What's Good???
Good Morning!!! Tuesday Gratitude Practice is here!!! How will you take what you are grateful for through the rest of your day? This isn't just about writing it down and sending it back… put it out there! Let the world feel your appreciation! Let's make a difference.
This only takes a few moments to do but gives to you for much, much longer. So put down whatever you are doing and take a couple of minutes for yourself. Every Tuesday morning I am going to ask you to write down 5 things that you are grateful for and email them to me (keep for yourself as well). What are you feeling gratitude around? Here are mine for this week:
My Website www.coachaina.com. Soreness From Great Workouts. My Bed. Growth. Goals.
There are no right or wrong answers. It is about what you are grateful for. It is proven that doing this once a week for three months (actually just 9 weeks) makes you happier, healthier, exercise more and less sensitive to perceived slights. You will sweat the small stuff less and focus on what really matters.
So… what are you waiting for???
Food for thought:
Being cold, unfeeling, impenetrable and aloof may seem like signs of security, that someone doesn't need other's approval or attention, yet it is more a sign of insecurity. When you don't feel loved, lovable or loving you aren't going to readily accept those things in your life. You push them away, pretending that they don't really matter (if you are good at spinning things) or you are depressed and present as desperate for anyone to give you attention and love. Those extremes are signs of imbalance. When you find the person who is basically a monk or the one that can never sleep alone you are looking at two sides of the same coin. Insecurity makes you feel uncomfortable, brings up feelings that you'd rather get away from and is deeply tied into self-worth, esteem and love.
When you try to manage around your insecurity instead of dealing with it head on, pain and suffering ensue; usually for you. Your feelings become distorted, because you are suppressing or distorting them yourself. Your relationships are usually not fulfilling; and not only with others, but with yourself. Insecurity is insidious and doesn't allow you to feel at ease at all. There is always some sort of lack, dissatisfaction or uneasiness in your world when insecurity is allowed to live within. Often those who are insecure are also victims in their world. They find that things happen to them, that they don't have a say over their journey; it is like they are on a rollercoaster and cannot get off.
Insecurity isn't a life sentence, not at all. You are absolutely capable of moving beyond it and finding your center. It takes work, vigilance and desire. Loving yourself is the cure. Not wearing nice clothing, working out, eating right, or getting rid of the dead weight (people, jobs or places) in your life isn't what I am talking about, only. Those things are key to self-love, by the way, but the deep stuff, the self talk, belief, understanding that you are here and meant to be here. That you matter, that you are a gift, a miracle. When you understand, not know, but understand and believe these truths insecurity is left without oxygen to breathe. When you recognize your divinity, your awesomeness you are no longer bruised by life's ups and downs, the fickleness of a lover, the dissatisfaction at a job. You take it as a learning moment and move on.
Keep on keeping on… your time is here and you are doing what you need to in order to reach your soul's goal in this world. I am proud of you.
xo a