If you don’t practice receiving, envisioning, and embodying what you most desire, a part of you will keep resisting it, and it will always be something you’re chasing. Your body has to learn what it feels like to be more relaxed, alive, energized, confident, joyful, playful, creative… Deliberate practice is a huge part of turning insights and knowledge into action. The more you bring yourself to these states intentionally, the faster they will become habitual ways of being. Practice being the person you are called to be. Intentionally give rise to the experiences you want to welcome. Don’t waste today’s opportunities by dwelling on yesterday’s regrets. Today is the only time you can make a change. Today you can start again and try something new. Today you can face the things you’ve been avoiding. Today you respond in new ways to the same old challenges. Today you can take a new route and see where it will lead you. Your mind will want to take you down the familiar path of thinking the same unhelpful thoughts, feeling the same negative feelings, and doing the same things you did yesterday, but you don’t have to follow it. Today can be a clean slate if you let it. What you tell yourself about yourself is a story, not a fact. It may feel like a fact because you’ve been attached to that story your whole life. You’ve kept that story alive with your thoughts and behaviors. If the story you’ve been telling yourself about who you are doesn’t feel empowering, you can change it. Don’t believe a story that is making you feel powerless. Your story can be re-written and at any point if you’re willing. You can decide on what you want the plot to look like and decide your role in the story. Always ask yourself first. Questions about your life are not for anyone but you to answer. Decisions are yours to make and if those decisions take you down the path you don’t like, you can always make another decision.
Ask yourself: What do I really want? What feels like the right choice for me now? What am I pretending not to know? Imagine as if you’re meeting yourself for the very first time and you have no idea what the answer is. Let the answer come to you instead of forcing it. Comparison is a sneaky soul sucker. When you compare yourself to others, you zoom in on one single aspect of someone’s life that you believe is better than yours. What you neglect in those moments are all the other aspects of their life you know nothing about. You don’t consider parts you don’t see, like their ups and downs, struggles, insecurities, and fears. Instead of focusing on things others have and you don’t, find gratitude for things you appreciate about your life. |
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April 2024
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