter, and your like oh shit I’m going to throw up. You can either puke and rally, (think: somatic release), or loose your shit.

The calmer you stay as you make these massive quantum jumps in your reality, the more you are telling your body that this is normal and good. That you are safe. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Choose Your Path

Whether you take the scenic path of walking up the mountain, or you decided to take the hitchhike up with the helicopter- these are all energetic opportunities available to you. Make whatever ever way you want to traverse up to you. Always know that you are never stuck, and there is always some type of energetic helicopter available to you.