The Daily Do

Our ego likes a role to play, a character, so choose one that you like. In very simple terms, our ego will identify with what gets the most attention, so let’s make sure we are aware and choose an image of ourselves that also brings us satisfaction. Your ego would rather you were someone, anyone, than a no-one, at any price; it likes a role to play, a character, so aspire to one you like.

You’re doing all right, in fact you’re doing really well. Forgive yourself your little faults, cut the anchor of shame and guilt, let them go and sail. Sometimes what you’re not looms larger than all the things you are, and on those days we don’t heal and grow, we shrink to fit the scar. You're doing great, forgive yourself for what you're not and feel good with all you are.

Picture now a festive season where you’re happy in yourself, peaceful, laughing and celebrating the joy of warm contentment, giving and helping others freely to enjoy this special time of year. Imagine a pressure gauge inside your mind, a tension meter that measures more or less, you can lower that internal grip before the seasons stress. Much like running long distance you can’t just whip the trainers on, a truly joyful winter time can start soon in short meditation.

Gut feeling isn’t superstition it’s superintuition, tune into this super power and let it form your vision. Your vision of what’s right for you exists in you right now, it’s your job to listen and bring it out into the world. Listening to your gut feeling or instinct isn’t leaving things to chance, it’s not overthinking problems but hearing the answers we already have. We are deeply tuned to nature, and it’s in our nature to feel that.

In a world of memes and online quotes we can think the reading is the act, but better that we take one word and fill our hearts with that. Love, alone, felt and focused on in quiet eyes closed peace, will impact you more than a thousand quotes or inspirational books you read. And I throw my words on the fire too as mere directions that you may chart, focus on one word of power; love, gratitude, courage or wellbeing, the library of your heart.

Your happiness is here and now, in today’s contented glow. We can’t take happy with us but we can learn what makes us so. The gateway to your passion is to taste and keep on tasting, you have no idea what dormant talents lie in you just waiting or friends that you’re about to meet, new horizons to be explored; we don’t have to live in yesterday nor have to close it’s door. 

How are you? There’s nothing wrong with asking yourself this and then really finding out, the answer directs you to the important things you can do something about. Keep close to the answer and use it as your guide. "How Am I?" asked in love and fearlessly will clear the path again, being honest with yourself is your destiny’s greatest friend.

Would you take something if it helped with stress, anxiety, blood pressure and mood? Take it if it helped you focus, boosted your immune system, and rewired your brain to feel good? I’m sure you would so go ahead and take it, and this what to take is TIME. Time to breathe whilst on your own, deeply in and out, a few minutes meditation, the scientific sort you out.

Unhappiness has a need to be heard and understood, that’s why people trying to cheer us up is often just no good. If you feel prickly when someone tries to help you to let go, is it that you’re really saying, "No, no you need to know! Poor me is suffering, see my struggle, join me in the pain, let’s relive the agony one more time, then again and again."? Defiance to suggestions as to how you could feel better is a definite sign that you’re wallowing, and you need suggestions more than ever.

Dread of dark nights, spinning in our mind, means we begin to avoid bedtime but face it with a plan in mind and you’ll turn out your light. And sleep comes deep when unafraid, when you’ve walked right at fear with a bedtime routine, give your heart and mind the message that you’re calm and your serene. In these actions of intention you’ve seized the baton from your fear, face your restless nights and restlessness just disappears.