What You Water Grows

What YOU Practice GROWS…

What you practice grows! Today let’s spend some time together really getting to know what is going on within the walls of the mind. How these thoughts contribute to the way life is being played out, the amount of Pleasure,

Happiness, Frustration and Anger experienced in each and every day of this experience called life we’re living! The way life is lived, is a direct reflection of what is being practiced.

Imagine being able to control the outcomes of experiences going on in daily life. The power to navigate through them based completely on the way thoughts are being practiced. Your thoughts creating your experiences…

An American Monk, looking at a woman, after listening to her words, trying to explain the frustration of not being able to sit in mindfulness, which is the calming of the mind. Imagine yourself sitting in total peace and stillness, complete quiet of in your head, he said something profound and very true. You’re not practicing mindfulness. You’re practicing judgment, frustration and anger about yourself and the process of mindfulness. How would his words make you feel?

Emotion… Is the trigger that gives charge to situations, the deeper the feelings the deeper the response. Your ability to see clearly and take direction from someone else is directly related to the heights of emotion building inside of you as the events are unfolding.

Perspective… Describes where you’re coming from at any given moment. Honestly, this one thing is why you can feel so hypocritical from time to time. As your mood shifts, so does your perspective of your situations, past or present. History is literally rewritten with this. The perspective from a wounded place is very different from the perspective of a whole and confident place.

I hope by now this concept is sinking in and you’re able to recall a situation or two, big or small doesn’t matter, both are of great value. Sometimes the smallest of actions has the biggest effect in life. Let your mind wonder, if you can, to other places in time that have triggering emotions attached to them. For example, the sudden flow of tears as you’ve retold a story of what happened in your past. Perhaps it is anger that rose up instead and knocked you off balance in the moment. We all have stories that trigger us.

If you’re living in those emotions, reliving them over and over as you retell the story, guess what? Those emotions are what are growing stronger in your reality!

Bold and Blunt and very True!

You become what you give your attention too. The energy that you send out is the energy that comes back. If you feel worthlessness a lot of the time, situations that create a feeling of undeserving will become more and more a part of your daily life. Perhaps its anger, you feel like you could just blow your top, yet bite your tongue and swallow it to keep the peace. You fume in silence and then wonder why things don’t work out very well most of the time. A pattern of habit has been created, and the return energy has no other choice but to bring back to you exactly what you’re giving out!

Reprogramming… Changing the core feeling and emotions to the situations unfolding in everyday life, this truly is to change the personality that you’ve created throughout your life. Becoming a different person! Perhaps, that’s why change feels so scary. We may not actually like who we are, and yet terrified of becoming someone else.

Self-Concept… The most important aspect of life, when navigating in the world around you, who you show up in the world as depends greatly on how you see yourself. The codependent, the narcissist, the warrior, always pleasing, always taking, always fighting, which one are you? More likely the wounded, the one who has taken it and not taken the time to process the feeling that come with the scars of battle. The categories are the places we fall into in order to navigate through life without feeling our pain.

Changing your belief about yourself, seeing yourself as worthy, deserving, loved and loving is the start of healing. Realizing situations don’t matter. As the opinion of yourself changes, so will the situations that come into your life. Scary, maybe… but, worth it! Living life on your terms, means loving yourself first and that means putting yourself first, not arrogantly, but confidently, with respect for yourself and others.