Greetings,
Today is about establishing in your head how amazing you've become and how far you have successfully traveled. Let's get happy about it!
"It doesn't make sense to be unhappy about who you are, when today you are who you wanted to be last time you were disappointed in yourself."
To counteract our dissatisfaction, we need to cement in a view of appreciation. We need to put in place a constant conversation with ourselves, assuring us of our greatness no matter what the complaining mind has to say or how it makes you feel.
It's a challenge to balance the desire to be different with self-acceptance in the now. Unfortunately we often turn self-observation and self-inquiry into self-punishment.
This is where the condemning aspect of the complaining mind comes in. It's one thing to recognize you need to change something and another thing to point out how awful you are for being this way, or stupid or worthless or any of the other ridiculous slanders our critical mind throws out at us. You just can't believe it when it speaks to you like this and you're going to have to start practicing admiring yourself. You have to recognize and reaffirm your wonderful qualities as consistently as your complaining mind is habitually defeating you.
Again, it's not like the complaining mind is trying to defeat you and has bad intentions to destroy you. It's just programmed to think self-punishment is what it's going to take to get you to change. We've been trained to motivate ourselves with bad feelings just so we can find relief! Unfortunately it rarely even works and just leaves us miserable.
The goal is a beautiful marriage between present moment satisfaction, and holding a grander vision for the future. Love and patience for your self need to be as much a part of any discipline as making the change itself. Instead of badgering ourselves into growing we can love ourselves and empower ourselves into change.
If we complain about the complaining mind and we condemn the condemning mind, we've lost the game and have been tricked again. Punishing "anything" feeds our shadow, even if it is the shadow itself we are condemning. We have to stay on our hearts. To never hold love back from yourself again would be the most significant contribution you could ever make toward your own evolution.
So lets' do this! We're very good at looking at what what isn't good enough so practice appreciating your worth. Many of the things about you that are so wonderful, valuable and admirable, you are taking for granted.
So today, take time and contemplate the aftermath of the transformation you have already made and celebrate who you've become. Think back and see how you have already woken up. Please make this a another one of your daily practices. It's worth it. The benefits will exponentially outweigh the effort of the 5 or 10 minutes you take.
There is always another day to get better... And if not, it would be a shame for you to be unhappy about who you are, when today you are "who you wanted to be" last time you were disappointed in yourself.
Please take the time to tell a story about how cool you already are. Tell a friend about it. Actually go out today and reward yourself with some pleasure to celebrate yourself. You deserve it!
Peace to you,
Bryan
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