The Daily Do

What if you got the same comfort from a good habit as from a bad one? So much of comfort seeking is in the repeating of what you’ve done. The association of ‘ah, that’s better’ can be linked to many things, and if they are actually making things better then you’re prospering. The warm feeling of relief from stress and strain can come from something good for you done again and again. It’s the repetition that brings comfort not what you’re repeating, so find comfort in a habit that also helps the life your leading.

Self criticism leads to feeling low and blocks our higher selves, our inspiration and energy towards harmony, success and health. Beating our selves up creates tension and a sense of lack and before we know it we’re grabbing at life trying to claw our best selves back. Shake it off, right now, feel love surging in your veins, you are all you’ll ever need, so go gentle on the reins. Give yourself a break, put the stick down for a while, go easy on self criticism, let it go and smile.

Actual events never feel as bad as the fear we felt before. How often do we do things we feared only to immediately want to do more? Fear is always worse than what is actually happening, accept that you’ve handled every situation that you feared in life before. It won’t give up or learn to fade but we can learn it’s truth, that it’s trying to stop reality that will not frighten you.

Listening to understand instead of talking to be understood will completely change your relationships and always for the good. To be heard and understood, is that not what we’re all looking for? Be that for someone else and you open up the door to deep connection and synergy; at home, in love, in business, be the one that’s listening. 

Joseph Campbell famously advised us to “Follow Your Bliss” but, following many people’s meditative misinterpretation, wished he could rewrite it to say, “Follow Your Blisters”. Hard work isn’t hard if you see it’s proper role as the outward evidence of what is in your soul. Even stuff you don’t like doing can fold under this light, see it all as easy, let your touch be light.

Your sense of purpose is the balm that soothes the tough stuff that must get done, the oil upon the wheel when your life won’t seem to turn. Your 'why' is the source of that extra mile that you must go, hold it in your heart and your energy will flow. Why you want to grow is the coal of action’s fire, find your 'why' and you can conquer challenges with desire.

What to do when freedom reveals that 'Yes, you’re truly free!'? So much choice can clutter the point to simply be. This isn’t rain on the parade, it’s watering the ground from which grows all the good in you in this new life that you’ve found. A little time alone to hear yourself and breathe, then write down what is in your heart, let go and feel at peace. 'Wherever you go, there you are' and let this place be your rock, the touchstone of your inner strength to then give it all you’ve got. 

Here’s the upward spiral in it’s really simple form. First find some stillness inside and let that become your norm. Hear your inner voice then this gives you direction and the courage to back your choice. So from your inner desires you’ve made small steps that way, then you reflect at bedtime that you’ve done your best today. Repeat this in the morning and you’re up, up, up and away!

We all know that when we feel good we make choices that move us forward, this is the upward spiral I talk of and it can start with just one word. Listen now, picture and really feel the words I’ll say, watch then as you shape your mind and let good thoughts change your day. Words are just the window dressing of the thoughts inside, and we can choose to use these words to influence our minds.

I know you doubt yourself, that’s something that we all do, but the true marker of your progress is how often you push on through. And that means through discomfort, past imagined barriers of fear; the more you learn to move through these feelings, the more they disappear. On the other side of fear exists all you really are, and it’s right here, right now inside you, if you learn to push through feeling scared.