How’s your life going?
Do you have fulfilling, rewarding days regularly?
How’s your relationships, work, health and finances?
Are you enjoying abundance in all areas?
Sadly, many people are unhappy and stuck in old habits and patterns, still operating on ‘rote’ according to what they learnt from the people around them in early childhood and beyond. People often don’t know they can change and make changes, let alone how to begin.
Earnie Larsen, a highly respected American Minister of Religion turned Counsellor, coined this apt phrase.
“What you live with you learn, what you learn you practice, what you practice you become, what you become has consequences.”
Earnie, now (sadly) deceased, helped countless people by teaching them about how their deeply embedded early conditioning affected them as adults – and how to work a program of change.
Albert Einstein quoted: “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it”. (or something to that effect). I know, I’m full of quotes today but I find you can learn so much from others – especially these teachers of wisdom who accomplished many great things during their lives.
Henry David Thoreau in Walden wrote – “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”. (I’m sure he was speaking of humans in general, obviously not just men).
Anyway, back to Earnie Larsen and how we’re conditioned as children.
Practicing Mindfulness is one of the most powerful methods of discovering just how much of your life you’re living according to habit and how much you’re actually choosing to be your best self as you go through your days.
How much are you operating from beliefs given to you by others? Are they really your beliefs or are you perhaps too afraid to examine them and work out whether you want to keep them – or not? Do they serve you well or hinder you in your growth towards who you want to be and what you’d like to accomplish? Are you too frightened to make desired changes (and change yourself and your behaviours) because of what others may think?
Fear of change is perfectly normal and ok, but remaining stuck and not experiencing your life to the fullest can be a form of ‘quiet, or not so quiet, desperation and can bring much suffering and unhappiness.
Practicing Mindfulness and Meditation can help you to fully notice your thoughts, feelings and beliefs and then gently support you as you change into who you’d like to be and what you’d feel happier doing with your life.
One day at a time, learning to be fully here and present in each moment, with gratitude for all that is and all that’s still to come ensures that indeed, Every Day Gets Better.
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