Practice being gentle with yourself and others.
Speak kindly and learn to speak to yourself in kind ways.
Care lovingly for your body.
Bring attention to your mind and learn to bring it calm.
Listen and care for yours and other’s feelings.
Ask for what you truly need.
Do nice and healthy things for yourself.
We are all a part of this universe and we are worthy of love.
Why do we do often need to suffer so much before we are fully prepared to listen to life and the depth of our truth?
For some reason, we humans so often seem to need a state of crisis to propel us into our growth.
Is there anything you know you need to listen to that you just keep pushing down or to the side?
It is important to pay attention to these core calls. When we don’t, often we find there are consequences.
Learn to listen and to trust yourself. And when you don’t, forgive yourself, learn and take it forward.
Wisdom allows understanding and enables respect.
A wise person prioritises the health of their loving relationships over the need to be right or impressive.
No thought, good or bad, can truly define who we are.
We are more than our mind.
The experience of being able to observe our thoughts and our mind proves that who we really are cannot be narrating or viewing from inside the mind.
Practice observing automatic thought patterns, and look into them. Discern what is life enhancing and what isn’t.
We can’t stop thoughts from coming, but we can learn to choose what thoughts we are going to follow and use.
Stress and trauma has a way of taking us out of our bodies.
With this we often don’t know how to listen to how we feel or what our body needs.
Healing involves coming into our body, breath and our willingness to listen within to ourselves.
Yoga and other forms of body work have been proven as the most powerful way to come back into ourselves and into our wholeness.
When we can be consciously connected in our breath and embodied experience, we can be there for ourselves like no one else can.
When we don’t look closely at our patterns and our part in things, they have a way of repeating themselves until we listen.
If we are continuously in our mind, living for the moment ahead of us, or the future life we are creating, we miss the experience of life itself.
Life can only be in the present moment. It can only be right now and right where we are.
Of course it is important to have a vision and goals and to make plans. But to enjoy any achievement, we can only do so through being present.
How much do you live in your idea of things and of potentials, or of how you expect your life and relationships to be, and how much do you live in the reality of what is?
We often miss the aliveness of the simple things, like a daisy, because we label it with our mind and don’t take it in as a wonder and a mystery and a miracle of life. Reality is full of absolute magic, beyond the conceptual level of viewing.
Also, so often early in relationships we are not fully seeing the other person with all their human picture, we are seeing what we want to see or how we want them to be. We project our fantasy.
We can so easily dismiss the red flags, because they don’t fit with what our mind wants.
We can learn to be mindful of this. To listen to ourselves.
We can move in the direction of what we want.
We can focus on good additions and gain help to expand our ideas around more of them.
We can become more aware of how much we ruminate in our thoughts, in ways that are hard on ourselves and where we are stuck in judging ourselves for the things we are doing that we don’t want.
Where we place our attention and thinking is what we tend to create more of.
We can use the power of this more consciously.
When we are our integrity and we know our true self, we can observe the defensiveness of our ego.
The more we identify and practice observing our reactive, protective or insecure patterns, beliefs and thoughts, we learn to step back and sit in the deeper space of our being.
Our being; our conscious awareness, cannot ultimately be defined, even by our own thoughts, let alone anyone else’s. We are soooo much more than any thought we might have.
Resting in being, there is nothing to defend.
RATNA DYER 